William Moorer is Holmes Community College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Moorer's lecture, Traditional Poetry: I'm Not Dead Yet, will be presented 3/4/25 at 2:00 pm on the college’s campus in McMurrough Library (Goodman Campus). Moorer will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two […]

Jill Drouillard is Mississippi University for Women’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Drouillard’s lecture, The Ice Age of Making Babies and (Pro)creating Meaning in the 21st Century, will be presented 3/4/25 at 4:00 pm on the college’s campus in the Fant Library. Drouillard will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony […]

Hey book community! It’s that time again! Join us for our next Reading the Room event on Wednesday, February 12th at 6:00 pm, at Urban Foxes! Bring any book and enjoy time to read, talk books with your community, and celebrate Mississippi’s vibrant literary culture with us! Reading the Room is presented in partnership with Mississippi […]

When it was first published in hardback in 1994 (with paperback published in 1995), John Dittmer's _Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi_ made a tremendous impact in the scholarship of the Mississippi civil rights movement. While working at Tougaloo and later at Brown and DePauw, Dittmer collected oral histories and consulted countless […]

Join us for a free screening of "My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is" on Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums. Directed by David Rae Morris, this thirty-minute documentary focuses on the life and career of Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister, the first African American […]

EGO TRIPPING: Celebrating Nikki Giovanni Join us for English & Modern Languages Week (March 19-26) as we honor the legendary Nikki Giovanni with panels, film screenings, workshops, and literary events! From exploring the Black Arts Movement to visual poetry and literary salons, this week is packed with inspiration. Don’t miss out! Check the full schedule […]

About Community Read Community Read, sponsored by Mississippi University for Women, is a community-wide shared reading experience that: draws on the university and community’s rich literary heritage and The W's commitment to liberal arts education develops connections between students, faculty, staff, and community members fosters intellectual curiosity and broadens our understanding of our world, our […]

Free screening alert! Join the Mississippi Film Society on Thursday night, March 20, at 7 pm at the @capritheatre (where the new garage is now open for convenient parking) for a free screening of LIFT and an in-person conversation with director/producer David Peterson. Filmed over ten years, LIFT shines a spotlight on the invisible story […]

Come to Foxfire Ranch for two ultra-special community days honoring the legacies of the Mississippi Hill Country! March 23rd: To kick it off, we invite you to breathe with us and celebrate regional Black Folk Life with our Hill Country Heirs Day! We're starting the party with a beautiful libation ceremony by Rkhty Amen. From […]

Hear Judy  Wiggins’s give a presentation titled, “A Will of Her Own, Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820,” Judy Wiggins, retired humanities coordinator and English instructor at Copiah-Lincoln Community College, will give a presentation titled, “A Will of Her Own, Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820,” at the Tuesday, March 25 meeting of the Natchez Historical Society. Judith Sargent […]