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Jackson’s Eudora Welty Library To Be Demolished For Green Space Near Museums

by Emily Wagster Pettus April 23, 2024June 11, 2024

Jackson’s Eudora Welty Library will be demolished to make way for a new green space near two history museums in Mississippi’s capital city.

Roland Freeman closeup, wearing blue

Person of the Day | Roland Freeman: Photographer, Educator, Mentor

by Dustin Cardon October 16, 2023November 12, 2025

A man stands to the left of his stained glass artwork

Jackson Stained-Glass Artist Creates Dream Window for ‘Sandman’ Author, Neil Gaiman

by Sherry Lucas July 7, 2022June 12, 2024

Telling Every Story: Intimate Photographs, and Antics, of Bonny Parham in Amory, Miss.

by Lukas Flippo February 1, 2022June 25, 2025

William Winter

William Winter, Mississippi’s ‘Education Governor’ and Fighter for Racial Equity, Dies at 97

by David Crews December 19, 2020June 12, 2024

Performers Forge Ahead With Different Stages of ‘Live’ in the Time of COVID

by Sherry Lucas November 9, 2020June 12, 2024

A kudzu-consumed landscape sets the tone of Michael Farris Smith’s third book

‘Mississippi Is In My Blood’: Burdens, Violence and Future Films in Michael Farris Smith’s Novels

by Sherry Lucas May 2, 2020June 12, 2024