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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” — Jackie Robinson. Welcome to the 2025 Kansas City Black History Project with a new collection of free booklets, posters and calendars to be shared in honor and celebration of great men and women in our city’s history. Click to learn more and download the project.
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The Kansas City Black History Project has returned with an eight-page booklet and poster set featuring profiles of six area men and women who enriched, entertained, strengthened and even saved lives. See who is featured this year and learn how to get your copy.
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Need help finding low-cost access to TV entertainment and information? Or help getting affordable Internet? A free workshop will help households learn about inexpensive ways to get Internet and online streaming services — and get free Google Chromecast.
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Raised in Kansas City’s east side, Alvin Sykes would find power in libraries to rise up as a human rights icon, redressing wrongs in the U.S. justice system, championing new investigations into the murders of Emmitt Till and Leon Jordan.
His story is one of eight new biographies that highlight the second edition of the national award-winning publication, Kansas City Black History. Learn more and order a copy by clicking here.
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Need a computer? The Kansas City Public Library now has 900 Chromebooks available to anyone with a library card for 21-day checkouts..
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Kansas City history is making national history. The American Association for State and Local History has named the Kansas City Black History Project as a 2022 winner of its “Award of Excellence,” honoring the work of LINC, the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America
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The summer of 2022 has arrived with refreshing joy and possibilities — but also with a heavy air of fear. The hot season has long brought out the best and the worst of the fellowship that brings neighborhoods together and the violence and neglect that endangers children and families. Here’s what KC is doing about it and how you can help.
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Start your reading engines, kids. The Kansas City Public Library and the Mid-Continent Public Library are stocking up again at neighborhood branches near you with adventurous, beautiful themes — and prizes — to inspire summer reading.
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Everything that’s motivated the 12 years of work in the Kansas City Black History Project — the research, the storytelling, the teaching and sharing — has gone fully digital. An enhanced webpage unleashes the stories of more than 80 Black men and women into sortable lists, school lesson plans, poetic video, essays and links to recorded oral history.
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The Jackson County Historical Society will honor the Kansas City Black History Project by the Kansas City Public Library, the Black Archives of Mid-America and LINC at its annual awards dinner this month.
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For more than a decade, researchers with the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America have been working with LINC to tell the deep and influential history of Kansas City Black women and men. Now it’s time that Wikipedia got up to speed.
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A 12-year project of gathering the stories of influential Black men and women in Kansas City’s history has won a state wide award for excellence.
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The Kansas City Star recently examined its coverage of race and the city’s Black community over its 140-year history. In conjunction with the Kansas City Public Library, the Star is hosting a public discussion of the newspaper’s actions, the impact and the path forward.
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Registered and Ready to Vote? Join the Library for National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 22. Drop by any library branch in person and register to vote. Library staff will deliver registrations to the appropriate election board.
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The COVID-19 pandemic consequences are all too clear, from an inability to seek out social services, search for a job, or now do schoolwork to the heartache of disconnect from family and friends. That’s why the Kansas City Public Library is offering Wi-Fi hotspots for a free, 14-day checkout.
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Nearly two years after the Kansas City Public Library and KCPT-Kansas City PBS launched an examination of affordable housing in the city, what has changed? For the better? For worse? Mayor Quinton Lucas, who campaigned on the issue, joins a panel discussion and assessment of where the city now stands—as well as where it might be headed.
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Kansas City Mayor Sly James, launching his new autobiography, A Passion for Purpose, will sit down with co-author Sean Wheelock at the Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch July 25 to discuss his career and the life experiences that have shaped his values and views, including his fierce advocacy for children’s literacy and education.
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VOTE411.org is a "one-stop-shop" for election related information. It provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information.
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KCPT-TV‘s Nick Haines and a panel of experts talk about the future of Kansas City Public Schools in Make or Break: Decision Time for KCMO Schools.
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Building the Gigabit City 2.0 explored how KCK and KCMO communities can use the current gigabit Internet connection being installed in the area with speeches from KCK Mayor Mark Holland, KCMO Mayor Sly James and representatives from partners including Mozilla, National Science Foundation, and more.
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