Events

Hope Policy Institute, Mississippi NAACP, Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative, Children’s Defense Fund, Mississippi Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 28, 2021

From traditional green historical markers to the Mississippi Blues Trail, Freedom Trail, Country Music Trail, and Mississippi Mound Trail, the state’s history is told along its roads. The speaker takes a fun romp through history that will interest anyone who likes fascinating trivia about the state. Learn More: https://visitcarrolltonms.com/carrollton-pilgrimage/  

On March 10, 1969 52 students were arrested at the Black Students sit-in and spent the night at Parchman Penitentiary.  This film tells the story of the sit-in from the perspectives of four students, as told to current Delta State students. The screening will take place at the Bologna Performing Arts Center, and will consist […]

Marino Casem, the longtime coach at Alcorn State University and Southern University, once famously stated that “in the South, college football is a religion, and every Sunday is a holy day.” This is certainly true for teams in the Southeastern Conference and especially true for Mississippi. Each fall, hundreds of thousands of loyal fans flock […]

Join us on Facebook Live as we present Ideas On Tap: Rural Education in Mississippi, a virtual panel discussion on October 5 at 5:30pm. This program was inspired by the recent New York Times article "The Tragedy of America's Rural Schools", written by Casey Parks. The article addresses various issues taking place among America's rural […]

On October 6, the MHC will partner with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to host a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film Civil War (or Who Do We Think We Are?) at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The film, created and produced by Rachel Boynton, addresses Civil War memory and how the Reconstruction […]

The talk, accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, will present the case for a new understanding of Mississippi’s past. The speaker will argue that the Eurocentric past account ignored the role of blacks, Indians, women and minorities, providing example biographies to prove the case. Touching on neglected topics such as the history of the ecology, the […]

In the early 20th century the cotton boll weevil, a nasty little beetle that had already destroyed millions of pounds of cotton in Texas and Louisiana, stood on the western banks of the Mississippi River poised to invade the richest and most important cotton land in the world: the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. In the months and […]

Mississippi University for Women will partner with the Guerrilla Girls, a group of feminist activists that uses political art to fight sexism, racism and corruption in society, for a virtual event at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, on Zoom. The event is a collaboration between the Ina E. Gordy Honors College, the NEW Leadership Mississippi […]