The Southern Opportunity and Resilience Fund, known as SOAR, launched in April 2021 to offer low-interest loans of up to $100,000 to small-business owners affected by the pandemic across the South.
The “Breaking Bread” Itta Bena project encourages unity and communication between Mississippi Valley State University and the Itta Bena community.
The Jackson Kart Track at Buddy Butts Park is roughly three-eighths of a mile and is a road-course-style sprint track, which means it is purpose-built for go-kart use down to the radius of the turns, the length of the track and even the asphalt composition.
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.
On Feb. 26, the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra welcomes Alexander Markov to Tupelo, Miss., where he will play at Link Centre Concert Hall for his seventh concert with the organization, “Magnificent Markov.”
Dr. Clopton’s mother, Dr. Jesse Mosley, founded “The Negro in Mississippi Historical Society” to help others learn of their local history. Dr. Clopton continues that mission through her films.
Warn Wilson Jr. wrote and illustrated “Brown Money” in 2019 as a way of introducing children to STEM subjects, economics and possible career paths they may had not known about previously.
The city of Natchez’ centuries-old historic homes, and the wealth behind their construction, came at tremendous human cost, with the city’s prosperity built upon the backs of enslaved Black Americans.
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