The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University is seeking a Visiting Scholar, whose research interests include the Black Arts Movement, the Black Studies Movement, or the Modem Civil Rights Movement. Founded by the writer and scholar Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center is an archive, museum, and Black Studies institute, dedicated to the preservation,...Read More

Join us for this panel and opening reception at the Margaret Walker Center in Ayer Hall at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 10, for a special exhibition, Housing Insecurity in Mississippi. The official exhibit opening will immediately follow in the nearby Johnson Hall Art Gallery at Jackson State University. Read More

Dorothy Moore was offered a recording contract after consistently winning the Wednesday night talent contests at the Alamo Theatre while in junior high. In 1966, she recorded an album as the lead singer of the vocal group the Poppies, which she had joined while she was a student at Jackson State. Moore later sang background...Read More