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Signature Event
Monday, February 10, 2020
6:30pm
Premiering in 1971, winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and off-Broadway Obie awards for best American play, The House of Blue Le...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 13, 2020
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Arguments in the divisive right-to-die debate range from legal to spiritual, ethical, and social. Longtime public radio host and podcaster...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
1:30pm
The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2020
1:30pm
The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
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...
Exhibit
February 11, 2020
- March 17, 2020
Popular history largely, and unfairly, overlooks the role of Native Americans in our country’s armed forces. They’ve served in every major milit...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In her new book Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton, award-winning novelist, short story writer, and poet Do...