Part of the Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County Library's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series. Lecture by Dr. Charles Bolton titled "Camp Van Dorn, WWII Mobilization, & Black Troops in the Deep South."  

A day-and-a-half long interdisciplinary symposium that will convene artists, curators, scholars, and the public to explore issues related to identity, race, indigeneity, trauma, and memory. Occurring February 16-18, Bringing Forward the Past will intersect several concurrent projects and its local community, with deep ties to national conversations about these issues. Speakers include historians Dr. Sarah Read More >

The Mississippi Humanities Council will present its 2018 Public Humanities Awards at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. The Public Humanities Awards recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public audiences. Details about this year's award recipients and ordering tickets can be found here.

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series.

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council, Rethink Mississippi, and the Women's Foundation of Mississippi at Hal and Mal's in Jackson on February 20 for the second installment in our spring series "Emerging Mississippi." Each month, we'll look at areas in which young people are making a difference in Mississippi. On February 20, we'll focus on young people in business and Read More >

Annual literary and cinema festival. The 2018 festival will focus on "Southern Gothic" elements in scholarly literature, popular fiction, biography and history.

Annual ecumenical Black History Celebration. The 2018 celebration features Greenwood native, Dr. Tonea Stewart, actress and dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Alabama State University. Stewart will talk about the importance, as a black actress, of choosing her roles carefully to provide positive representations of African American characters on film and Read More >

This two-day symposium will engage the community and scholars on the performance and preservation of African music and dance expressions in Africa and in the diaspora as well as to see the connection between the "traditions" and the contemporary "remembered" elements in diaspora forms. Specifically, traditional African music and dance will be discussed in relation Read More >

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series.

Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and went on to become one of the highest-profile voices for civil rights in the nineteenth century. On Tuesday, February 27, biographer Paula J. Giddings will present “Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching” at the Old Capitol Museum. Wells attended Rust College and became a teacher. Read More >

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's "Celebrating African American History & Culture" series that will be on display during February, Black History Month, in the library galleries.

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