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 Brides on the Santa Fe Trail Sunday, March 14, 2021 3:00pm Online In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail, historian Joy L. Poole examines the stories of five wives who... Read More
Signature Event Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge Wednesday, March 10, 2021 6:30pm Online Pay attention, scientists say. The deadly winter storm that pummeled Texas last month is the latest warning on the impact of climate change. ... Read More
Signature Event Binding Us Together Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:30pm Online Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert... Read More
Signature Event A Legacy of Leadership Sunday, February 21, 2021 3:00pm Online While his story is not widely known, Kansas City civil rights leader Leon M. Jordan was among the most influential African Americans in Missou... Read More
Signature Event Mr. SOUL! Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm 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 A Most Beautiful Thing Wednesday, February 10, 2021 6:30pm Online They came from different neighborhoods and ran with rival gangs on Chicago’s West Side. Improbably, the group of young men found promise and common... Read More
Signature Event Racial Reckoning at The Star: ‘The Truth in Black and White’ Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:30pm Online Days before Christmas, on its website and across more 10 pages of its Sunday print edition, The Kansas City Star laid out a rema... 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 Seeing MAD: MAD Magazine's Humor and Legacy Tuesday, January 26, 2021 6:30pm Online We could use a little “What, me worry?” right now, don’t you think? That cheeky motto, attributed to freckled, gap-toothed mascot A... Read More