Community Library Mississippi presents The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on Today's Culture history speaking series. Presenter Mary Hardy live on zoom and facebook live.

Mississippi College presents a series of talks entitled, “What We Can Learn From _____.” This talk features Daphne Chamberlain presenting on youth involvement in the Civil Rights movement. "Oh Freedom! […]

This annual celebration, which began in 1990, is a theme-based lecture series enhanced by films, workshops, exhibitions, book signings, concerts, discussions and more. The conference is made possible in part […]

Community Library Mississippi presents The Impact of Rap Music on Today's Youth Community Speaking Series presented Malesha Smith live on Zoom and Facebook Live. Get your tickets at eventbrite.com  or […]

From the Civil War burning of Meridian to a tornado wiping out the city’s business district 1906, the history of the Queen City will come alive for area residents Saturday […]

Tell Your Story Stories guide our work and are the threads that bring communities together and connect people to the things they're passionate about. We're proud to partner with the […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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, […]