Delta Blues Museum is adding a special event to kick off its 2023 Sunflower Festival activities, thanks to a Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) Mini-Grant just announced. The grant will support a special panel discussion, “From Hand to Hand: Passing Down the...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today July 20, 2023 One year after air conditioning installation began at Mississippi’s oldest and largest prison, incarcerated people in the State Penitentiary at Parchman’s Unit 29 and other prisons are still without relief from...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $15,663 in emergency supplemental funding to NEH’s state affiliate, Mississippi Humanities, to help replace cultural heritage materials in Rolling Fork that were damaged by a tornado this spring....
United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) announced The National Science Foundation has awarded $244,232 to Mississippi Valley State University. This project, entitled “Collaborative Research: CUE-T: HBCU Learning Community-based Intervention in...
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today July 13, 2023 Hours after yet another Mississippi hospital announced it was laying off workers this year, the leader of a hospital in the Mississippi Delta criticized Republican Gov. Tate Reeves for refusing to expand Medicaid access...
Dr. Omar Martinez has joined the Center for Pollinator Health at Delta Research and Extension Center as a postdoctoral fellow. A native of Colombia, Dr. Martinez earned his PhD in biological science from the University of São Paulo and has worked with professional...
