Events

Red, White, and Biloxi: An America250 Celebration, July 4, 5-9:30 p.m. Biloxi Town Green 710 Beach Blvd. Family-friendly celebration honoring the nation’s heritage with music, history, entertainment, and fireworks. Patriotic music, a dramatic presentation at 7 p.m., Unfazed Show & Band at 9 p.m., vendors, food trucks, and fireworks. Free admission. Details: 228-435-6339

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council will expand its annual June Summer Sunset Concert Series with a special July 4th celebration in Oxford in 2026. The project blends live concerts highlighting Mississippi’s musical traditions with historian-curated readings and writing prompts on democracy, plus short documentary films exploring how Mississippi’s culture shapes the arts. Designed as a free, […]

From Douglass to Duck Hill An evening of remembrance, reflection, storytelling, and racial healing connecting the enduring words of Fredrick Douglass to the 1937 lynching of Roosevelt "Red" Townes and Robert "Bootjack" McDaniels in Duck Hill, MS. Virtual attendance is also available. Sunday, July 5 5-7 p.m. St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral 305 E. Capitol St. […]

We are planning a party!  Thank you to the Mississippi250 Grant Committee with the Mississippi Humanities Council for our matching grant to provide an America250 Birthday Party for you at your Lawrence County Civic Center! It is an exciting time for our country and for us!Our building will be celebrating its 100th Birthday, so we […]

William Arinder presents “Pioneer Toys, Games, and Music” on July 9, 2026, at 10 a.m. A living history program about the early pioneer settlers in Mississippi. Discussion centers around how they dressed, built their homes, produced and cooked their food, created children’s homemade toys, and made music on the mountain dulcimer. Period clothing worn, hands-on artifacts […]

This is the third in the series of luncheon lectures coming to the MS Ag & Forestry Museum. The highlight of this lecture will be Mound Bayou Museum & African American History & Culture. In the Heritage Center Auditorium, July 10th from Noon - 1PM. Rev. Darryl Johnson & Hermon Johnson, present a program about […]

On July 11, 2026, Foxfire Ranch invites our kinfolk, and community to a neighborhood reunion from 10 AM to 6PM celebrating over 250 years of Black land stewardship, story, and song. Rooted in the living traditions from our nook of the North Mississippi Hill Country— the day weaves together remembrance, planting ceremonies, community quilting, podcast […]

Be Part of History! Help Us Fill a Time Capsule! Our library is starting a fun new project called "Voices of Mid-Mississippi: A Community Time Capsule!" We want to save our thoughts and memories from today for people to open in the future—50 years from now, during the America 300 birthday celebration! What is a […]

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council and your local community to continue discussions about Drew’s Freedom Memory Project. Tuesday, July 14, at 2 p.m.167 North Main Street The event is free and open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to participate in the conversation. Refreshments will be provided.Info: ggloria150@msn.com   

Dr. Rebecca Tuuri’s presentation examines the first fifty years of the women’s suffrage in Mississippi, with a focus on the work of the Mississippi League of Women Voters (LWV) from the months before the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment through the late 1960s when the state’s League was transformed into the progressive and […]

Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country.  Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […]

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council and your local community to continue discussions about Jackson’s Freedom Memory Project. Saturday, July 18, at 11 a.m.Smith Robertson Museum (528 Bloom Street) The event is free and open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to participate in the conversation. Refreshments will be provided. Info: knoelsweet@gmail.com

Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country.  Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […]

Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country.  Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […]

Join us for a free event featuring a screening of Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums. A 60-minute showing of this two hour documentary features interviews with Evers’s family, colleagues, and historians honoring the life, work, and impact […]

Happy Birthday, America is an original musical celebrating the 250th birthday of America, and Mississippi's part in forming our country.  Performed by a cast of kids and adults of all ages, audiences will be delighted at this sometimes funny, sometimes not, presentation. Told through story and music, we guarantee you'll be tapping your feet and […]

This production of Central MS Blues Society, Inc. will bring three blues artists, all Mississippi women who are known to blues lovers worldwide, will share their music and stories of their struggles and successes as African American blues women in America. The music will be accompanied by a Jackson area blues band. Free and open […]