Patricia Smith’s roots in poetry trace to a blues club in Chicago, where she took the stage “hoping that I had something to say that...

Two years before a partisan duel over charges of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the issue exploded – in actuality – in the wake of a c...

Writer and activist George M. Johnson joins Kansas City activist Justice Horn in discussing Johnson's 2020 memoir on...

Five days before the country immerses in Super Bowl LVI, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein examines the mixed legacy of racia...

Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses...

Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast....

Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e...

By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a...

The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy....

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...