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 […]

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Mississippi University for Women will partner with the Guerrilla Girls, a group of feminist activists that uses political art to fight sexism, racism and corruption in society, for a virtual […]