Center for the Study of Southern Culture

The latest installment in the Mississippi Stories series from MDP’s Rex Jones. Here Rex features Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles, a Shelby, MS native and pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church in Memphis. Rev. Kyles tells his story of being on the Lorraine Motel balcony with Martin Luther King, Jr. when Dr. King was assassinated.

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Check out the latest in the “Mississippi Stories” series.  Produced by Media and Documentary Project’s Rex Jones, “So Wonderfully Connected” profiles Lee McCarty of McCarty’s Pottery in Merigold, Mississippi.

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Keynote address of Marian Wright Edelman as part of Women’s History Month, Black History Month, the Opening the Closed Society Initiative, and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s Future of the South Symposium at the University of Mississippi, February 21, 2012.

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Graduate Student Camilla Aikin completed an independent study with MDP’s Andy Harper on the Southern independent music scene in the 1980s.  The class, which consisted of research, writing, and oral history interviews culminates in a short film, “We Didn’t Get Famous,” Southern Music and Identity in the 1980s.

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Joe York, filmmaker. See the story of the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi. Known as “Big John’s” by its faithful customers, the Big Apple Inn’s defining duo of pig ear sandwiches and hot smoked sausage sandwiches (known as “smokes”) has kept folks coming back again and again for over 70 years, and counting. The film is made in recognition of 2009 Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame Award Winner Geno Lee.

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A film by Rex Jones, featuring M.B. Green, a custom instrument maker and musician from Louin, Mississippi.

Tales of the Islander is off of Caroline Herring’s fourth album, Golden Apples of the Sun. Caroline is a graduate of the Southern Studies MA program and will perform at the Music of the South Symposium, March 1-3.

Golden Apples of the Sun, her most intimate and mature album to date, combines haunting originals with some surprising new takes on old standards. Herring has created an album that at once recalls the folk heyday of the 1960s and 70s while also sounding entirely fresh and new.

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A short documentary film produced by the Southern Foodways Alliance about South Carolina pig farmer and tango enthusiast Emile DeFelice, owner of Caw Caw Creek Pastured Pork. This film was made possible by funding from the Biltmore Estate.

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