Robert Luckett, history professor and head of the Margaret Walker Center, writes: Our governor and the Legislature want to revamp MAEP and strengthen charter schools. We must be wary. It's not by chance that modern school-choice "reform" has a strong connotation with our racist past. Many in the state's white leadership are products of white-flight...Read More

The program hopes to address the professional shortage of "ethnic" Ph.D. students and the lack of history M.A. programs in central Mississippi.   Learn more at “Jackson State Opens MA Plan in History.” Clarion-Ledger. October 6, 1974.Read More

JSU history and other faculty offer a Cross Cultural Awareness program for teachers on Africa. Learn more at “Institutes Set for Teachers.” The Yazoo Herald. May 26, 1984.Read More

History major Mallory Turner attends inauguration of America's first black president. Learn more at “Turner to Attend Obama Inauguration.” Enterprise-Journal. January 18, 2009.Read More

"We, blacks and whites, members of the History and Political Science faculty of Jackson State College," the statement reads, deplore and condemn the actions on May 14-15 of the local and state police in unleashing a thirty-second fusillade of several hundred bullets into the crowds of people within and near the women's dormitory…  Such actions, in...Read More