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The Pride display at the Bryan Public Library in West Point, Miss., shared part of the existing collection in June 2022.
Dr. Shawn Lambert and his team will place Interactive panels at the locations of their digs, explaining the objects found there and the purposes of the buildings that once stood at their locations.
Calvin Hawkins has researched Black history in Yalobusha County for the last six years, and he is releasing a book entitled “Under the Dusty Sand” that contains much of his research.
Capital City Pride will hold a “Coming Home With Pride” celebration in October 2022 that welcomes LGBTQ+ Mississippians who had previously left the state.
Recently, Pearl River Community College graduate Hanna Lambert received the chance to further pursue her childhood dream of opening her own veterinary practice when she became a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
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.
CJ Winship (she/her) shares how Ridgeland Public Library gave her the resources she needed to reassure that she wasn’t broken just because she was gay. The representation of LGBTQ people like her in books helped CJ be at ease with just being herself.
Children at the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center were abused, a lawsuit filed in 2011 alleged, which led to a federal consent decree forcing Hinds County to make changes to its operations. Magistrate Judge F. Keith Ball is holding a hearing in his chambers today concerning the settlement that Southern Poverty Law Center and Disability Rights Mississippi reached with the county. The Zoom hearing, which is closed to the public, is part of an ongoing federal court supervision of the settlement agreement’s implementation.
“Adventures in the Imagination: Chuck Galey,” a new exhibition available at The Music + Arts Experience in Meridian through March 12, puts a retrospective of the Jackson illustrator’s artwork on display.
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