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Saturday, June 10, 2017 2:00pm
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The documentary Real Boy tells the story of transgender teen Bennett Wallace, the struggle by his mother to accept his tr...
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Saturday, February 10, 2018 2:00pm
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As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm
When Jonathan Scott, the eco-conscious co-star of HGTV’s popular Property Brothers, added solar panels to his Las Vegas h...
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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.&...
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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...
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Thursday, April 22, 2021 8:00pm
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The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 6:00pm
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Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018 6:30pm
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Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...