Sunday Screening: "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah Country Roots and Living Legacy is at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Just One Interpreter's Lens: The Deaf Community will be presented by Mississippi Gulf Community College's 202 Humanities Teacher of the Year Jamie Olson. The aim is to highlight the unique […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Known as the sister of famous composer Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel composed over 450 works despite being discouraged by family members and 19th-century society. Hear stories of her life […]