The Central Mississippi Blues Society, Inc., with support from Visit Jackson, the Mississippi Humanities Council, South Arts, Mississippi Blues Foundation and affiliates National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts and Mississippi Arts Commission, will celebrate Jackson’s bicentennial with a two-day “blues” extravaganza. The headliner for all events will be international blues star, […]

The Catfish Row Museum in Vicksburg will host Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, from November 19, 2022 until January 20, 2024. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Voices and Votes is a traveling exhibit offered by the Museum on Main Street division of the Smithsonian Institution. It […]

The exhibit honors 12 individuals that challenged Mississippi and America to be a more perfect union, truly expanding liberty and justice for all. These twelve individuals are: Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Annie Devine, Medgar Evers, Lawrence Guyot, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Clarie Collins Harvey, Aaron Henry, John R. Lynch, Thomas W. Stringer, Unita Blackwell, and […]

As part of the "Democracy and the Informed Citizen" Initiative, administered by the Mississippi Humanities Council with support from the Mellon Foundation, the staff of The Pine Belt News will give the public a chance to learn about the performance of local school districts – and the individual schools within them – with an upcoming […]

Brown to lead program on the legacy of the ‘Vickburg Citizens’ Appeal.’ Brown characterizes the Vicksburg Citizens’ Appeal as “a racial uplift newspaper” that encouraged Black parents to attend PTA meetings and stressed the importance of preparing the next generation to enter the world. Join us as he discusses the role the Vicksburg Citizens’ Appeal […]

In the last year, school districts and libraries across Mississippi have begun restricting access to books deemed to have mature content. This means students in certain school districts no longer have easy access to a world of literature filled with characters and situations that mirror their own lives. We want to hear the students perspective. […]

On January 19 at 6:00 p.m., Millsaps will host a screening of the documentary film “The Evers.” The screening will be followed by a conversation between Reena Evers-Everette of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute and Jerry Mitchell with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. The event will take place in McMullan Lecture Hall in […]

Mississippi College presents a series of talks entitled, "What We Can Learn From _____." This talk features 19th-century Mississippi physician A.B. Holder presented by Dr. Courtney Thompson of MSU.  Following the talk, there will be a reception with live music by the MC Brass Ensemble.

Mississippi Founders, sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities "A More Perfect Union" grant, will be hosted at Mississippi College for the month of February. The exhibit highlights twelve Mississippians who challenged America to be a more perfect union. The twelve individuals range from the Reconstruction period to the […]

Book Signing event with Andrew Maraniss:  "Inaugural Ballers. The True Story of the First U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team" From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of the birth of women’s Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women’s basketball […]

Mississippi College African American Studies presents MS Founders and Black Resistance. This exhibit is accompany to a speaker series presentation to address topics related to the exhibits themes. Dr. Kellie Cherie Carter Jackson of Wellesley College will speak from her book, Force and Freedom, which analyzes the history of black abolitionism, as well as forthcoming […]

The 2023 Jackson Book Fair will host Book Talks, Book Sales and Signings, Art/Craft Vendors, Photo Ops, Live Entertainment, Black History Theme, an Intellectual Revolution, a literary family friendly affair. Admission is free and open to the public Poetry Contest Level Elementary School, write at least a 4 line stanza Middle School, write at least […]