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Venture into the Past: Jurassic Quest Comes to Jackson

Jurassic Quest, billed as one of the largest and most realistic dinosaur exhibits in North America, is coming to the Jackson Convention Complex from Friday, Oct. 22, through Sunday, Oct. 24. The edutainment event features 100 life-size animatronic dinosaur models, dinosaur-themed rides, interactive science and art activities and informational shows from Jurassic Quest’s team of “dinosaur trainers” covering prehistoric life and fossils from around the country.

Dustin Cardon October 22, 2021

Rocco Buttlier standing in front of a lego build

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Creativity and Ingenuity: BrickUniverse Brings First LEGO Fan Expo to Mississippi

This weekend in Pearl, fans of architecture and LEGO products alike can view Rocco Buttliere’s dozens of intricate Lego builds from his “Landmark / Landscape” collection, which comprises models of iconic cultural landmarks from across the globe.

Nate Schumann September 17, 2021

An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918.

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How Black Cartographers Put Racism on the Map of America

The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and a documentary, helps illustrate how cartography—the practice of making and using maps—can illuminate injustice. Cartography is a less documented aspect of the Panthers’ activism, but the group used maps to reimagine the cities where African Americans lived and struggled.

Derek H. Alderman and Joshua F.J. Inwood March 5, 2021

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Neighborhoods with MLK Streets Are Poorer Than National Average and Highly Segregated, Study Reveals

Most of America’s MLK neighborhoods, from east Montgomery, Alabama, to Harlem in New York City, were born of legal or de facto racial segregation. And in the second half of the 20th century, they experienced the sharpest decline in urban industry, sending local jobs from the cities to suburbs. These historic events first caused, then structurally perpetuated, deprivation in MLK neighborhoods.

Sweta Tiwari and Dr. Shrinidhi Ambinakudige January 17, 2021