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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Sunday Screening: "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah Country Roots and Living Legacy is at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council is pleased to partner with the Mississippi Book Festival and Urban Foxes to present our next "Reading the Room" event. If you love reading, socializing and […]
Let’s Talk About The Blues! Pine Belt Blues That Is! While honoring Mr. T-Bone Pruitt. Pinebelt Blues is shaping up to be a genre of blues coming straight from the […]
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 […]
Deciding that she would rather celebrate his birth and achievements rather than focus on his death, Margaret Walker sponsored one of the first birthday convocations for Dr. Martin Luther King, […]
Speaker Diane 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 didn’t […]
