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Thursday, June 27, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens o...
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Thursday, July 11, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
This film is based on a true story. Dee Roberts is a young black woman raising four daughters with the help of her mother in an all-black housing p...
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Struggling to find a better life, Clarence is captivated by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine e...
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Thursday, August 8, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, disc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
6:30pm
Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Independen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between loss a...
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At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
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How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
Signature Event
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One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...