Signature Event What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues Thursday, April 16, 2020 6:30pm Online In an online discussion of his new book,What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, author Cliffor... Read More
Signature Event Driving While Black Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30pm Central Library In Person Perhaps no one took more meaning from the advent of the automobile—and its promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression—than African... Read More
Signature Event Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challe... Read More
Signature Event We’ve Built Cities We Can’t Afford Tuesday, March 3, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi... Read More
Signature Event Iwo Jima: 'Uncommon Valor Was a Common Virtue' Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:30pm Central Library In Person As the first of 70,000 U.S. Marines swept onto Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, victory was all but certain. The Americans had an overwhelming numeri... Read More
Signature Event Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:30pm Central Library In Person In a discussion of her new book, Towson University’s Jeannie Vanasco walks through her lingering trauma, feelings of betrayal, and... Read More
Signature Event Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy Wednesday, February 19, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman... Read More
Signature Event What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit... Read More
Signature Event Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us About Being Human Tuesday, February 4, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t... Read More
Signature Event Ballpark: Baseball in the American City Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger... Read More