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.
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 in […]
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 […]
Join us for the Central Region of Mississippi Poetry Out Loud Contest at noon, Wednesday, January 31, in the JSU Student Center Theater. Free and open to the public, this event is sponsored by the Mississippi Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation.
Free and open to the public, the annual Jubilee Picnic celebrates Margaret Walker’s birthday. Join us for food, fun, and fellowship at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, July 7, at the Margaret Walker Center in Ayer Hall on the campus of Jackson State University as we cut the cake for what would have been our founder’s […]
Join us for the 53rd annual Gibbs-Green Commemoration and wreath-laying in Ayer Hall on the campus of Jackson State University from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. A special virtual reality experience will be unveiled thanks to the support from the JSU Division of Research and Economic Development. A reception will […]
Schedule of Events Friday, April 14 The Future of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State: A Feasibility Study Sharice McCain, Marlin King and Christina Berry, NEOO Partners Robert Luckett, MWC Director JSU Student Center Theater 2:00 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. The Legacy of Margaret Walker Dr. Maryemma Graham and Dr. Carolyn Denard […]
Documentary Screening with Freedom Riders Hezekiah Watkins and Rabbi Phil Posner Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube 6:00 p.m., Thursday, February 23, 2023
Poetry Out Loud is a national high school recitation contest sponsored by the Mississippi Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation. This statewide preliminary contest is free and open to the public.