These are filming dates, this listing will be updated with presentation dates when available. The Behind the Big House program in Holly Springs, Mississippi interprets the lives of enslaved […]
Since 2012, the Behind the Big House Tour has interpreted the legacy of slavery and presented it to school groups and the general public. This year, Behind the Big House […]
Hope Policy Institute, Mississippi NAACP, Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative, Children’s Defense Fund, Mississippi Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube 6:00 p.m., […]
From traditional green historical markers to the Mississippi Blues Trail, Freedom Trail, Country Music Trail, and Mississippi Mound Trail, the state’s history is told along its roads. The speaker takes […]
On March 10, 1969 52 students were arrested at the Black Students sit-in and spent the night at Parchman Penitentiary. This film tells the story of the sit-in from the […]
Marino Casem, the longtime coach at Alcorn State University and Southern University, once famously stated that “in the South, college football is a religion, and every Sunday is a holy […]
Join us on Facebook Live as we present Ideas On Tap: Rural Education in Mississippi, a virtual panel discussion on October 5 at 5:30pm. This program was inspired by the […]
On October 6, the MHC will partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to host a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film Civil War (or Who Do We Think […]
The talk, accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, will present the case for a new understanding of Mississippi’s past. The speaker will argue that the Eurocentric past account ignored the role […]
The 29th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival seeks to build on last year's successful virtual festival with a hybrid in-person socially distanced festival that will stream all the programming […]
In the early 20th century the cotton boll weevil, a nasty little beetle that had already destroyed millions of pounds of cotton in Texas and Louisiana, stood on the western […]
