Speaker Series: Yvonne Lewis Day
The 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]
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Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United States
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Windsor Ruins presented by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Mississippi Cultural Crossroads building 507 Market St, Port Gibson, MS, United StatesPlease join us for our upcoming educational programs on Windsor Ruins presented by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a historian at Ohio State University. The first, “The Untold Stories of Enslavement […]
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History Is Lunch: “(Mis)Remembering the Past: From Slavery to Civil Rights”
TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS 222 NORTH STREET , JACKSON, MS, United StatesThe Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s (MDAH) History Is Lunch (HIL) lecture series has delved into Mississippi’s history, providing a platform for dynamic presentations by esteemed scholars, experts, authors, […]
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Speakers Bureau: “Mississippi Telling”
Cambridge Methodist Church 212 Ross Ave, Oxford, MS, United StatesThe presenter, Dr. Rebecca Jernigan, 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 […]
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I Believe I’ll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson’s Copiah Country Roots and Living Legacy
TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS 222 NORTH STREET , JACKSON, MS, United StatesSunday Screening: "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah Country Roots and Living Legacy is at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of […]
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Reading the Room
Urban Foxes Jackson, MS, United StatesThe Mississippi Humanities Council is pleased to partner with the Mississippi Book Festival and Urban Foxes to present our next "Reading the Room" event. If you love reading, socializing and […]
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Blues on 5th Street
Laurel Jones County Black History Museum and Arts 820 W 5th St, Laurel, United StatesLet’s Talk About The Blues! Pine Belt Blues That Is! While honoring Mr. T-Bone Pruitt. Pinebelt Blues is shaping up to be a genre of blues coming straight from the […]
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Speakers Bureau: “Mississippi Telling”
Boys and Girls Club of North Mississippi 1242 S Green St, Tupelo, MS, United StatesThe presenter, Dr. Rebecca Jernigan, 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 […]
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57th MLK Convocation
Jackson State University 1400 J.R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MSDeciding that she would rather celebrate his birth and achievements rather than focus on his death, Margaret Walker sponsored one of the first birthday convocations for Dr. Martin Luther King, […]
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Sunday Screening: Always a Winner: Roy Curry, A Quarterback Ahead of His Time
Join us for a free screening of "Always a Winner: Roy Curry, A Quarterback Ahead of His Time" at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, at the Two Mississippi Museums! Directed […]
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Speakers Bureau: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at The University of Southern MIssissippi 118 College Dr #5055, Hattiesburg, MS, United StatesSpeaker Diane Williams is a neo-griot, along the lines of the storytellers from times gone by when oral historians were crucial to maintaining black folks’ history because book publishers didn’t […]
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Speaker Series: Matthew Skic
Historic Natchez Foundation 108 S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS, United StatesThe 2024-2025 season is an annual program of the Natchez Historical Society, consisting of 8 regular monthly presentations by expert speakers on humanities topics pertinent to the history of the […]
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