The 2023 Mississippi Invitational’s theme, “Gulfs among Us,” threads through the show, resonating on multiple levels: in artwork centered in this region, and as a response to rifts of all types—social, political, cultural, environmental and internal.
Notable features of the Water Valley Watermelon Carnival include a watermelon drop, a street dance, live music, vendors, a fireworks display, a 3k run and walk, a car show, and a barbecue cooking contest, as well as watermelon-eating, seed-spitting and largest-watermelon competitions.
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.
In Mississippi, a number of cities owe their very existence to railways, with towns growing up around outposts that originally began only to serve the trains and rail workers, leading to the rail lines attracting industry rather than the other way around.
Changing the gender wage gap statistics is a desired outcome as DSC Training Academy and Mississippi Coding Academy partner to open a new coding campus in south Jackson. The new academy’s location will operate out of the workforce development center on Interstate 55 South Frontage Road and will offer convenience for potential coders from south Jackson, Hinds County and the metro area, DSC Training Academy President Willie Jones said at a virtual press conference on April 8.
“It’s sort of on-demand … basically like a DVR. It lets people have a live experience, but if they don’t have time, they don’t have to miss it.”
In the creepy and cavernous old building, Michael Farris Smith sits on a stool and shares a haunting passage from “Blackwood.” The virtual reading on
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