Saturday will mark the second year the event – started in 2016 by the Mississippi Children’s Museum – encompasses all four museums in Jackson’s LeFleur Museum District.
Law and Order
New season, new fears about sports betting for Mississippi football’s ‘Big Three’
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Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Southern Miss tackle the new gambling landscape head on in effort to prevent legalized wagering from negatively affecting their student-athletes
Starfish Cafe: Five years of serving fresh food and faith in Bay St. Louis
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As a community bounces back from devastating storm, this restaurant offers job training and life skills to those living on the margins
‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ challenges us to face our ghosts
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Parchman, one of the most notorious penal institutions in the world, casts a haunting shadow throughout Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel
Brenda Travis took a stand and was ordered to leave state at 17 or forfeit her freedom
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Mississippi’s Exiled Daughter is the story of how two days in 1961 forever altered the life of a 16 year old from McComb
Mississippi Culture
DeLisle: The bruised heart of Jesmyn Ward’s literary world
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Inspired by DeLisle, Bois Sauvage is a fictional rural coastal town in Mississippi. In her first novel, Where the Line Bleeds, Ward introduces readers to a rarely depicted world – a world similar, if not identical, to her own.
‘Varina’ asks if the First Lady of the Confederacy can be woke
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The novel is Charles Frazier’s fourth, his second about the Civil War after his critically acclaimed 1997 debut, Cold Mountain
Mississippi Culture
‘Levon and Kennedy’ visual proof of life after wrongful convictions
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Documentary photo book of two Mississippi men who spent a combined 29 years in prison before being exonerated through DNA testing that would eventually identify the perpetrator
Fannye Cook’s story is also a history lesson of state’s conservation efforts
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“Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist” is not just the story of one woman in Mississippi who loved measuring fish
Mississippi Culture
In ‘Loving,’ Cashin delivers unflinching history lesson on interracial intimacy
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From beginning to end, novel is a review of the nation’s tense, violent and unsavory struggle to come to terms with interracial relationships over the course of 400 years.
Mississippi Culture
‘Goat Castle’ details tragic, bizarre Natchez murder
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In the midst of the Great Depression, the nation became obsessed with the murder of a 68-year-old aristocrat and the people connected with the murder – the Goat Woman and the Wild Man
‘Lighting the Fires of Freedom’ shines a light on black women who fueled The Movement
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Author Janet Dewart Bell centers on nine strong, passionate women who committed their lives to fighting for the civil rights
‘How We Came to Be’: A story of managed and mismanaged relationships
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Johnnie Bernhard’s second novel is a mother-daughter bonding adventure
How Trump won through eyes of ‘populist revolt’ voters
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It’s hard not to think of Mississippi when you read The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Revolt Reshaping American Politics
Mississippi Culture
‘Dear Martin’ will make most readers uncomfortable — and it should
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Nic Stone’s debut bestseller, “Dear Martin” exposes how discrimination affects the daily lives of black teens, even if they play by all the rules
Mississippi Culture
‘Desperation Road’ weaves violence and compassion
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The novel by Michael Farris Smith is stressful at times with brutally depicted scenes, close calls and high stakes