Mississippi Humanities Council

Voices and Votes: Democracy in America
2022-09-27 - 2022-11-15 | Copiah-Lincoln Comunity College, Natchez, 11 Co-Lin Cir, Natchez, MS, 39120, United States
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Ideas on Tap: Addressing the Digital Divide
2022-09-29 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Bean Path Makerspace, 451 N Gallatin St, Jackson, MS, 39203, United States
Join us for Ideas On Tap: Addressing the Digital Divide on September 29, where we will discuss technological disparities in Mississippi. Panelists include Sally Doty (Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi), Dr. Creston Burse (Mississippi Economic Council), and Tracy Carr (Mississippi Library Commission). They will explore the issues and challenges that have created a digital divide, and how their respective institutions are working to bridge the gaps in technology. The program will take place at the Bean Path Makerspace in Jackson on September 29 at 5:30 p.m. For more information contact our Program and Outreach Officer John Spann at 601-432-6752 and jspann@mhc.state.ms.us

"Southern Fiction" Discussion
2022-10-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Eudora Welty House & Garden, 1119 Pinehurst, Jackson, MS, United States
This event will consist of a conversation between Tema Stauffer and Lauren Rhoades about Stauffer’s project “Southern Fiction”. The discussion will touch on the connection between the photographs and the literature, as well as interrogate the South’s complex historical on social dynamics, as revealed in these images.

SB - Rogers - Learning Mississippi Through Historical Markers
2022-10-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Sharkey Issaquena County Library, 116 Robert Morganfield Way, Rolling Fork, MS, 39159
From traditional green historical markers to the Mississippi Blues Trail, Freedom Trail, Country Music Trail, and Mississippi Mound Trail, the state’s history is told along its roads. The speaker takes a fun romp through history that will interest anyone who likes fascinating trivia about the state.

2022 Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival
2022-10-13 - 2022-10-15 | MS
This year’s festival will include a tour through Clarksdale’s historic district and other downtown areas; a MDTW festival reunion and a look at festivals past; a movie screening of the acclaimed 1958 film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on the lawn of the Cutrer Mansion; academic presentations from scholars from around the country including Williams Scholar, Dr. Kenneth Holditch; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Richard Ford; Award-winning author, W. Ralph Eubanks; Moorman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Dr. Andrew Haley; Award-winning Highway 61 Radio Host, Writer and Researcher, Scott Barretta; Williams Historian and Director of the Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum, Karen Kohlhaas; and Academy-award winning producer, Milton Justice; as well as performances by both professional and community actors; a High School Student Drama Competition; Cultural workshops with talks by Delta Ambassadors; our signature Porch Plays in the historic district; and fun social gatherings with food and music as well.

What We Can Learn From Big Bill Broonzy
2022-10-20 19:00 - 21:30 | Mississippi College, 200 Capitol St., Clinton, MS, 39056
MC School of Humanities and Social Sciences present Dr. Kevin Greene and “What We Can Learn from Big Bill Broonzy, Hall of Fame Blues Musician” Thursday Oct. 20th at 7:00 p.m. in Aven Hall. Join Mississippi Humanities and The Arts Council of Clinton for this fascinating lecture followed by a reception with live music in Jennings Courtyard.

Jim Hill Standing Tall: An Exhibition of the Life of James 'Jim' Hill
2022-10-26 10:00 | Jim Hill High School, 2185 Coach Fred Harris St, Jackson, MS, 39204, United States

Crystal Wilkinson: Homeplace Poetry & How the Soil Looks Back and Wonders
2022-10-27 10:00 | Jackson State University Student Center, 1328 John R. Lynch St, Jackson, MS, 39203, United States
Crystal Wilkinson’s poetry collection Perfect Black is a reflective love letter to Black girlhood navigating rural homeplace, her developing body, sexual trauma, mental health, food culture, and literary landscapes. She will engage these themes, the poetic craft, and writing’s power to heal.

