Millsaps College will host its very first Banned Books Festival on March 25, 2023. Increasingly, multitudes of books have been banned from public school libraries for their subject matter—for example, exploring racial justice and injustice, documenting investigative reporting and navigating difficult experiences through memoir. In reaction to these rising bans, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Millsaps College Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Center (TRHT), and the ACLU are collaborating to sponsor a festival with authors of banned books sharing their stories. Join authors Angie Thomas, Julie K. Brown and Rick Bragg, and other to hear them discuss authorship, publication and banning. This event will begin at 9:00 a.m. and take place in various locations on the Millsaps campus.
