Signature Event Archive

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William Allen White: Journalism for Our Times

Kevin Willmott, Colleen McCain Nelson

At the recommendation of healthcare professionals, the Kansas City Public Library has suspended all public events and other group gatherings through at least March 31 amid growing concern over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Monday, March 30, 2020 6:30 pm
Reception: 
Wine and cheese 6 p.m.
Plaza Branch
Event Canceled

Exotics R Us

Friday Night Family Fun

At the recommendation of healthcare professionals, the Kansas City Public Library has suspended all public events and other group gatherings through at least March 31 amid growing concern over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Friday, March 27, 2020 6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
Event Canceled

Supreme Ambition

Ruth Marcus

In a discussion of her new book Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover, The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus sheds new light on the polarizing appointment of the newest associate justice of the Supreme Court and the larger mission behind it: fulfillment of a 30-year quest by conservatives to win a majority on the court.

 

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Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:30 pm
Reception: 
6 pm
Central Library
Event Canceled

The Liberation of Manila

Louis DiMarco

At the recommendation of healthcare professionals, the Kansas City Public Library has suspended all public events and other group gatherings through at least March 31 amid growing concern over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:30 pm
Reception: 
6 pm
Central Library
Event Canceled

Bedlam

Indie Lens Pop-Up
Haunted by the death of a mentally ill sister, filmmaker (and practicing psychiatrist) Kenneth Rosenberg embarked on a five-year examination of our nation’s woefully inadequate care of those with chronic and severe psychiatric conditions. His 2019 documentary Bedlam, set in Los Angeles, goes inside an overwhelmed psychiatric emergency room, a nearby jail warehousing thousands of psychiatric patients, and the homes and homeless encampments of people suffering from serious mental illness.
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Saturday, March 21, 2020 2:00 pm
Plaza Branch
Event Canceled

Barbara Bush: Pearls of Wisdom

Jean Becker

Jean Becker, longtime chief of staff to 41st President George H.W. Bush and a White House aide to his wife Barbara, recalls the former first lady and her memorably witty, often blunt bits of advice to family members and other close associates in a discussion of her book Pearls of Wisdom: Little Pieces of Advice (That Go a Long Way).

 

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Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:30 pm
Reception: 
6 pm
Plaza Branch
Event Canceled

George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan

At the recommendation of healthcare professionals, the Kansas City Public Library has suspended all public events and other group gatherings through at least March 31 amid growing concern over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Monday, March 16, 2020 6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
Event Canceled

The Golden Lane: How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History

Margot McMillen
Missouri Valley Sundays

At the recommendation of healthcare professionals, the Kansas City Public Library has suspended all public events and other group gatherings through at least March 31 amid growing concern over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Sunday, March 15, 2020 2:00 pm
Reception: 
Following
Central Library
Event Canceled

Driving While Black

Gretchen Sorin

Perhaps no one took more meaning from the advent of the automobile—and its promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression—than African Americans. With the aid of the famed Green Book and other travel guides, black-only businesses, and informal communication networks, they could navigate the mid-20th century’s Jim Crow landscape.

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In a discussion of her new book Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights, historian Gretchen Sorin looks back at the rise of the automobile in the mid-20th century and its impact on black Americans. It brought the promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression – but also such new challenges as unwarranted traffic stops and subsequent racial violence.
Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30 pm
Reception: 
6 pm
Central Library
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Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challenges she addressed in her bestselling book on the psychology of racism, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?. Two decades later, we still are struggling to understand what racism is, how it impacts us all, and what we can do about it.

 

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30 pm
Reception: 
6 pm
Plaza Branch
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