Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Eating Up Easter Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:00pm Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R... Read More
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
Signature Event Politico’s Mike Allen Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In the new series Dateline: Washington with David Von Drehle, journalists covering the nation’s capital offer an insider’s look at po... Read More
Signature Event The Future of Space Exploration and the Sale of The Washington Post : Joel Achenbach Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:30pm Central Library The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host... Read More
Signature Event Freeing the Economy: Megan McArdle Tuesday, September 17, 2013 6:30pm Central Library Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Bloomberg blogger Megan McArdle discuss Freeing the Economy i... Read More
Signature Event Aftermath of the Long War: David Finkel Wednesday, October 16, 2013 6:30pm Central Library Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter Da... Read More
Signature Event Covering Climate Change: Justin Gillis Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:30pm Central Library Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who has... Read More