Signature Event Coded Bias Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00pm While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc... Read More
Signature Event Brides on the Santa Fe Trail Sunday, March 14, 2021 3:00pm Online In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who... Read More
Signature Event A Legacy of Leadership Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:00pm Online While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou... Read More
Signature Event Mr. SOUL! Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. histor... Read More
Signature Event 9to5: The Story of a Movement Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:00pm There’s a story – important and real-life – behind 9 to 5, both the iconic workplace-revenge movie and the catchy Dolly Parton song.&... Read More
Signature Event Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm When Jonathan Scott, the eco-conscious co-star of HGTV’s popular Property Brothers, added solar panels to his Las Vegas h... Read More
Signature Event Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S... Read More
Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Eating Up Easter Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:00pm Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R... Read More
Signature Event Always in Season Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de... Read More
Signature Event The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour: Race, Media, and America's National Pastime Sunday, February 9, 2020 2:00pm Central Library In Person In 1934, brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean were stars of Major League Baseball’s regular season and World Series. Following their St. Louis Cardinals’... Read More