Michael Morris, the Director of the Two Mississippi Museums, The Museum of Mississippi History and The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, is a proud Jackson native and graduate of Jackson State […]
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Shannon “Bayou” Williford
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Shannon “Bayou” Williford’s history as a musician starts with listening to blues growing up in Jackson, MS; then learning harmonica in the jook joints of Baton Rouge and becoming fairly […]
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Ann Fisher-Wirth is the Mississippi Poet Laureate for the 2025-2029 term. Her eighth book of poems, Into the Chalice of Your Thoughts, is a poetry/photography collaboration with Wilfried Raussert and […]
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A lifelong Mississippian, Jeffrey Martin has worked as a public librarian in the state for more than a decade. He received his B.A. E.D. in English Education from the University […]
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Wilma E. Mosley Clopton, Ph.D., is an award-winning video historian and filmmaker who serves as president of NMHS Unlimited Film Productions, a Jackson, Mississippi-based nonprofit organization with the mission of […]
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For over three decades, Andi Lehman has worked in the Midsouth to rescue and protect animals and to teach people about domestic, wild, and exotic creatures. She was a wildlife […]
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Brooke P. Alexander is a painter from Athens, Alabama. She completed her BA in Studio Art with a minor in English in 2015 from Athens State University, and her MFA […]
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Dr. Courtney Luckhardt is an early medieval social and cultural historian at the University of Southern Mississippi, with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Her […]
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Kevin Enos Brown, an author, artist, and community advocate from McComb, MS, provides a compelling view of the civil rights movement. As founder of Gertrude’s Garden, a Burglund communal green […]
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Dr. Tom Lewis is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on understanding the role of language and linguistic ideologies in reflecting and reproducing systemic inequalities in contemporary American society. His […]
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Jennifer Mack has worked in the archeology field since 1998, spending much of that time researching and excavating 19th century and early 20th century cemeteries. In her position with the […]
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