Plaza branch will open late at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4.
Signature Event
March 13, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of Nina Simone: Four Women to the Kansas City Public Library’s...
Signature Event
July 14, 2018
10:30am
The Library and The Kansas City Star focus the latest installment of their Java with Journalist series on the Troost Avenue...
Signature Event
September 14, 2017
3:30pm
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen visits the L.H. Bluford Branch for a special afternoon discussion of her new book, CU...
Signature Event
July 1, 2017
11:00am
It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...
Signature Event
October 11, 2015
2:00pm
Kansas City’s Green Duck Tavern, at 26th Street and Prospect Avenue, was once an unassuming seat of power, owned by politician and civil rights activi...
Signature Event
September 27, 2015
2:00pm
The Westport Center for the Arts and Jacqueline L. Gafford present a one-woman play about the life and times of Barbara Jordan, the first southern bla...
Signature Event
August 15, 2014
6:00pm
The Kansas City Public Library and The KC Kingpen Coalition present drug-kingpin - turned philanthropist and author - Freeway Rick Ross. He will disc...
Signature Event
August 10, 2014
2:00pm
Several Kansas Citians including neighborhood residents Alvin Brooks, Karen Slaughter, Telester Powell, Joe Louis Mattox recently created digital stor...
Signature Event
June 29, 2014
2:00pm
In partnership with the Westport Center for the Arts we will present a reading of The 3 Ms. This new play features the widows of Martin Luther King,...
Signature Event
June 14, 2014
2:00pm
During decades of official segregation in public schools, all-black Lincoln High was a source of community inspiration, pride, and hope matched only b...