Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am Online How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm Online At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm Online One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event An Eye for an Eye: Re-evaluating the Death Penalty Tuesday, February 21, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out... Read More
Signature Event A Public Conversation with David Hughes Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat... Read More
Signature Event A Public Conversation with Cliff Illig Thursday, July 14, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig... Read More
Signature Event Cents and Sensibility Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo... Read More
Signature Event A Public Conversation with Adam Hamilton Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has... Read More
Signature Event Who Can Help Johnny Read? Wednesday, March 16, 2016 6:30pm Central Library In Person Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l... Read More
Signature Event A Public Conversation with SuEllen Fried Thursday, March 3, 2016 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush... Read More