Signature Event Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:30pm Online Drawing from his penetrating new book Know Your Price, the Brookings Institution’s Andre Perry joins... Read More
Signature Event The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Tuesday, October 20, 2020 6:30pm Online Les Payne’s new biography of Malcolm X already has made waves, revealing a clandestine meeting between the incendiary civil rights activist and an... Read More
Signature Event Black Bottom Saints Monday, October 19, 2020 6:30pm Online Alice Randall, seen widely as one of the most significant voices in contemporary African American fiction, was born in Detroit and can attes... Read More
Signature Event The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:30pm Online Science has always been interwoven in our daily lives but perhaps never as noticeably – and for some, uncomfortably – as it is amid our struggles n... Read More
Signature Event Tom Pendergast and the Feud That Changed the Way States Choose Their Supreme Court Judges Thursday, October 8, 2020 6:30pm Online The model for fairly selecting judges across much of our country is known as the Missouri Plan, born some 80 years ago in response to the political... Read More
Signature Event The Liberation of Manila Tuesday, October 6, 2020 6:30pm Online The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie... Read More
Signature Event Ban These Books? Let’s Talk Wednesday, September 30, 2020 6:30pm Online From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter. From The Great Gatsby to The Giving Tree. For a... Read More
Signature Event The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:30pm In Person Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pop culture icon – “the Notorious RBG” – by the end of her life. Upon her death last week, at age 87, she inevitably beca... Read More
Signature Event Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice Tuesday, September 22, 2020 6:30pm Online For more than a century – until 1999 – an old Louisiana sugar plantation beside the Mississippi River held a painful secret. Locals knew it as Carv... Read More
Signature Event The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War Thursday, September 17, 2020 6:30pm Online William Faulkner once famously noted, “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” If not explicitly, he was referring most pointedly to an... Read More