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Sereena Henderson manages Mississippi Today’s social media and reports on Mississippi culture. She is also a member of the engagement team and curates and delivers the daily newsletter. Sereena, a native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is a graduate of the Ole Miss School of Journalism and New Media, where she worked as an anchor and correspondent for News Watch Ole Miss. Before joining the Mississippi Today team August 2016, she worked at WMC Memphis, WLOX Biloxi, WTVA Tupelo and The Sun Herald. She has received the Mississippi Associated Press Broadcasters award and the Society of Professional Journalist National Mark of Excellence Award for her multimedia coverage of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Almost 55 years since accidentally becoming the youngest Freedom Rider, Hezekiah Watkins finds chemistry with an unlikely writer to share what “was a hell of an experience.”
Ole Miss grad whose artwork appears on festival posters and T-shirts is inspired by the state’s culture and beautiful landscape.
The festival begins Thursday and features four days of movie screenings – some followed by discussion panels – and workshops that have matured into “master classes.”
Jackson-based university offers to help 16,000 Argosy students with tuition discounts to complete their degrees online or guidance in locating other schools.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and two-term U.S. Poet Laureate is expected to reflect her forward in the new edition of “Eudora Welty: Photographs”
Greenville-born Bruce Levingston is one of the country’s leading figures in contemporary music.
Jackson Indie Music Week brings Mississippi artists and fans to the capital city’s most well-known venues and hot spots
Biloxi’s Boomtown Casino welcomes a second location of Deuce McAllister’s Ole Saint Kitchen & Tap
Inside the mind that gave us Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Big Bird
These pieces reflect the artist’s process of self-discovery and his acceptance of cultural and societal experiences that shaped him
Timothy Pakron, a Mississippi native and author with a growing following, urges us to think more about where our food comes from
Through poverty, Twitter trolls and death threats, the bestselling Jackson-born author embodied the true spirit of T-H-U-G L-I-F-E
Mississippi Today reporter and photographer take you inside one of Mississippi’s treasured traditions
As a community bounces back from devastating storm, this restaurant offers job training and life skills to those living on the margins