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America in the 1950s was undergoing what the University of Missouri’s Steven Watts calls a “crisis of manhood,” denigrating Eisenhowe...

Marvel Comics’ headline-grabbing move to a female Thor a little more th...

Even before her acclaimed debut novel, Brit Bennett had drawn attention for her forceful essays about racial injustice, police violen...

African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of al...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visiona...

 The Library screens a series of romantic shorts and clips as it resumes a special new, intergenerational movie series welcoming individuals with...

The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...

They were unlikely heroes at a time – amid the nation’s Great Depression and added regional scourges of the Dust Bowl – when hope and inspiration was...

Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...

Coterie Theatre artists read from Samantha Berger’s story of an ordinary boy who transforms into a grumbling Crankenstein on what he...