C Sade Turnipseed presents a lecture: "Ida B. Wells: The Mother of the American Human Rights Movement." Ida B. Wells’s life has intriguing ties to Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick […]
Since 1920 the number of farmers in America has been dropping, yet the place of farming — and of rural life generally — in the American mind is stronger than […]
This presentation, by Malcolm White, offers observations by a longtime connoisseur of Southern food and culture on topics ranging from the history of Comeback Dressing to how the tamale came […]
Dr. Candice Salyers is the University of Southern Mississippi’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Salyers’ lecture, "Women Directing Humanity: Models of Women’s Leadership in Creative Approaches to Social Change," […]
Dr. Renee Wilson is Mississippi College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Dr. Wilson's lecture, Elevated: The Influence of Vernacular Music on American Art Music, will be presented 2/18/25 at […]
Valtreasa Tolliver-Cook is Alcorn State University's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Tolliver-Cook's lecture, Service to Others: A Christian Perspective on Social Work Values, will be presented 2/20/25 at 12:30 pm […]
Dr. Sol Peláez is Mississippi State University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Dr. Peláez’ lecture, The Paradox of Narrating Violence, will be presented 2/20/25 at 3:00 pm on the college’s […]
B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center and Mississippi Humanities Council is hosting two programs for Black History Month to celebrate special stories and initiatives. Join us for this free program moderated […]
Amanda Thompson is Meridian Community College’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Thompson’s lecture, Stories That Save Us: Teaching Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust, will be presented 2/21/25 at 9:30 am […]
Ramona Brawner is Northwest Mississippi Community College‘s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Brawner’s lecture, An Act of Hope: Teaching Research-Based Academic Writing Through the Literature of Octavia E. Butler, will […]
In 1961, young Hezekiah Watkins was arrested at the Greyhound Bus Station in Jackson, Mississippi at the age of 13 where he was sent in a paddy wagon to Mississippi’s […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council, in partnership with the Visit Mississippi, will unveil a Freedom Trail marker February 25th at Canton High School 10 am in Canton to honor the extraordinary work […]
