Continuing the work of the University of Mississippi's Rethinking Mass Incarceration in the South conference in 2014 ad 2016 and Harvard's Beyond the Gates conference in 2018, the Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration conference on December 5-7, 2019 will bring together nationally-recognized scholars, activists, policymakers, lawyers, artists, and students at the University […]

The Local History and Genealogy Department of Biloxi Public Library recently received a donation of over 36,000 negatives of weddings, events, families, land aerials, and historic buildings by Chauncey Hinman. Hinman (1913-1989) was a commercial photographer who was active from the late 1940s to the 1980s. During his most active period from the 1950s-1960s, Hinman worked […]

Through its "Bridging Cultures" Program, the International Museum of Muslin Cultures utilizes its two signature exhibitions: "Muslims with Christians and Jews: An Exhibition of Covenants and Coexistence," and "The Legacy of Timbuktu: Wonders of the Written Word" to develop a series of programs and educational opportunities.  IMMC's Islamic Thought Institute engages local and  national partners […]

Through its "Bridging Cultures" Program, the International Museum of Muslin Cultures utilizes its two signature exhibitions: "Muslims with Christians and Jews: An Exhibition of Covenants and Coexistence," and "The Legacy of Timbuktu: Wonders of the Written Word" to develop a series of programs and educational opportunities.  IMMC's Islamic Thought Institute engages local and national partners […]

In the spring of 1970, college and university students across the country protested against the Vietnam War, racism, gender oppression, and a host of other issues, at times leading to violent and deadly confrontations with police and national guard troops. On May 14th, 1970, students at Jackson State College staged a demonstration condemning racial discrimination […]

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South, newly freed, expressed a tangible optimism that led to the reuniting of families, the development of social institutions like the black church, the rise of cultural expressions like the Blues and jazz, the establishment of black-owned businesses and other economic endeavors, and the wielding of significant […]

Black women in Mississippi actively participated in the suffrage movement after the Civil War. They fought actively for women’s suffrage even as they supported Black men and passage of the 15th Amendment. With passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, Black women could not claim victory. It would take another 40  years before they could […]

Humanities Teacher Awardee for Alcorn State University, Earnestine Lee, will present her public lecture: "Faced with woefully inadequate societal evidence of increasing global warming, especially in terms of reducing carbon emissions, social scientists have recognized that climate change is a human problem caused by human actions.  My research focuses on the long-term threat to human […]

Humanities Teacher Awardee for Hinds Community College, Laura Hammons, will present her public lecture. Details TBA.

This presentation examines how slaves and colonists weathered the economic and political upheavals that rocked the Lower Mississippi Valley in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Dr. Pinnen focuses on the fitful–and often futile–efforts of the English, the Spanish, and the Americans to establish plantation agriculture in Natchez and its environs, […]

Annual Black history month programs featuring historical perspectives on the African American experience in Mississippi from slavery through Civil Rights and contemporary times. The February 6th event will feature guest speaker Dr. John A Peoples, Jr., retired President of Jackson State University.