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FEBRUARY 8, 2015 | BY EDWIN SMITH “Lift Every Voice” is traditionally known as the Negro national anthem, but the song title is also the name of an annual award presented at the University of...

Jodi Skipper, assistant professor of anthropology and Southern Studies, received the Award of Merit to Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc., from the Mississippi Historical Society at...

November 19, 2015 Work by Jodi Skipper, assistant professor of anthropology and Southern Studies, and Carolyn Freiwald, assistant professor of anthropology, on the Behind the Big House Project in...

Derrick Harriell, assistant professor of English and African-American studies at the University of Mississippi, has the won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2014 Poetry Award for his new...

New initiative giving Parchman penitentiary residents a fresh start in life SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 | By EDWIN SMITH   Several men imprisoned at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman are on...