Less than a week before the June 18 general election, the two candidates to succeed outgoing Kansas City Mayor Sly James face off on the issues and...

Slavery isn’t just a sin of the past. Today, the United Nations’ International Labour Organization estimates that more than 40 million victims of h...

The Library concludes its examination of immigration in America with a look at pop culture’s role in the assimilation of newcomers to our country—a...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, named one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time magazine, among others,...

“To me,” Molly Peacock says, “a sonnet makes impossible emotions possible.” The revered poet, biographer, essayist, and short fiction...

Revered poet Molly Peacock conducts a morning poetry workshop in the Plaza Branch’s lower-level Cohen Center. The session, Sc...

The Library continues its examination of immigration in America with a screening of the film My American Girls: A Dominican Story and disc...

Displaced from their home in Belarus during World War II, a then-teenage Gitla Doppelt and her family joined bands of fo...

In its day, there may have been no more stimulating place than London’s Turk’s Head Tavern on a Friday night. There in the mid- to late 18th century,...

The Library continues its examination of immigration in America with a screening and discussion of “The Golden Door,” the opening episode of the do...