The Mississippi Humanities Council announced the winners of its 2023 Public Humanities Awards recognizing outstanding work in preserving and sharing Mississippi’s unique history and culture. The awards ceremony will be held March 24, 2023 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. Tickets can be purchased at mshumanities.org. Also, the MHC will recognize 30 recipients of […]
Millsaps College will host its very first Banned Books Festival on March 25, 2023. Increasingly, multitudes of books have been banned from public school libraries for their subject matter—for example, exploring racial justice and injustice, documenting investigative reporting and navigating difficult experiences through memoir. In reaction to these rising bans, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers […]
Founded by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Square Books, the Oxford Conference for the Book brings together fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, artists, poets, publishers, teachers, students, and literacy advocates for three days of conversation in the literary town of Oxford, Mississippi. This is the longest-running event put on by the Center […]
According to the 2016 Clarion Ledger article, “The Women who Run our State”, “Of 172 legislative seats at the state Capitol, only 25 are filled by women.” Now in 2023, that number has decreased to 23. The article also states that in 2016, “Only five of our 19 higher court judges and justices are women”. […]
Mississippi State University will host this conference intended to bring together the artist who created Nashville Ballet's "Lucy Negro Redux" with both senior and junior scholars in academic fields important for thinking through different aspects of it. Featured Events include: A Roundtable Discussion with poet, Caroline Randall Williams, choreographer Paul Vasterling, and originator of the […]
Medicine Wheel Garden Event at USM Hattiesburg Campus The Center of American Indian Research and Studies (CAIRS) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) is partnering with the Mississippi Humanities Council, WECAN (Women's Earth & Climate Action Network) and the Telenutrition Center to present several events throughout the year at the Medicine Wheel Garden, located […]
A historical marker commemorating the tragic lynching and torture deaths of Robert “Bootjack” McDaniels and Roosevelt “Red” Townes will be unveiled in Duck Hill, Mississippi on April 13, 2023. The story of the murders of Bootjack and Red is among the unsung history of Blacks living in Mississippi.
Mississippi College presents a series of talks entitled, “What We Can Learn From _____.” This talk features Dr. Christopher Snyder presenting "Never Laugh at Dragons," What We Can Learn from J.R.R. Tolkien and Mythology. Check it out, 4/13 at the Chapel (Building A)- FBC Clinton. Each presentation is followed by a reception with live music. The […]
Behind the Big House is one of few historic site tours developed with the specific goal of interpreting slavery. The program began with several private homeowners in Holly Springs, Mississippi, who opened slave houses on their properties to the public. Since 2012, the program has educated thousands in North Mississippi and Arkansas. This year, Preserve […]
On Monday, April 24th, ICC Fulton campus library will have a Humanities Showcase from 2 to 4. It is the final event in our year-long series "Reflecting Mississippi: Finding Yourself in Mississippi's Reflection." The showcase will be broken into four segments of twenty minutes each: (2:00-2:10 -- Welcome and Overview) 2:10-2:30 -- Philosophy and Ethics […]
Cottrell Street is one of the most historic streets in the City of WestPoint and leaders wanted to spread some of the history to those who don’t know much about it. Cottrell Street used to be the life of West Point in the 50’s and 60’s but things died down after that. Now town leaders […]
