Diane Williams, storyteller and fiber artist, begins her presentation with a discussion of Kente cloth weaved fibers of West Africa and moves on to utilitarian quilts made by African slaves […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Ginny Leonard (East Mississippi Community College) will present her public lecture, "Literature in Relief: Healing in the Human Spirit." Reception to follow. The strength of the […]
On March 21, join the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the Annex at Rafter's Music and Food in Oxford for "Ideas on […]
Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Mikki Galliher (Blue Mountain College) will present her public lecture titled, "Fallen Ministers and Reformed Seductresses in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Alice Cary's […]
Music of this period played on the Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, banjo-mier and wooden spoons. Period clothing worn. Audience may help play the spoons. Speakers Expertise: Mr. Arinder has studied Early […]
Award-winning journalist Alysia Burton Steele’s Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom is a visual and lyrical tribute to African American church mothers from the Mississippi Delta. This groundbreaking collection of […]
The Sunflower County Freedom Project youth drama will present Baltimore, a play by Kirsten Greenridge. Baltimore focuses on a group of college students whose lvies are shaken when someone draws an offensive picture […]
The Winning the Race Conference was developed with three overarching goals: engage in conversations with campus and community constituencies that will build an appreciation for diversity differences and a spirit […]
The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus premieres its spring 2019 Cultural Arts Series, "Representing the Experiences of Women, From the English Renaissance to Right Now." On March 25, […]
"Shange's Sojourn: 'Somebody almost walked off with alla my stuff!' Women, Art, & Activism" is a celebration of Women's History Month recognizing Ntozake Shange's legacy as established bby the release […]
Founded by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Square Books, the conference brings together fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, artists, poets, publishers, teachers, students, and literacy advocates […]
This presentation consists of a brief introduction of the current state of incarceration in America and Mississippi. Dr. Pickett will then share with the audience the long history of incarceration […]