Housing Insecurity in Mississippi Exhibition
2022-11-01 - 2023-01-31 | Johnson Hall Art Gallery, 1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, 39217

Ideas on Tap - Why Mississippi: Local Innovation, Global Opportunities
2022-11-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Bean Path Makerspace, 451 N Gallatin St, Jackson, MS, 39203, United States
Now that we have addressed the digital divide in the state with our past IOT event, we want to discuss the future of tech in Mississippi. So, on Wednesday November 3rd we will host another IOT with the Bean Path to examine Mississippi’s bright future in tech. Hear from Dr. Nashlie Sephus, (creator and founder of the Bean Path) about her plans to create a tech district in the heart of Jackson and how she plans to provide S.T.E.M. education to underserved communities in Jackson. Also, learn from Microsoft TEALS representatives on how they plan expand STEM education in Mississippi schools. Join us from 5:30pm to 7:00pm November 3rd at the Bean Path Makerspace (451 N. Gallatin Street, Jackson MS 39203). To sign up on Eventbrite click the link http://getbean.info/whyms

Housing Insecurity in Mississippi - Roundtable Discussion
2022-11-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, 1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS, 39217, United States

Reflecting Jackson Mississippi In The Blues
2022-11-13 13:00 - 2022-11-14 23:00 | Various Locations in Jackson; See Poster
The Central Mississippi Blues Society, Inc., with support from Visit Jackson, the Mississippi Humanities Council, South Arts, Mississippi Blues Foundation and affiliates National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts and Mississippi Arts Commission, will celebrate Jackson’s bicentennial with a two-day “blues” extravaganza. The headliner for all events will be international blues star, Castro “Mr. Sipp” Coleman. All events are free and open to the public.
Sunday, November 13, 2022, 1-4 pm. Blues musician panels with noted Jackson blues personalities, held in the auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums in downtown Jackson. The panel, “The Lived Experience of The Blues in Jackson” will be moderated by blues journalist, historian and sociologist, Scott Barretta, with panelists Castro Coleman (Mr. Sipp), Sherrill Holly, Willie Silas and Jimmi Mayes. The panel, “Jackson Women in the Blues – Past, Present, Future”, will be moderated by journalist and blues promoter Dr. Brinda Fuller Willis, with panelists Dorothy “Misty Blue” Moore, Nellie “Mack” McInnis and Maya Kyles.

Monday, November 14, 2022, 11:30 am – 1 pm. “Success Over Fame in the Music Business”, a workshop led by Castro “Mr. Sipp” Coleman, at the Jackson State University Department of Music. This workshop will focus on information relevant to managing a successful music career.
Monday, November 14, 2022, 7-11 pm. – Bicentennial Concert at Hal & Mal’s Big Room in downtown Jackson, featuring Castro “Mr. Sipp” Coleman, with the Blue Monday Band opening the show. A full bar and limited menu will be available at this event.

"Voices and Votes" Smithsonian Exhibit in Vicksburg
2022-11-19 - 2023-01-20 | Catfish Row Museum, 913 Washington Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 39183
The Catfish Row Museum in Vicksburg will host Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, from November 19, 2022 until January 20, 2024. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Voices and Votes is a traveling exhibit offered by the Museum on Main Street division of the Smithsonian Institution. It consists of six free-standing display units incorporating photographs, text, and numerous interactive elements. The exhibit is designed for smaller venues to achieve Museum on Main Street’s goal of bringing the Smithsonian to small town America. The exhibit is free and open to the public to visit.
Voices and Votes: Democracy in America traces the bold American experiment of a government run by and for the people. The exhibit examines the influences that shaped the early days of American democracy and the changes that have occurred in the nearly 250 years since.
Democracy is a form of government that requires civic engagement and participation. It is formed by citizens’ responses to ongoing questions: What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens? What is the role of the government in American life? How do citizens participate in democracy? Beginning with the American Revolution, this exhibition explores these questions and more.
In addition to hosting the exhibit, the museum will also host a series of programs that are free and open to the public.
Voices and Votes events in Vicksburg:

