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 Natchez area. Scheduled for February 25, 2025: Paula C. Johnson, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law; Co-Founder and Director of the Syracuse University College of […]
Rosalynn Rutland is Blue Mountain Christian University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Rutland’s lecture, Educators Perceive Biliteracy as a Resource for Students in Mississippi, will be presented 2/27/25 at 4:00 pm on the college’s campus in the Paschal Student Union Building. This is a presentation of portions of a qualitative study, “Listening to the Voices of […]
This presentation, by Jerry Jenkins, will give the listener a glimpse of the Mande Culture of West Africa. In the tradition of the Mande, the history and culture is orally preserved in the minds and through the music of the Djeli (oral librarian/mandenka hereditary professional musicians). The establishment of the Mali Empire can be recalled […]
In honor of the centennial birthday of Medgar W. Evers, the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument will co-host a program titled A Centennial Conversation: The Legacy of Medgar Evers, 100 years Later. The program will consist of a conversation between Dr. Miranda Freeman, Dean of Humanities at Tougaloo College […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council, in partnership with the Visit Mississippi, will unveil a Freedom Trail marker February 28th in Fayette at the Jefferson County Courthouse at 12 pm to honor the extraordinary work of Charles Evers. Evers was elected in Fayette, Mississippi, as the first African-American mayor of a biracial town in Mississippi since the […]
Ashley Weathers is Southwest Mississippi Community College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Weathers' lecture, From Incarceration to Education: An Analysis of Barriers to Higher Education in Mississippi Prisons, will be presented 2/28/25 at 1:00 pm on the college’s main campus in the Holmes Student Union Auditorium. Weathers will be among those honored at the […]
Diane Williams presents: "Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World." Diane uses the art of storytelling to uncover folktales from the south, oral history from Mississippi, often paralleling these story motifs with folktales from around the world.
