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  • Corinth Contraband Experience

    Corinth Coliseum 404 Taylor St., Corinth, MS

              Northeast Mississippi Community College has partnered with the National Park Service to create augmented reality to provide interpretation for existing statues and reliefs at the Corinth Contraband Camp.

  • The Global South and the Black Diaspora–From Mississippi to the Caribbean

    Millsaps College 1701 N. State Street, Jackson, Mississippi

    A two-day event with keynote presentations by Dr. Jarvis McInnis, the Cordelia and William Laverack Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. A graduate of Tougaloo College, Dr. McInnis's upcoming book, The Afterlives of the Plantation: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora in the Global Black South, examines black transnational identity through African American and Caribbean culture […]

  • The Global South and the Black Diaspora–From Mississippi to the Caribbean

    Delta State University 1003 W Sunflower Rd, Cleveland, MS, United States

    A two-day event with keynote presentations by Dr. Jarvis McInnis, the Cordelia and William Laverack Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. A graduate of Tougaloo College, Dr. McInnis’s upcoming book, The Afterlives of the Plantation: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora in the Global Black South, examines black transnational identity through African American and Caribbean culture and […]

  • Margaret’s Grocery: The Oral History of a Southern Vernacular Place

    Strand Theatre 717 Clay Street, Vicksburg, MS

              Located north of downtown Vicksburg on old Highway 61, Margaret's Grocery is a unique vernacular art environment created by Reverend H.D. Dennis. Margaret Rogers Dennis ran the former country store for years. When she met and married Reverend Dennis in the early 1980s, he promised her that he would transform […]

  • Bridging Cultures: Working for Equity Across Race, Class, Religion, and Ethnicity

    International Museum of Muslim Cultures 201 East Pascagoula Street, Jackson, MS

    Through its "Bridging Cultures" Program, the International Museum of Muslin Cultures utilizes its two signature exhibitions: "Muslims with Christians and Jews: An Exhibition of Covenants and Coexistence," and "The Legacy of Timbuktu: Wonders of the Written Word" to develop a series of programs and educational opportunities.  IMMC's Islamic Thought Institute engages local and national partners […]

  • Voice and Vision: Tunica-Biloxi Living History

    Walter Anderson Museum of Art 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS

    These programs are part of the Museum’s Voice and Vision initiative that stages dialogues between the works of Walter Anderson and artifacts from other collections, along with voices across time and place. Voice and Vision includes four in-gallery installations composed of artworks, objects, scholarship, and documentary fieldwork, representing a diversity of stories and experiences rooted […]

  • 50th Recollection of Gibbs-Green: Doris Derby Exhibit

    Jackson State University 1400 J.R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS

    In the spring of 1970, college and university students across the country protested against the Vietnam War, racism, gender oppression, and a host of other issues, at times leading to violent and deadly confrontations with police and national guard troops. On May 14th, 1970, students at Jackson State College staged a demonstration condemning racial discrimination […]

  • Voice and Vision: Fire and Water

    Walter Anderson Museum of Art 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS

    These programs are part of the Museum’s Voice and Vision initiative that stages dialogues between the works of Walter Anderson and artifacts from other collections, along with voices across time and place. Voice and Vision includes four in-gallery installations composed of artworks, objects, scholarship, and documentary fieldwork, representing a diversity of stories and experiences rooted […]

  • SB: Mississippi in the Great War

    Columbus-Lowndes Public Library 314 7th St N, Columbus, MS, United States

    School textbooks rarely mention much about the Great War — World War I. Although the United States only participated in the final two yeas of the conflict, it changed the world. Drawing on letters published in Mississippi newspapers from across the state, this presentation tells the story of Mississippians who participated in the Great War. […]

  • SB: Black Women and the Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1863-1965

    Black women in Mississippi actively participated in the suffrage movement after the Civil War. They fought actively for women’s suffrage even as they supported Black men and passage of the 15th Amendment. With passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, Black women could not claim victory. It would take another 40  years before they could […]

  • Ideas on Tap: Systemic Racism in America (Part I): Policing and Criminal Justice

    MHC Facebook Page

    On July 14, join the Mississippi Humanities Council for the first program in a multi-part series on systemic racism in America. The July program will address how racism exists at the systemic level in policing and criminal justice in the U.S. Panelists include Scott Colom, District Attorney for Mississippi's 16th Judicial District; Cliff Johnson, director […]

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  • SB: Over and Under the Fence

    At noon on Wednesday, July 22, as part of the #HistoryIsLunch series, Felder Rushing will present “Over and Under the Fence: Historic Passalong Plants as Social Glue.” For centuries, flowers, vegetables, and herbs that survive on little care and are easily propagated have been shared across social lines—both in the open and underground. “Those plants conjure historic […]