November 22, 4pm: Chamber of Commerce Voices and Votes Ribbon Cutting Opening Ceremony with elected officials
November 30: “Ideas on Tap” with Senator Briggs Hopson and Kyle Kirkpatrick, Assistant Secretary of State, Russ Latino, Empower Mississippi
December 3: Sara Dionne, the Warren County Election Commission chairwoman, and Jan Daige, CircuitClerk, to provide educational opportunities on voting processes, including bringing in new voting machines and walking through the voting experience, including registration and voter roll maintenance.
December 10: Fashion Politics Exhibit with local/national fashion designer Raymond Banks
December 20: Donald Field Brown, Harvard Scholar, will provide the history of “The Vicksburg Citizens’ Appeal” during critical civil rights years.
January 4, 2023: Presentation from Voices and Votes state scholar Dr. Rebecca Tuuri, “Democracy in Mississippi: Race, Violence and Power in the Struggle for the Vote”

A More Perfect Union
2022-11-22 08:00 - 2023-01-31 17:00 | Various Locations in Mississippi; See Description
The exhibit honors 12 individuals that challenged Mississippi and America to be a more perfect union, truly expanding liberty and justice for all. These twelve individuals are: Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Annie Devine, Medgar Evers, Lawrence Guyot, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Clarie Collins Harvey, Aaron Henry, John R. Lynch, Thomas W. Stringer, Unita Blackwell, and Vernon Dahmer. The effort and sacrifices made by these patriots not only helped ensure democracy for all Mississippians but all Americans as well. These individuals challenged the status-quo, urging that the phrase “We the People” should include all people.
Their actions and the reasons why we are considering them “Mississippi Founders” will be explained in a traveling exhibit. We hope to impart on all walks of life that these “founders” represent the best of what patriotism and devotion to one’s country means, with some of them paying the ultimate sacrifice in the name of equality. They helped change the landscape of our country socially and politically for the betterment of society and we as Mississippians should be eternally proud.
Also, the MHC has produced interstitials with Mississippi Public Broadcasting that accompany the exhibit. You can find these interstitials on the MHC and MPB YouTube pages. They inlcude guests like Cong. Bennie G. Thompson, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hoseman, Ms. Reena Evers, and Mayor Robin Tannehill give life to the various interstitial scripts uplifting our list of “Mississippi Founders”.
MPU is currently at The Quisenberry Library in Clinton MS from now until December 21st
MPU is also still being hosted by The Oren Dunn City in Tupelo and will be traveling to Delta State January 3rd

How Do We Support Public Education
2022-11-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Lake Terrace Convention Center, One Convention Center Plaza, Hattiesburg, MS, 39401, United States
As part of the “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” Initiative, administered by the Mississippi Humanities Council with support from the Mellon Foundation, the staff of The Pine Belt News will give the public a chance to learn about the performance of local school districts – and the individual schools within them – with an upcoming community forum featuring local superintendents and Mayor Toby Barker.
Barker will moderate the event, asking questions of the following superintendents: Robert Williams (Hattiesburg Public School District), Matt Dillon (Petal School District), Steven Hampton (Lamar County School District) and Donna Boone (Forrest County Agricultural School District). Brian Freeman, superintendent of the Forrest County School District, wished to attend but will be out of town that week for a prior obligation.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

The primary function of a superintendent in today’s school systems;
Primary initiatives to focus on in the upcoming school years;
Trends in education;
The correlation between parent engagement and student outcomes;
Community relation programs; and
How the community can help foster excellence in public education.

Lunch and Learn with scholar Dr. Donald "Field" Brown
2023-01-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Catfish Row Museum, 913 Washington Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 39183
Brown to lead program on the legacy of the ‘Vickburg Citizens’ Appeal.’

