Signature Event Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S... Read More
Signature Event Decade of Fire Saturday, November 9, 2019 2:00pm Plaza Branch For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra... Read More
Signature Event The First Rainbow Coalition Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm Plaza Branch Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po... Read More
Signature Event Always in Season Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch 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... Read More
Activity Movie: 'Book of Clarence' Thursday, July 25, 2024 1:00pm Southeast Branch 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... Read More
Activity Movie: 'Bob Marley One Love' Thursday, August 8, 2024 1:00pm Southeast Branch 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... Read More
Signature Event Martha Jefferson Randolph Wednesday, June 5, 2013 6:30pm Plaza Branch As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents... Read More
Signature Event Edith Kermit Roosevelt Wednesday, April 22, 2015 6:30pm Plaza Branch Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i... Read More
Signature Event Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky Saturday, April 7, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr... Read More
Signature Event Dawnland Saturday, November 3, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch The marginalization of Native Americans wasn’t simply a crime of our country’s distant, unenlightened past. The documentary Dawnland c... Read More