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 Quantrill in the Movies: John Tibbetts Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:00pm Central Library In Person William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert... Read More
Signature Event The Sack of Lawrence and the Guerrilla War Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:30pm Central Library In Person On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Co... 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
Signature Event Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Saturday, April 30, 2022 1:30pm Plaza Branch Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not dimini... Read More
Signature Event Won't You Be My Neighbor? Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch How much does television—does all of America—miss the kindness and moral compass of Fred Rogers? Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville reminds us with... Read More