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Slavery isn’t just a sin of the past. Today, the United Nations’ International Labour Organization estimates that more than 40 million victims of huma...

Less than a week before the June 18 general election, the two candidates to succeed outgoing Kansas City Mayor Sly James face off on the issues and co...

Barry Strauss stands as one of today’s foremost classicists, his exhaustively researched and accessibly written books opening window...

What if your class took a field trip to the moon … and you missed the space bus back to Earth? Local author and illustrator John Hare...

The Kansas City Repertory Theatre...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...

In an extraordinary community forum, local leaders and national experts examine the troubling patterns of violent discriminatory policing and how, col...

The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...

You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo...

The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped defeat...