Celebrating the Choctaw Homeland: Pearl River Elementary Students March, Dance and Rejoice
Pearl River Elementary School organizes the yearly Pearl River Spring Festival to celebrate the spring season, as well as the end of the school year.
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Pearl River Elementary School organizes the yearly Pearl River Spring Festival to celebrate the spring season, as well as the end of the school year.
Voter restoration is one of many issues plaguing Mississippi, but a new collaboration between the Southern Poverty Law Center and Tougaloo College is looking to train the next up-and-coming generation of activists to effectively work toward voting rights with an advocacy institute.
A group of Black community leaders founded the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Jonesboro, La., with the goal of protecting the Black community and fighting back against KKK violence.
The Mississippi Museum of Art presents “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration,” an exhibit showcasing 12 artists and their personal connections to the Great Migration movement through film, art, sound and sculpture. The exhibition is open to view until September 11, 2022.
Kids for Wish Kids Coordinator Jane Walsh has worked for the Make-A-Wish Mississippi chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation for more than 20 years, helping schools come up with ideas for how to raise money to help grant kids’ wishes.
The Social Action Committee of the Jackson (MS) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is using public forums to bring community voices together on issues that affect Mississippians. The forums have focused on topics like health equity, redistricting, voter suppression, supporting gender equality and educational disparities and inequalities.
The “Breaking Bread” Itta Bena project encourages unity and communication between Mississippi Valley State University and the Itta Bena community.
The speeches, songs and interviews of Fannie Lou Hamer are available for the world to witness in “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America,” a new documentary film that opened the 10th season of “America Reframed” on PBS on Feb. 22.
Getty Images selected Jackson State University as one of four recipients of the Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for HBCUs program to amplify the visual history of historic Black colleges and universities.
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