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 The Beaded Image Thursday, August 17, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus... Read More
Signature Event ‘To Make a Poet Black, and Bid Him Sing’ Tuesday, February 28, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli... Read More
Signature Event The Voices of Heaven - Maija Rhee Devine Wednesday, March 5, 2014 6:30pm Central Library In Person Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Indepen... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with Patrick Rosal Tuesday, November 12, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los... Read More
Signature Event The Trouble Ball - Martin Espada Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t... Read More
Signature Event The Great Debates Revisited: Rick Perlstein Monday, October 18, 2010 8:30pm Plaza Branch In Person American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi... Read More
Signature Event The Great Debates Revisited: Timothy Naftali Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:30pm Plaza Branch In Person American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi... Read More