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.

Learn how a bill becomes a law, how to look up the actual text of bills by name, keyword, bill number, and even congressional representative using congress.gov.

Jackson State University welcomes Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give to speak in a community forum on March 1, 2018. She will engage her audience in dialogue on social justice issues presented in the novel that specifically address the audience, and will take place in the Jackson State University Student Center Theatre. Thomas Read More >

The Washington County Library System in Greenville, Miss., in partnership with the Greenwood, Miss.-based Turnrow Book Company kicks offl Literary Arts in the Delta Festival (Lit in the Delta Fest) March 10, 2018. The free all-day Festival will convene during National Reading Month, at E. E. Bass Cultural Arts Center, 323 South Main Street and Read More >

Dr. Daniel Sack, program officer with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, will be visiting our region on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Mississippi State University (MSU) is happy to be serving as the host institution for the NEH program officer to provide an NEH regional seminar. During his time at MSU, Read More >

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council, Rethink Mississippi, and the Women's Foundation of Mississippi at Hal and Mal's on March 20 for the third 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 March 20, we'll focus on young people in arts and culture. Panelists include Read More >

Annual literary conference based on the University of Mississippi campus. The 2018 conference will explore a range of topics, from the desegregation of public libraries, the role of long-form journalism in our current news environment and award-winning poetry to the Latino experience in the American South.