Join us on Thursday, Nov 7, for an engaging tour of Lexington’s historic churches, featuring St. Paul’s Church of God in Christ, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church and First Presbyterian Church. Enjoy fascinating architectural and historical insights and special music.FREE admission, thanks to the generous support of the MS Humanities Council, MS Dept Archives & History, […]
Diane Williams uses the art of storytelling to uncover folktales from the south, oral history from Mississippi, often paralleling these story motifs with folktales from around the world. Williams is a neo-griot, along the lines of the storytellers from times gone by when oral historians were crucial to maintaining black folks’ history because book publishers […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council, in partnership with the Visit Mississippi, will unveil a Freedom Trail marker November 8th at the old courthouse at 12pm in Canton to honor the extraordinary work of Flonzie Brown Wright, the first African American female elected to public office in Mississippi during the 20th century.
On the morning of November 9, a Mississippi Freedom Trail markers will be unveiled honoring Victoria Gray Adams – Honoring her legacy as a Civil Rights leader and one of the founding members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, at Palmer's Crossing outside of Hattiesburg.
The city of Natchez, MS, has announced its second marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail, located at Donnan’s Barbershop, the birthplace of the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Natchez in the 1960s. The Deacons for Defense and Justice was first organized in 1964 in Jonesboro, LA, in response to increasing violence against civil rights activists and the lack of protection […]
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s (MDAH) History Is Lunch (HIL) lecture series has delved into Mississippi’s history, providing a platform for dynamic presentations by esteemed scholars, experts, authors, and thought leaders from both local and national spheres. In the upcoming fall programming, HIL will prioritize lecture series that reflect the cultural heritage of […]
The Lincoln County Public Library is hosting a exhibition, The Jazzman: Preservation Hall Portraits in Black and White, featuring the photography of Mississippian Bob Coke. Known for capturing the essence of New Orleans jazz culture, Coke’s images offer an intimate glimpse into the lives of legendary jazz musicians at Preservation Hall. Exhibition opening and reception […]
Join us for a screening of gOD-Talk Sunday, November 17, at 2 p.m. in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums. Directed by Kim Moir, the one hour and forty-eight minute film explores the lives of seven Black Millennials and explores how intersectionality of faith, race, and environment play a role in […]
The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the Natchez area. Scheduled for November 26, 2024 is: Yvonne Lewis Day, Editor, Columnist, Researcher, and Author: Who Will Sing My Name? The Loss of the […]
Please join us for our upcoming educational programs on Windsor Ruins presented by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a historian at Ohio State University. The first, “The Untold Stories of Enslavement at Windsor,” will be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, December 3, at Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson. Dr. Jeffries will provide historical context […]
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s (MDAH) History Is Lunch (HIL) lecture series has delved into Mississippi’s history, providing a platform for dynamic presentations by esteemed scholars, experts, authors, and thought leaders from both local and national spheres. On Wednesday, December 4, MDAH welcomes Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a distinguished lecturer from Ohio State […]
The presenter, Dr. Rebecca Jernigan, provides an overview of the storytelling Renaissance in America with emphasis upon the oral tradition in Mississippi. The literary tradition of Mississippi owes much to the rich storytelling legacy that riddles the tales of our families, and our communities as reflected in the works of many of our best authors: […]
