Mississippi’s African American school buildings still occupy the center of their communities, recalling the struggles of segregation but also the attempts to overcome it. African American attempts to gain parity with white schools in the 1920s with assistance from the Julius Rosenwald Fund gave way to stagnation during the Great Depression, when many consolidated white […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Chris Tingle (Northwest Mississippi Community College) will present his public lecture, “Unvexed to the Sea: The Impact of the Siege of Vicksburg on the Civil War and Mississippi.” This presentation will take place at the Haraway Center on the NWMCC Senatobia Campus and also be streamed via Zoom. Reception to follow. […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Will Bowlin (Northeast MS Community College) will present his public lecture, “Controlling the Message: How Historical Narratives Affect Our Perceptions.” This presentation will take place at the Anderson Auditorium on NEMCC's Booneville campus. Reception to follow. This presentation will discuss how framing affects the interpretation of historical events.  It will use […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Shanelle Frazier (Coahoma Community College) will present her public lecture, “Effective Communication Amongst the College Campus Community by Generational Breakdown: A How-To Guide.” This presentation will take place at the Whiteside Hall Lecture Room on Coahoma's Clarksdale campus. Reception to follow.  

Join us for this Ideas on Tap program titled "Reflecting Mississippi in Monuments". This program will discuss in a broader sense: who has been represented in Mississippi’s monuments? Who hasn’t been? How can we use monuments to tell a fuller, more accurate history of our state? Sue Mobley of Monument Lab, Kathleen Bond of the […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Lashonda Levy (Holmes Community College) will present her public lecture, “Beauty and Poise: Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.” This presentation will take place at the McMorrough Library on Holmes' Goodman Campus. Reception to follow. The toxicity of the culture of display is not a new revelation. Shakespeare deals with it […]

Part of the Black History Month Lecture Series presented by The Mississippi University for Women. Zoom Details located on the flyer.

Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Brandy Wilson (Mississippi University for Women) will present her public lecture, “Perfectly Queer.” This presentation will take place on MUW's campus in Columbus. Reception to follow. For decades surrounding the 1950s, queer characters were portrayed as sick, murderous, alcoholic, and dangerous--and those were the most sympathetic characters. Since the Stonewall […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner DeLisa Brand (East Mississippi Community College) will present her public lecture, “Stitching Cultures” This presentation will take place at the F.R. Young Student Union Building on EMCC's Scooba campus. Reception to follow.

Humanities Teacher Award winner Justin Sharp (East Central Community College) will present his public lecture, “The Nocturne: Listening to Music Through Imagery and Imagination.” This presentation will take place at the Ovid S. Vickers Fine Arts Building on ECCC's Decatur campus. Reception to follow. When we listen to music, we constantly make mental associations, form […]

This screening of Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a collaboration of The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and MHC. Director Joy Davenport will be in attendance and field questions in a Q&A session following the screening.  Fannie Lou Hamer's America was the recipient of an MHC Reflecting Mississippi Grant, being truly reflective of the challenging and […]

Mississippi State University is hosting award-winning author Ross Gay for an upcoming virtual writer-in-residence program, an annual campus event of the College of Arts and Sciences. Gay is author of the New York Times best-selling collection of essays “The Book of Delights” (Algonquin Books, 2019), as well as several collections of poetry, including “Catalog of […]