Mississippi Public Broadcasting will air “Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town,” a documentary film looking back at the history and integration of Yazoo City schools and […]
Dr. Willis teaches educators how to integrate blues education into their lesson plans for social studies, geography and history. She gives them background information, current events, historical landmarks that are […]
Prying Open The Door. The desegregation and resegregation of Hattiesburg High. Hattiesburg High students are documenting and sharing oral histories of the racial desegregation and resegregation of their high school.
“The R.O.O.T.S of Sunflower County”,19 African American young men in Sunflower County are a part of the Sunflower County System Change Project that focuses on narrative change. ‘Story for All’ […]
This presentation 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 […]
The Mississippi River Basin model is located in Jackson, MS is a scale replica of the Mississippi River Basin. The Site, which sprawls over 200 acres, was built by local […]
The speaker will discuss how the famous Mississippi salad dressing evolved out of the Greek restaurant community in Jackson and flourished throughout the state. Malcolm White is a restaurateur, promoter, […]
GRACE Mississippi is hosting an open forum, free to the public, where three Mississippi authors/writes will read from their current literary work. Each author will speak for 30-45 minutes to […]
Dr. Willis teaches educators how to integrate blues education into their lesson plans for social studies, geography and history. She gives them background information, current events, historical landmarks that are […]
The black freedom struggle of the post-World War II era unleashed many challenges and changes on Mississippi. No area of the state’s society, politics, and culture went untouched by this […]
The presenter 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 the rich storytelling […]
Whole School Initiative presents:"The Magic to Magic: A Tool for Arts and Humanities Integration," on June 13-16,2017 at MS Gulf Coast Community College Hospitality and Resort Center, Gulfport. This annual […]
