Signature Event Coded Bias Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00pm While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc... Read More
Signature Event Mr. SOUL! Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm Online For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. histor... Read More
Signature Event 9to5: The Story of a Movement Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:00pm 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 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 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 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 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 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
Signature Event Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Friday, September 20, 2019 8:00pm Central Library In Person This animated arachnopalooza spins a web of multidimensional adventure. Young Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) gets the radioactive spider bite... Read More