Reading the Room

Urban Foxes Jackson, MS, United States

The Mississippi Humanities Council is pleased to partner with the Mississippi Book Festival and Urban Foxes to present our next "Reading the Room" event. If you love reading, socializing and […]

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Blues on 5th Street

Laurel Jones County Black History Museum and Arts 820 W 5th St, Laurel, United States

Let’s Talk About The Blues! Pine Belt Blues That Is! While honoring Mr. T-Bone Pruitt. Pinebelt Blues is shaping up to be a genre of blues coming straight from the […]

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Speakers Bureau: “Mississippi Telling”

Boys and Girls Club of North Mississippi 1242 S Green St, Tupelo, MS, United States

The presenter, Dr. Rebecca Jernigan, provides an overview of the storytelling Renaissance in America with emphasis upon the oral tradition in Mississippi. The literary tradition of Mississippi owes much to […]

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57th MLK Convocation

Jackson State University 1400 J.R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS

Deciding that she would rather celebrate his birth and achievements rather than focus on his death, Margaret Walker sponsored one of the first birthday convocations for Dr. Martin Luther King, […]

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Reading the Room

Hey book community! It’s that time again! Join us for our next Reading the Room event on Wednesday, February 12th at 6:00 pm, at Urban Foxes! Bring any book and […]

Speakers Bureau: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at The University of Southern MIssissippi 118 College Dr #5055, Hattiesburg, MS, United States

Speaker Diane Williams is a neo-griot, along the lines of the story­tellers from times gone by when oral historians were crucial to maintaining black folks’ history because book publishers didn’t […]

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Speaker Series: Matthew Skic

Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United States

The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]

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Speakers Bureau: Mississippi Telling

Boys and Girls Club of North Mississippi 1242 S Green St, Tupelo, MS, United States

The presenter, Rebecca Jernigan, provides an overview of the storytelling Renaissance in America with emphasis upon the oral tradition in Mississippi. The literary tradition of Mississippi owes much to the […]

Free

HOMEGROWN: A WRITERS’ EXCHANGE: 2025

University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus 730 E Beach Blvd, Long Beacj, MS, United States

HOMEGROWN is a full-day literary arts event, -- free and open to the public -- that presents acclaimed southern authors in moderated panel discussions that cut across multiple current, timely, […]

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African American Read-In

Jackson State University College of Education Room 100 1400 John Lynch Street , Jackson , MS, United States

Please join the mothers and daughters of the Blossoms Mother-Daughter Reading Club as we celebrate the 2025 African American Read-In.

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