The Bluford Branch will close at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18 due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
April 18, 2010
4:00pm
Master storyteller Gladys Coggswell shares inspirational tales and “down-home” stories about all walks of African-American life...
Signature Event
April 18, 2010
3:00pm
Searching the Psyche through Cinema continues with the unconventional and haunting Sofia Coppola film The Virgin Suicides...
Signature Event
April 16, 2010
8:30pm
Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first black woman...
Signature Event
April 15, 2010
8:30pm
Veteran Washington journalist Carl M. Cannon, co-author of Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawy...
Signature Event
April 14, 2010
8:30pm
Watch and listen as Kansas City jazz greats come to life. Chuck Haddix discusses the musicians portrayed in...
Signature Event
April 13, 2010
8:30pm
Professor Gregory Aldrete explains how the largest city in the ancient world dealt with the perpetual threat of flooding and what...
Signature Event
April 11, 2010
4:30pm
The English Speaking Union is hosting the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor from Westminster College, Fulton, MO.
Dr. Robert Tyler wa...
Signature Event
April 8, 2010
8:30pm
Professor Abdul Alkalimat, the leading African American scholar on the digital divide, will discuss Malcolm X, African Americans & the Cyberspace Revo...
Signature Event
April 8, 2010
8:30pm
David Laskin discusses his new book about 12 European immigrants who came to the U.S. in search of livelihoods, and ended up figh...
Signature Event
April 8, 2010
7:00pm
The UMKC Urban Planning Design Studio has been working on an urban design project looking at a 2 mile stretch of Independence Avenue from Garfield to...