In colorful costume,storytellers Rebecca Jernigan and Wendy Garrison retell the tale of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. With music, drama and sign language, they recount his fateful encounter with the Prince of Darkness at the crossroads in the Delta. In educational venues they stress that the audience is integral to any live performance. They discuss the […]
The 2019 Petal Suthern Miss Powwow will be held on April 13-14 with a school day on April 11. It will take place at Willie Hinton Park in Petal, with Natives and non-Natives in celebration of American Indian Culture, crafts, foodways, dance, and song.
Turry Flucker will lead a panel that will focuses on two significant art groups that responded to the Civil Rights movement: The Art Committee for Tougaloo College and Spiral: An African American Art Collective. Active from the summer of 1963 through 1965, he group of artists met weekly to discuss the role of African-American artists in […]
An hour-long educational workshop conducted by Grammy and Tony Award-winning jazz giant Dee Dee Bridgewater. She will discuss various topics that relate to the heritage and history of jazz in the U.S. South.
On April 16, join the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Phil Hardin Foundation, and Meraki Roasting Company in Clarksdale for the first in a special two-part Ideas on Tap series on public education in the state. The program will feature an ideologically diverse panel of education policy experts to discuss different approaches to improving public schools. […]
This panel will focus on the music from the Civil Rights Era. They will be using audio and video clips from the time period, which is also included within the exhibition itself. These will include songs that were written about Emmett Till and the Three Civil Rights workers who were murdered near Philadelphia, Miss. There […]
This panel will discuss aspects of the Civil Rights Movement with focus on their specific areas of expertise. Facilitator and Panelist: Dr. Robert Luckett, Associate Professor, Department of History and Director, Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University. Dr. Luckett will speak about the invention of Jim Crow and what became known as the “Mississippi Plan” that […]
Florence Mars, whose family go back four generations in Neshoba County, braved social ostracism and threats of violence to denounce the murders of the three Civil Rights workers-Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney—through then lens of her camera. She bought a camera and built a dark room and began to photograph and document a racial order […]
On April 23, join the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Phil Hardin Foundation in Jackson for the first in a special two-part Ideas on Tap series on public education in the state. The program will feature an ideologically diverse panel of education policy experts to discuss different approaches to improving public schools. Panelists include Grant […]
"The Struggle Continues: Equity in Education" is a series of three lectures centering on the history of equity in public education. The series will examine today's political climate and the role of the federal, state, and local governments in education, and will consider ways citizens can play a role in equity in education. The April […]
Young People are capable of amazing work and can open up hearts and minds in a way that adults cannot. This project aims to further racial equity by having young people create a performance that will be showcased in two Mississippi Delta communities about their experiences with race and afterward facilitate a public discussion […]
In 1967, while visiting Mississippi as part of the Senate subcommittee on poverty, Robert Kennedy cradled hungry children, talked with mothers about how they fed their families and examined empty refrigerators. Although he was only in the Delta for a day, Kennedy, the people he encountered, Mississippi and the nation felt the impact of that […]
