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The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the acclaimed 1997 emotional drama...

Frido Mann’s reverence for democracy draws from family history. The psychologist and author grew up in southern California, where his...

We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrators...

What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...

Kansas City engages in educational, cultural, and commercial exchanges with a dozen sister cities across the globe, in part through the annual Kansas...

Drive through the Mississippi Delta today, and you’ll find it dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Most c...

The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his first...

He has been the face of Kansas City for eight years. Now, as Sly James completes his second and mandatory final term as mayor, he loo...