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Wednesday, May 1, 2019
6:30pm
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A young American flautist, Edwin Rist, broke into the British Museum of Natural History in Tring in 2009 and made off with nearly 300 bird skins. Biza...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6:30pm
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The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satisfac...
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Inger Burnett-Zeigler counts herself among the many today who wear the badge of strong Black woman with honor. All too often, the estee...
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They came from different neighborhoods and ran with rival gangs on Chicago’s West Side. Improbably, the group of young men found promise and common...
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Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.
Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...
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“Everything can’t be the most important thing.” Using her own storie...
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Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...
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Marking this year’s observance of Banned Books Week from September 18-24, a panel of veteran librarians from Kansas City-area libr...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6:30pm
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An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30pm
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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...