Brown characterizes the Vicksburg Citizens’ Appeal as “a racial uplift newspaper” that encouraged Black parents to attend PTA meetings and stressed the importance of preparing the next generation to enter the world. Join us as he discusses the role the Vicksburg Citizens’ Appeal newspaper played in Freedom Summer and securing voting rights! Lunch will be provided.
Learn more: https://buff.ly/3X43Idp
This program is sponsored by Visit Vicksburg and The Mississippi Humanities Council

Ideas on Tap "Banned Books: The Student Perspective"
2023-01-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Hal & Mal’s, 200 Commerce Street, Jackson, MS, 39201, United States
In the last year, school districts and libraries across Mississippi have begun restricting access to books deemed to have mature content. This means students in certain school districts no longer have easy access to a world of literature filled with characters and situations that mirror their own lives. We want to hear the students perspective. Join us January 19, 2023 at Hal & Mal’s from 5:30-7:00pm as MHC host the latest Ideas on Tap series. The panel moderator is Julia James, Education Reporter for Mississippi Today. Panelist include JohnAnna Esters: J-Tech Early College, Marina Goupalava: Madison Central, Adam Maatallah: Madison Central, Tonja Murphy: Community Engagement Coordinator for the Mississippi Book Festival.

“The Evers” Flim Screening
2023-01-19 17:30 - 20:00 | Millsaps College, 1701 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi, 39202
On January 19 at 6:00 p.m., Millsaps will host a screening of the documentary film “The Evers.” The screening will be followed by a conversation between Reena Evers-Everette of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute and Jerry Mitchell with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. The event will take place in McMullan Lecture Hall in the Selby & Richard McRae Christian Center on the Millsaps campus and will be preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m. in the same location.
The National Day of Racial Healing events are presented by the Millsaps College Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center, in collaboration with the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and the Mississippi Humanities Council.

"What We Can Learn From Dr. A.B. Holder
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Mississippi College, 200 Capitol St., Clinton, MS, 39056
Mississippi College presents a series of talks entitled, “What We Can Learn From _____.” This talk features 19th-century Mississippi physician A.B. Holder presented by Dr. Courtney Thompson of MSU. Following the talk, there will be a reception with live music by the MC Brass Ensemble.

Mississippi Founders Exhibit
2023-02-01 - 2023-02-28 | Mississippi College, 200 Capitol St., Clinton, MS, 39056
Mississippi Founders, sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities “A More Perfect Union” grant, will be hosted at Mississippi College for the month of February. The exhibit highlights twelve Mississippians who challenged America to be a more perfect union. The twelve individuals range from the Reconstruction period to the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Annie Devine, Medgar Evers, Lawrence Guyot, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Clarie Collins Harvey, Aaron Henry, John R. Lynch, Thomas W. Stringer, Unita Blackwell, and Vernon Dahmer. The effort and sacrifices made by these individuals helped ensure democracy for all Mississippians. These individuals challenged the status-quo, urging that the phrase “We the People” should include all people. For more information, contact aastudies@mc.edu.

"Inaugural Ballers." book signing with Andrew Maraniss
2023-02-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Lemuria Book Store, 4465 I-55 STE 20, Jackson, MS, 39206, United States
Book Signing event with Andrew Maraniss: “Inaugural Ballers. The True Story of the First U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team”
From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of the birth of women’s Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women’s basketball on the map. Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown.
A League of Their Own meets Miracle in the inspirational true story of the first US Women’s Olympic Basketball team and their unlikely rise to the top.
Twenty years before women’s soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the ’76 US women’s basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women’s sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels.
Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the ’76 Olympics, the American team included a roster of players who would go on to become some of the most legendary figures in the history of basketball. From Pat Head, Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers, Lusia Harris, coach Billie Moore, and beyond—these women took on the world and proved everyone wrong.
Packed with black-and-white photos and thoroughly researched details about the beginnings of US women’s basketball, Inaugural Ballers is the fascinating story of the women who paved the way for girls everywhere.
New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss writes sports and history-related nonfiction, telling stories with a larger social message. His first book, Strong Inside, received the Lillian Smith Book Award for civil rights and the RFK Book Awards’ Special Recognition Prize for social justice, becoming the first sports-related book ever to win either award. His young readers adaptation of Strong Inside was named one of the Top Biographies for Youth by the American Library Association and was named a Notable Social Studies Book by the Children’s Book Council. His acclaimed second book for kids Games of Deception was a Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Honor Recipient, a Junior Library Guild selection, and was praised by authors Steve Sheinkin and Susan Campbell Bartoletti. He is also the author of Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke. Andrew is a contributor to ESPN’s sports and race website, TheUndefeated.com, and is a visiting author at the Vanderbilt University Athletic Department.

