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, and relevant topics pertinent to writing and publishing. This annual Mississippi-centric event includes programs which appeal to a broad scope of patrons who may be […]
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 be presented 2/4/25 at 6:00 pm on the college's campus. Eidt will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, […]
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 pm on the college’s campus. Dr. Pollard explores how the humanities cultivate empathy, celebrate diverse cultures, and build meaningful connections. From insights in social psychology […]
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 significant.
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 campus February 5, 2025 at 12:20pm.
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! The presentation will include an introduction to basic singing anatomy, music reading, and singing in a foreign language. By the end of the 'lesson,' participants […]
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 to the Mississippi College campus and the larger metro Jackson community. She is an associate professor of History, the Director of African American and Africana […]
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 the college’s campus. Brown will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in […]
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 pm on the college’s campus in the Student Center Theatre. The presentation will look at a linguistic construct used by Venetian Renaissance humanists in respect […]
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 will experience plantation life and escape, life view of a 110-year-old supercentenarian, living with Jim Crow during a motor trip down south, death of Emmitt […]
If you think the cakewalk is just a musical chairs game to win a cake, think again. Step back into the ’90s to recapture ragtime when the African American “cakewalk” dance was popular. Speaker Barbara J Clark allows you to meet the famous African American song and dance duo, Williams and Walker, who took the […]
