The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – performing on a mobile stage in the parking area outside the Waldo Branch. To maintain safety, the Library asks attendees to socially distance and wear masks where or when appropriate. Those wishing to sit should bring their own chairs.

Alarmed by the racial and socioeconomic barriers inherent in education and the profound impact on Black children and communities of color, Tracy Swinton Bailey sought a little more than a decade ago to do something about it.