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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
