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Putting Art into STEM: Belhaven University Collaboration Builds Creative Maker Movement

Unlike many universities with a maker program, Belhaven includes an arts component, a point of pride for the school. Students will learn and work on projects of their own interests as it relates to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). The program encourages students to seek connections between disciplines and foster an autonomous maker culture at Belhaven.

Aliyah Veal August 17, 2021

Culture

Madison Central Student Yasmine Ware’s ‘Oreo’ Podcast a NYT Contest Winner

“I talked to my teacher about how everyone was calling me an oreo because at the time, it was a very hurtful comment. I’d always been around mostly white people, and to be in this new Black community and to feel rejected by that community, a community that I really wanted to be a part of, was very difficult,” teenager Yasmike Ware explains about her award-winning “OREOntation” podcast.

Aliyah Veal July 28, 2021

Culture

CORE Activist George Raymond Immortalized in Arc of Freedom’s New Documentary

George Raymond was a teenager when he came to Mississippi from New Orleans to fight for Black freedom and voting rights. He could have been driving the car instead of James Chaney on Father’s Day, 1964, when the KKK killed three civil rights workers in Neshoba County.

Aliyah Veal July 16, 2021

Culture

Comeback from COVID: Fair Again Celebrates Choctaw Culture, Hosts Stickball World Series

Our fair, in Neshoba County, means different things to each of us, but collectively, it is a time to get together as a tribe and showcase our rich culture and openly invite the public to visit us and learn about us in our homeland that my ancestors refused to leave during the removal period of the 1820s and 1830s.

Today’s Choctaw Indian Fair looks much different than its very simple, humble beginnings. Tribal members exhibited their garden produce at the time, just as our ancestors did during harvest season when the gathering in the old days was known as the New Corn Ceremony or the Green Corn Festival. A princess pageant wasn’t part of the Fair until 1955, and country-music concerts added a decade later.

Roger Amos July 12, 2021

Culture

More Than Bones and Science: Stolen Chickasaw Remains Finally Returning Home to Rest

In March 2021, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced that it has repatriated 403 Native American remains and 83 lots of burial objects to the Chickasaw Nation, the largest return of human remains in the state’s history and the first for the department. The repatriation started a year ago in January 2020 and is ongoing as the department is about halfway through the process.

Aliyah Veal June 30, 2021

Culture

‘Evicted’ Exhibit at Margaret Walker Center Highlights Eviction Realities, Disparities in Mississippi, Beyond

As the state starts to emerge from the 16-month darkness of the pandemic—which saw 16% of Mississippians unemployed at its peak—the eviction crisis has the potential to become even worse. The Aspen Institute estimates that 58% of Mississippi renters will be at risk of homelessness by the end of 2021.

Taylor McKay Hathorn June 26, 2021

Culture

‘An Agenda to Bring Light’: Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign Wants ‘Third Reconstruction’

The Poor People’s Campaign’s “Third Reconstruction” resolution highlights what it calls a congressional failure to elevate the poor through social programs, voting-rights expansion and the elimination of systemic racism. It details suggested solutions for each of these problems, including an increase in the long-stagnant federal minimum wage, provisions to expand insurance coverage, a large-scale reduction of student debt and prison reform.

Taylor McKay Hathorn June 18, 2021

Culture

Rooted in Unity and Defiance, Operation Shoestring Innovates to Serve Children During Pandemic

The Shoestring team not only worried for themselves and their own families as the pandemic ascended, but for the children of high-poverty Georgetown and MidCity neighborhoods in Jackson where the organization has been providing support for 53 years. Its goals are to ensure access to education, health and self-sufficiency services for Jackson Public Schools students in grades pre-K through 12.

Torsheta Jackson June 10, 2021

Culture

Amid Apology and Regret for Police Murders of Gibbs and Green, JSU Class of ’70 Finally Marches

Tragedy marred the first attempt to have a long-delayed 1970 Jackson State graduation, and the pandemic ruined the second attempt scheduled for the 50th anniversary in 2020. Graduates finally got to march in 2021, honoring might have been for Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, killed by police.

Aliyah Veal May 25, 2021

Category: Culture

Putting Art into STEM: Belhaven University Collaboration Builds Creative Maker Movement

Madison Central Student Yasmine Ware’s ‘Oreo’ Podcast a NYT Contest Winner

CORE Activist George Raymond Immortalized in Arc of Freedom’s New Documentary

Comeback from COVID: Fair Again Celebrates Choctaw Culture, Hosts Stickball World Series

More Than Bones and Science: Stolen Chickasaw Remains Finally Returning Home to Rest

‘Evicted’ Exhibit at Margaret Walker Center Highlights Eviction Realities, Disparities in Mississippi, Beyond

‘An Agenda to Bring Light’: Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign Wants ‘Third Reconstruction’

Rooted in Unity and Defiance, Operation Shoestring Innovates to Serve Children During Pandemic

Amid Apology and Regret for Police Murders of Gibbs and Green, JSU Class of ’70 Finally Marches

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