This is the culmination of the Jackson County Historical & Genealogical Society's Time Capsule Project. Community and state leaders will be present to offer their salutes to our past and our future. A high school band will be playing. Complimentary mementos for this Bicentennial will be available. Food and drink vendors will be there as […]

The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library is hosting a workshop titled “Preserving Family Photographs” on January 11th from 9am-12pm. The workshop will teach participants how to identify various historic photographic formats and processes. It will also instruct on how to properly handle, store, and preserve one’s family photographic treasures. Participants are encouraged to bring up to three […]

MLK gathering for Delta middle- and high-schoolers to examine issues of race, service and friendship. Youths will be recruited through area churches. Activities will include dialogues, workshops, readings and journaling around the subjects of race, race relations, civil rights and Mississippi history.

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council, Rethink Mississippi, and the Women's Foundation of Mississippi at Hal and Mal's on January 23 for the first installment in our spring series "Emerging Mississippi." Each month, we'll look at areas in which young people are making a difference in Mississippi. On January 23, we'll focus on young people working in politics and policy in […]

Through the Prison to College Pipeline, founded to provide access to college curriculum to state inmates in Mississippi, the Margaret Walker Center has the opportunity to bring the exhibition A Place for All People to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility and Parchman Penitentiary. The exhibition details the history of the National Museum of African American […]

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's "Celebrating African American History & Culture" series that will be on display during February, Black History Month, in the library galleries.

Part of The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture series.

Part of The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County’s Celebrating African American History & Culture series.

Partnership with the William Winter Institute to observe Black History Month with a screening of a film about the Restorative Justice movement, which works to combat racial discrimination in schools by addressing trauma that often leads to misbehavior and delinquency. Screening of "Circles" will begin at 4:15PM on Malco Screen 1.

Part of the Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County Library's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series. Lecture by Dr. Charles Bolton titled "Camp Van Dorn, WWII Mobilization, & Black Troops in the Deep South."  

A day-and-a-half long interdisciplinary symposium that will convene artists, curators, scholars, and the public to explore issues related to identity, race, indigeneity, trauma, and memory. Occurring February 16-18, Bringing Forward the Past will intersect several concurrent projects and its local community, with deep ties to national conversations about these issues. Speakers include historians Dr. Sarah […]

The Mississippi Humanities Council will present its 2018 Public Humanities Awards at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. The Public Humanities Awards recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public audiences. Details about this year's award recipients and ordering tickets can be found here.