Humanities Teacher Award winner Renee Moore (Mississippi Delta Community College) presents her public lecture, "The Humanity of Teaching (and Learning) English." Reception to follow. Language study represents the heart of the humanities. Any English classroom, face-to-face or digital, knowingly or unwittingly generates powerful interactions of human emotion and intellect. For over two decades, I have […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Sandra M. Dembly-Davis (Alcorn State University) will present "Global Perspective on Social Work Practice" Global Social Work Practice with individuals, families, and communities around the world that have been impacted after a disaster requires social workers to have a specific set of skills and knowledge to help these individuals, families and communities face many […]

The Sunflower County Freedom Project youth drama will present Baltimore, a play by Kirsten Greenridge. Baltimore focuses on a group of college students whose lives are shaken when someone draws an offensive picture of the wall of their residence hall. The play shines light on issues of equality, racism, community, and the question of who gets to belong […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Alisea McLeod (Rust College) will present her public lecture titled, "Sharp Bargainers: John Eaton, Jr's 63rd VSCT." Reception to follow.

For 75 years, children have been captivated by “Curious George.” Much is known about “George,” but little is know about his creators. The lived of Margret and H.A. Rey are as interesting as the little monkey they created-if not more so. This presentation will examine their lived- telling of their lives in Hamburg, Germany, as […]

Miz Bob (known as Bob Hunter to friends and family) learned to cook from her mother and her grandmother. Her mental catalogue includes over 500 recipes and follows the art of cooking from the slave kitchen to her great-grandmother’s table. Miz Bob began teaching her daughter, Kathy Starr, all 500 recipes at about age 5, […]

In mid-February 2019, the first solo photography exhibit of Rory Doyle will open at the Delta Arts Alliance. The public exhibit will feature work from over two years of documenting the African-American cowboy and cowgirl subculture in the Mississippi Delta. On opening night, February 19, Dr. Shalando Jones of Delta State University will present a […]

In 2018, the Hancock Performing Arts Center received a grant for a series of lectures entitled, "The Struggle and the Music It Created." The purpose of the project was to address race in Mississippi and to discuss the relevance of the music that defined the movement. The majority of the audience attending was students. After […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Sheila Hailey (Hinds Community College) will present her public lecture, "The Interesting Question that History Can Answer." Reception to follow. "This presentation will focus on  unusual and off-beat questions that students have asked me in my years as a teacher. These questions range from when did we start using forks to […]

"Democratic Faith in Dark Times" will be a meditation on piety, faith, and the transformative potential of self and society. Melvin Rogers grew up in the Bronx and was educated at Amherst College, Cambridge, and Yale University. After holding professorships at University of Virginia in Political Science, Emory University in Philosophy, and the UCLA in […]