This year's festival will include a tour through Clarksdale's historic district and other downtown areas; a MDTW festival reunion and a look at festivals past; a movie screening of the acclaimed 1958 film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on the lawn of the Cutrer Mansion; academic presentations from scholars from around the country including […]
MC School of Humanities and Social Sciences present Dr. Kevin Greene and "What We Can Learn from Big Bill Broonzy, Hall of Fame Blues Musician" Thursday Oct. 20th at 7:00 p.m. in Aven Hall. Join Mississippi Humanities and The Arts Council of Clinton for this fascinating lecture followed by a reception with live music in […]
Crystal Wilkinson’s poetry collection Perfect Black is a reflective love letter to Black girlhood navigating rural homeplace, her developing body, sexual trauma, mental health, food culture, and literary landscapes. She will engage these themes, the poetic craft, and writing’s power to heal.
Now that we have addressed the digital divide in the state with our past IOT event, we want to discuss the future of tech in Mississippi. So, on Wednesday November 3rd we will host another IOT with the Bean Path to examine Mississippi’s bright future in tech. Hear from Dr. Nashlie Sephus, (creator and founder […]
The Central Mississippi Blues Society, Inc., with support from Visit Jackson, the Mississippi Humanities Council, South Arts, Mississippi Blues Foundation and affiliates National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts and Mississippi Arts Commission, will celebrate Jackson’s bicentennial with a two-day “blues” extravaganza. The headliner for all events will be international blues star, […]
The Catfish Row Museum in Vicksburg will host Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, from November 19, 2022 until January 20, 2024. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Voices and Votes is a traveling exhibit offered by the Museum on Main Street division of the Smithsonian Institution. It […]
The exhibit honors 12 individuals that challenged Mississippi and America to be a more perfect union, truly expanding liberty and justice for all. These twelve individuals are: Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Annie Devine, Medgar Evers, Lawrence Guyot, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Clarie Collins Harvey, Aaron Henry, John R. Lynch, Thomas W. Stringer, Unita Blackwell, and […]
As part of the "Democracy and the Informed Citizen" Initiative, administered by the Mississippi Humanities Council with support from the Mellon Foundation, the staff of The Pine Belt News will give the public a chance to learn about the performance of local school districts – and the individual schools within them – with an upcoming […]
Brown to lead program on the legacy of the ‘Vickburg Citizens’ Appeal.’ Brown characterizes the Vicksburg Citizens’ Appeal as “a racial uplift newspaper” that encouraged Black parents to attend PTA meetings and stressed the importance of preparing the next generation to enter the world. Join us as he discusses the role the Vicksburg Citizens’ Appeal […]
