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An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City are denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life because they cannot read.To ce...

For nearly 50 years Josephine Marcus Earp was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, the legendary hero of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As an indep...

Beyond fathering a nation, founding a great university, and leaving a legacy as an architect and inventor, Thomas Jefferson was a forefather of mod...

Like so many others in the late 1930s, the young black Americans who would become known as the Tuskegee Airmen were eager for military service as the...

Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...

Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’...

Two of youth literature’s best-known authors discuss their new books—Daniel Handler’s Why Is This Night Different from A...

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich worries that America’s economic recovery is bypassing most Americans. Adjusted for...

You’re scheduled to give a business presentation, pitch investors, or deliver a wedding toast. And you’re petrified. You’re simply not cut out for...

Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original and unique retelling of the Lewis Carroll cl...