Mississippi Founders Exhibit
2023-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Mississippi College, 200 Capitol St., Clinton, MS, 39056
Mississippi College African American Studies presents MS Founders and Black Resistance. This exhibit is accompany to a speaker series presentation to address topics related to the exhibits themes. Dr. Kellie Cherie Carter Jackson of Wellesley College will speak from her book, Force and Freedom, which analyzes the history of black abolitionism, as well as forthcoming book project on black response to white violence. Keynote Lecture Feb 9th at JPW Recital Hall

Jackson Book Festival 2023
2023-02-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Blvd., jackson, MS, 39213, United States
The 2023 Jackson Book Fair will host Book Talks, Book Sales and Signings, Art/Craft Vendors, Photo Ops, Live Entertainment, Black History Theme, an Intellectual Revolution, a literary family friendly affair.
Admission is free and open to the public
Poetry Contest Level
Elementary School, write at least a 4 line stanza
Middle School, write at least 2 (4) line stanzas
H.S. & Adult Contest, write at least 4 mixed (line) stanzas 2 line minimum
Poems must be written by the poet presenter.
Published poems by the contestant are admissible

The Natchez Deacons for Defense
2023-02-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 607 Madison St., Natchez, MS, 39120, United States
The Dr. John Banks House presents The Natchez Deacons for Defense: A Dramatization by Jamal McCullen.
For the first time in Natchez’ history, a play will be held to tell the story of the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Natchez, and their role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It is set for 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 11, at Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church at 607 Madison St.
The event is free and open to the public. It will feature the creative talent of Jamal McCullen, an educator in the Natchez-Adams School District. Hosted by Rose Hill Missionary Baptist Church and representatives of the Dr. John Bowman Banks Museum, the Black History program will feature music from the 1960s and eight male students in grades eighth through 12th.
McCullen said the program “will give history lessons while entertaining. The music will help to give the story context.”

Medicine Wheel Garden
2023-02-18 10:00 - 12:00 | USM Liberal Arts Building, 114 N. 31st Ave., Hattiesburg, MS, 39401
The University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for American Indian Research and Studies will host a four-part series of public lectures and demonstrations exploring how Native Ancestors across the southeast used native plants, shells and soils in their daily lives. The program series, entitled “Yakni Achukma, Okla Achukma (Healthy Land, Healthy People),” is supported with a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council and will take place at the Southern Miss Medicine Wheel Garden located on the USM campus.
The lecture and demonstrations series begins Feb. 18 at 10:00 a.m. the Southern Miss Medicine Wheel Garden located on the USM campus near the Liberal Arts Building. Jeanette Stone, a retired educator with 20 years of expertise experimenting with natural fibers, will discuss “Plant-Based Cordage and Fibers.” Her presentation will explore techniques of the Southeastern Muskogean communities for using plant materials such as yucca and palmetto plant leaves, cattails, tree bark and Spanish moss to create ropes for fishing nets, as well as for crafting clothing, belts, moccasins and more.
The lecture and demonstration series is free and open to the public. Future program topics will include shell carving, medicine making and creating pigments from plants.

The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on Today's Culture
2023-02-23 13:00 - 14:00 | MS
Community Library Mississippi presents The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on Today’s Culture history speaking series. Presenter Mary Hardy live on zoom and facebook live.

