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Signature Event
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t...
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger...
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Drawing from new book Health Justice Now, activist and author Timothy Faust makes the case for a single-...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
An heiress who preferred big-game hunting to debutante balls, Gertrude “Gertie” Legendre was interesting enough to be an inspiration for a 1928 Broadw...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Author and activist Helen LaKelly Hunt recalls the event that launched the women’s rights movement in our country – the first Anti-Sl...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Author John A. Farrell examines our nation’s 37th president and the relevance of his career and complex legacy in the era of Trump in...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
Signature Event
Monday, November 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...