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SUMMARY:HTA Lecture: “Bridging the Literacy Gap with Effective Teaching Strategies for Today's College Students”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Shanell Bailey will present the 2026 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi Valley State titled “Bridging the Literacy Gap with Effective Teaching Strategies for Today’s College Students.” \nDr. Bailey’s presentation will focus on the literacy challenges faced by today’s incoming college students and examine how these challenges affect teaching and learning. She will focus on faculty experiences and address the literacy gaps\, which require adjusting instructional strategies rather than lowering academic standards. The presentation provides research-informed teaching strategies and revision-focused feedback that faculty can implement immediately. Overall\, it encourages an approach to literacy instruction that supports student retention and academic success. \nThe lecture will take place on the Mississippi Valley State campus on February 12\, 2026\, at 11 a.m.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/hta-lecture-bridging-the-literacy-gap-with-effective-teaching-strategies-for-todays-college-students/
LOCATION:Mississippi Valley State University\, 14000 US-82\, Itta Bena\, MS\, 38941
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SUMMARY:Speakers Bureau: “This Is My Century: Margaret Walker and the Black Arts Movement"
DESCRIPTION:Robert Luckett presents “This Is My Century: Margaret Walker and the Black Arts Movement.” \nAs Director of the Margaret Walker Center for the Study of the African-American Experience at Jackson State University\, Dr. Luckett has become a leading scholar on the great writer\, scholar and teacher\, Margaret Walker. Best known as the author of For My People (1942) and the neo-slave narrative Jubilee (1966)\, Walker in fact wrote nine books. More importantly\, as a professor of English at JSU\, she made a less well-known but indelible contribution when she founded the Institute for the Study of the History\, Life and Culture of Black People (now named in her honor) in 1968. At the forefront of a nascent Black Studies movement\, Walker considered W.E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes to be her mentors; she in turn became a mentor for hundreds of students and many writers\, actors and scholars like Alice Walker\, Toni Morrison\, Sonia Sanchez\, Amiri Baraka\, James Baldwin\, Nikki Giovanni and so many others. From 1915 until her death in 1998\, Margaret Walker stood at the center of a vibrant community of black artists\, activists and intellectuals in the United States and abroad. Among our earliest public intellectuals\, Walker frequently turned to a range of disciplines in seeking explanations and analyses. Her optimism derived from what she believed to be the human capacity to create and produce written\, artistic and other forms of expressive culture as a record of lived experience.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/speakers-bureau-this-is-my-century-margaret-walker-and-the-black-arts-movement/
LOCATION:Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at The University of Southern MIssissippi\, 118 College Dr #5055\, Hattiesburg\, MS\, 39406\, United States
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SUMMARY:Speakers Bureau: “Savoring African American History through Stories and Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jones Clark presents “Savoring African American History through Stories and Poetry” \nTake a story walk through the eyes and feelings of African Americans from slavery to the mid-seventies. Using award-winning literature via stories and poetry\, the audience will experience plantation life and escape\, life view of a 110-year-old supercentenarian\, living with Jim Crow during a motor trip down south\, death of Emmitt Till poetically immortalized\, feelings of interracial children (Black and Jewish) during the ’70s and some experiences of outstanding African Americans (George Washington Carver\, Gordon Parks and Mary McCloud Bethune). Program contents can vary to suit the audience.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/speakers-bureau-savoring-african-american-history-through-stories-and-poetry-2/
LOCATION:Walls Public Library\, 7181 Delta Bluffs Pkwy\, Walls\, MS\, 38680-8415\, United States
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SUMMARY:Consumed: Black Art & Subjectivity
DESCRIPTION:Following a pandemic-era surge in demand for Black portraiture\, recent market shifts have raised important questions about cultural value\, representation\, and institutional priorities. This roundtable brings together artists and scholars to reflect on the forces shaping how Black subjects are depicted and received both historically and in contemporary art. \nAnchoring the conversation are two recent acquisitions by MMA: a 19th-century portrait of Frederick\, a formerly enslaved man\, and a contemporary self-portrait by D’Angelo Lovell Williams. Together\, these works provoke reflection on identity\, agency\, and the shifting narratives of Black visibility in American art. This program is made possible in part by the Mississippi Humanities Council under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://www.mshumanities.org/event/consumed-black-art-subjectivity/
LOCATION:Mississippi Museum of Art\, 380 South Lamar Street\, Jackson\, MS\, 39201
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