A Look Back at the 2024 Homecoming Festival
Corey Crowder examines the impact of the 2024 MS John Hurt Homecoming Festival in light of recent efforts to silence African American history.
Corey Crowder examines the impact of the 2024 MS John Hurt Homecoming Festival in light of recent efforts to silence African American history.
This blog post contains a bid request as well as updates on our grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to preserve a juke joint in Glen Allan, MS and the St. James MB Church in Avalon, MS.
Shannon Evans has worked closely with Mary Frances Hurt of the Mississippi John Hurt Blues Foundation to help preserve St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Teoc, Mississippi. This blog post details her work over the past year.