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 […]

THURSDAY CINEMA EVENT: February 21, 2019 6:00-7:15p.m.: Mark Brockway and Tim Givens present: Mississippi Madam: The Life of Nellie Jackson 7:30 p.m.: Beverly Adams and Mark LaFrancis present: Making the Film—Women of the Struggle FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2019 8:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony, Recognition of William Winter Award Winners—Dr. Jane Hulon, Mayor Darryl Grennell, and Vice […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Rev. Dr. Jo Baldwin (Mississippi Valley State University) will present her public lecture, "Introductions and the Social Trinity." Reception to follow "Introductions and My Social Trinity" shows how Dr. Baldwin connects with students the first day of class and inspire them to learn the art of maintaining good relationships, doing intentional […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Jay Wilson (Holmes Community College) will present his public lecture, "Mississippi's Monumental Men: Jefferson Davis and J.Z. George." Reception to follow For the last several years there has been much discussion of many of the public monuments raised early in the last century.  A common refrain from the defenders of these […]

Reenactment of an enslaved African named Abdul-Rahman ibn Ibrahim Sori, of his life as a free African and as an enslaved man in Natchez, MS. Art exhibit and discussion panel.

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. Presentation will take place in the Lorena Smith building. Speakers Expertise: Diane Williams is a neo-griot, along the lines of the story­tellers from times gone by when oral […]

Humanities Teacher Award winner Morgan Boothe presents her public lecture, "Coffee Spoons and Cell Phones: Isolation and Loneliness in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Boothe will be discussing Prufrock's lack of social interaction as a means of control. In trying to control his life, he has lost all means of communication, and […]