Signature Event 9to5: The Story of a Movement Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:00pm Online 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 Online 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 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 Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm Online 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 Online 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 In Person 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 First Rainbow Coalition Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po... Read More
Signature Event Decade of Fire Saturday, November 9, 2019 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra... Read More