Diane uses the art of storytelling to uncover folktales from the south, oral history from Mississippi, often paralleling these story motifs with folktales from around the world. Speakers Expertise: Diane Williams is a neo-griot, along the lines of the story­tellers from times gone by when oral historians were crucial to maintaining black folks' history because […]

          Northeast Mississippi Community College has partnered with the National Park Service to create augmented reality to provide interpretation for existing statues and reliefs at the Corinth Contraband Camp.

A two-day event with keynote presentations by Dr. Jarvis McInnis, the Cordelia and William Laverack Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. A graduate of Tougaloo College, Dr. McInnis's upcoming book, The Afterlives of the Plantation: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora in the Global Black South, examines black transnational identity through African American and Caribbean culture […]

A two-day event with keynote presentations by Dr. Jarvis McInnis, the Cordelia and William Laverack Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. A graduate of Tougaloo College, Dr. McInnis’s upcoming book, The Afterlives of the Plantation: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora in the Global Black South, examines black transnational identity through African American and Caribbean culture and […]

          Located north of downtown Vicksburg on old Highway 61, Margaret's Grocery is a unique vernacular art environment created by Reverend H.D. Dennis. Margaret Rogers Dennis ran the former country store for years. When she met and married Reverend Dennis in the early 1980s, he promised her that he would transform […]

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 […]

These programs are part of the Museum’s Voice and Vision initiative that stages dialogues between the works of Walter Anderson and artifacts from other collections, along with voices across time and place. Voice and Vision includes four in-gallery installations composed of artworks, objects, scholarship, and documentary fieldwork, representing a diversity of stories and experiences rooted […]

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 […]

These programs are part of the Museum’s Voice and Vision initiative that stages dialogues between the works of Walter Anderson and artifacts from other collections, along with voices across time and place. Voice and Vision includes four in-gallery installations composed of artworks, objects, scholarship, and documentary fieldwork, representing a diversity of stories and experiences rooted […]

School textbooks rarely mention much about the Great War — World War I. Although the United States only participated in the final two yeas of the conflict, it changed the world. Drawing on letters published in Mississippi newspapers from across the state, this presentation tells the story of Mississippians who participated in the Great War. […]

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 […]