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Learn about all the requirements for becoming a poll worker. Participants will learn about the various poll worker categories: judges, voter assist...

Reporters with ABC television affiliate KMBC 9 have spent a year studying the consequences of both the unchecked pile-up of trash in some parts of Kan...

We want our cities to be more affordable, more equitable, more vibrant and sustainable. Among the necessary fixes, former New York City planner Nolan...

Understanding the centuries-old Arab-Israeli conflict and the crisis that now grips the Gaza Strip is not easy. In a special and timely event, militar...

Four former Kansas City mayors gather for the first time in an extraordinary forum co-presented by the Citizens Association of Kansas City...

Six days before the pivotal midterm elections of 2022, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman examines one of the most complicated and controversia...

The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...

Amid the Library’s Big Read 2022, a two-month celebration of reading and poetry, Kansas City poet Glenn North conduc...

Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert...