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Alice Randall, seen widely as one of the most significant voices in contemporary African American fiction, was born in Detroit and can attes...

Les Payne’s new biography of Malcolm X already has made waves, revealing a clandestine meeting between the incendiary civil rights activist and an...

Stephanie Powell Watts' first novel is a story about the things in our past that haunt us, that continue to call and constrain us from movin...

Drawing from his penetrating new book Know Your Price, the Brookings Institution’s Andre Perry joins...

It has been 10 months since the confetti fluttered in south Florida’s Hard Rock Stadium, since the Kansas City Chiefs ended their fitful, half-cent...

What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday, w...

While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest...

Princeton historian and author Nell Painter gave up a decorated, 30-year career in academia to pursue a lifelong love of art, emergin...

In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent...

It was inevitable that the bawdy, alcohol-infused culture of 19th-century Kansas City would draw the ire of social reformers and prohibi...