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2025 CASE Festival

Call for Submissions The Margaret Walker Center invites proposals for papers, presentations, and panels for the 19th Annual Creative Arts & Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 4 & 5, 2025. The CASE Festival will feature a keynote address by Natasha Trethewey, a Mississippian, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and Pulitzer Prize-winner. […]

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The White Peril: Omo Moses Book Signing

We are very proud and excited to announce a book signing with Omo Moses for his highly anticipated family memoir, The White Peril. Omo Moses is an activist, educator, and the founder of MathTalk. He is also the son of civil rights activist Bob Moses, who largely founded and also co-directed COFO while it was in […]

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Poetry Out Loud

Join us in the Jackson State University Student Center Ballroom B at noon on January 29 for the central regional Poetry Out Loud competition. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide high school contest in which students compete by reciting poetry; winners are decided by judges using a variety of metrics like memorization and articulation. The […]

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Reflections on the Mississippi Movement

Join us at COFO on Thursday, January 16, for a special event. Reflections on the Mississippi Movement will examine two seminal works, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne and Local People by John Dittmer. An excellent panel of scholars will be present to talk with Dr. Payne about these works and engage in a general conversation about […]

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57th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation Events

Our 57th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Convocation will take place at 10:00 a.m. on January 17 in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Charles M. Payne, whose classic book I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle will be celebrating its 30th anniversary. There also will be a poetry […]

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60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

We are very excited to announce our upcoming event on October 3, the 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer! This event will feature two panels, one of scholars and one of civil rights veterans, speaking on the civil rights movement in MS. Learn about the struggle for voting rights and hear firsthand stories of activism and […]

2024 Jubilee Picnic

  Join us for the 2024 Jubilee Picnic at the COFO Civil Rights Education Center (1017 John R. Lynch Street) at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2024. Free and open to the public, the Jubilee Picnic will celebrate what would have been Margaret Walker’s 109th birthday! Enjoy barbecue and birthday cake with us.

54th Gibbs-Green Commemoration

  Join us for the 54th annual commemoration of the Gibbs-Green tragedy at Jackson State at 4 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The program will take place in front of Alexander Hall on the Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza. It is free and open to the public, and a reception will take place immediately following the event […]

2024 CASE Festival Schedule

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2024 From the Super Bowl to the Rose Bowl JSU Student Center Theater Streaming on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jsutv/ 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Free and open to the public, the 2024 CASE Festival will feature members of the Sonic Boom of the South—Bryan McKinney, Justus Merkerson, Anthony Duncan, and Treasure White—in an opening plenary conversation […]