Signature Event What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues Thursday, April 16, 2020 6:30pm Online In an online discussion of his new book,What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, author Cliffor... Read More
Signature Event Driving While Black Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30pm Central Library In Person Perhaps no one took more meaning from the advent of the automobile—and its promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression—than African... Read More
Signature Event Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challe... Read More
Signature Event Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:30pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of her new book, Towson University’s Jeannie Vanasco walks through her lingering trauma, feelings of betrayal, and... Read More
Signature Event Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy Wednesday, February 19, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman... Read More
Signature Event When My Time Comes Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Arguments in the divisive right-to-die debate range from legal to spiritual, ethical, and social. Longtime public radio host and podcaster... Read More
Signature Event What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit... Read More
Signature Event Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human Tuesday, February 4, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t... Read More
Signature Event Ballpark: Baseball in the American City Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger... Read More
Signature Event Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next Thursday, January 23, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Drawing from new book Health Justice Now, activist and author Timothy Faust makes the case for a single-... Read More