Want a read on the progress women are making in society, on where they once stood or stand now in their centuries-long struggle for equal access and o...

Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t...

Established as a general holiday in 2021, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans on June 19, 1865, following...

Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in the Un...

The latest pick of the Library's FYI Book Group, in partnership with the Kansas City Star, is Hanif Abdurraqib...

Passionate about pentameter? Really into rhyme and rhythm? Are you a stanza stan?  The Library can help you get well-versed during Nation...

The Kansas City Public Library partners with The Kansas City Star on the latest FYI Book Group discussion:  Sarah Smars...

Nothing comes between readers and their books. Not even a pandemic. “One of the first things the Library did after closing our physical locations in r...