What We Can Learn From... Lecture Series
2023-02-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Aven Hall, 200 Capitol Street, Clinton, MS, 39056
Mississippi College presents a series of talks entitled, “What We Can Learn From _____.” This talk features Daphne Chamberlain presenting on youth involvement in the Civil Rights movement. “Oh Freedom! Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs and the Young People Who Made the Jackson Movement.
Following the talk, there will be a reception with live music by the MC Brass Ensemble.

Natchez Literary & Cinema Celebration
2023-02-24 - 2023-02-25 | Natchez Convention Center, 211 Main Street, Natchez, MS, 39120
This annual celebration, which began in 1990, is a theme-based lecture series enhanced by films, workshops, exhibitions, book signings, concerts, discussions and more. The conference is made possible in part by the Mississippi Humanities Council. Here’s a list of presenters:
Dr. Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
(Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Dr. Jonathan White, A House Built by Slaves, African American Visitors to
the Lincoln White House (Rowman and Littlefi eld, 2022)
Dr. Joan DeJean, Mutinous Women, How French Convicts Became
Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (Basic Books, 2022)
Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Skirts, Fashioning Modern Femininity
in the Twentieth Century (St. Martin’s Press, 2022)
Julie Hines Mabus, Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen (University
Press of MS, 2022)
Dr. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, Southern Beauty, Race, Ritual, and Memory
in the Modern South (University of Georgia Press, 2022)
Dr. Jodi Skipper, Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and
Heritage in the U.S. South (University of Iowa Press, 2022)
Amy Argetsinger, There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America (Atria/
One Signal Publishers, 2021)
Kristen Green, The Devil’s Half Acre, the Untold Story of How One Woman
Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail (Seal Press, 2022)
Danielle Dreilinger, The Secret History of Home Economics, How
Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way
We Live (WW Norton and Co, 2021)
Dr. Thavolia Glymph, The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home,
Freedom, and Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
Shelby Harriel, Behind the Rifl e, Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi
(University Press of Mississippi, 2019)
Dr. Rebecca Sharpless, Grain and Fire, a History of Baking in the American
South (University of North Carolina Press, 2022)
Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans (A John Scognamiglio
Book, 2022) and The Abolitionist’s Daughter (A John Scognamiglio Book,
2019)
Dr. Sarah Adlakha, She Wouldn’t Change a Thing (Forge Books, 2021) and
Midnight on the Marne (Forge Books, 2022)
Valerie Martin, Property (Vintage, 2004), Mary Reilly (Vintage, 2001), The
Great Divorce (Bantam, 1995)
Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
(Da Capo Press, 2001)
Nicole A. Taylor, Watermelon & Red Birds, A Cookbook for Juneteenth and
Black Celebrations (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Dr. Gail Myers, Rhythms of the Land, a multimedia fi lm documentary, 2022
Timothy Givens, The Saloon, a fi lm documentary, 2022

The Impact of Rap Music on Today's Youth
2023-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | zoom
Community Library Mississippi presents The Impact of Rap Music on Today’s Youth Community Speaking Series presented Malesha Smith live on Zoom and Facebook Live. Get your tickets at eventbrite.com or email communitylibrary.ms@gmail.com for more information.

Meridian History Walk
2023-02-25 12:00 - 16:00 | Meridian, MS
From the Civil War burning of Meridian to a tornado wiping out the city’s business district 1906, the history of the Queen City will come alive for area residents Saturday during the second annual Meridian Downtown History Walk. Free to the public, the self-guided history walk will begin at noon and run until 4 p.m. Attendees can pick up tour maps at Dumont Plaza. Also new will be a story presented by the Meridian Freedom Project on the old E.F. Young Hotel and its historical importance. The skit will center around the hotel’s inclusion in the Green Book, a travel guide published during segregation in the South that identified hotels and businesses that would accept African American customers. The downtown history walk is funded in part by The Mississippi Humanities Council, Lauderdale Tourism and the East Mississippi Community Foundation…an estimated 1,000 people attended last year’s event.
