The presenter, 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 the […]
HOMEGROWN is a full-day literary arts event, -- free and open to the public -- that presents acclaimed southern authors in moderated panel discussions that cut across multiple current, timely, […]
Please join the mothers and daughters of the Blossoms Mother-Daughter Reading Club as we celebrate the 2025 African American Read-In.
Megan Eidt is Itawamba Community College 's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Eidt's lecture, In Your Face History: How Technology and Mass Media Have Transformed the Study of History, will […]
Dr. Emily Pollard is Northeast Mississippi Community College's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Pollard's lecture, The Heart of Humanities: Fostering Understanding, Culture, and Connection, will be presented 2/4/25 at 6:00 […]
In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette visited Natchez on his farewell tour of America. Learn more from William "Brother" Rogers about who he was and why this historic event was […]
Priscilla Hartley will present the 2025 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Copiah-Lincoln Community College: Me, Myself and AI (Artificial Intelligence) The lecture will take place on the Copiah-Lincoln Community College […]
Shelly Garlotte will present the 2025 Humanities Teacher Award lecture for Mississippi Valley State University: Yes, You CAN Sing Classical Music!" Experience a voice lesson as a classical music singer! […]
Dr. Vanessa Holden from the University of Kentucky will speak at Mississippi College as part of MC's continued effort to bring lived and scholarly expertise of the African American experience […]
Jesse Brown is Delta State University's 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Brown’s lecture, This is a Beast. The Beast is Us., will be presented 2/6/25 at 7:00 pm on […]
Seth Parry is Belhaven University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Parry’s lecture, Ancient Foes, Modern Narratives: Framing the Ottomans as Trojans in Venetian Humanism, will be presented 2/7/25 at 3:00 […]
Take a story walk through the eyes and feelings of African Americans from slavery to the mid-seventies with Barbara J. Clark. Using award-winning literature via stories and poetry, the audience […]
