Lafayette Community Remembrance Project - lynching memorialization

Join us for the Mississippi Remembers keynote address by author Ralph Eubanks on Saturday, September 6, at 8:30am.

His scholarship and writing focuses on focuses on Race, Identity, and the Culture and Literature of the American South. He is faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. His next book, When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land, which focuses on the Mississippi Delta, will be published January 13, 2026 by Beacon Press.

To register, visit https://oneoxford.org

Coming soon! The Mississippi Remembers: Black Student Resistance and Community Memorialization gathering opens on Friday, September 5, at 6:00pm in Oxford, MS. We're excited to host Lisa Doi, Jasper St. Bernard, Destiny Williams Levy, and Michael Morris for the opening panel.

To register, visit https://oneoxford.org/memorialization-gathering-2025

Register. Nominate. Submit. Join us Sept 5–7 in Oxford for the Memorialization Gathering, LCRP Awards nominations, and student essay contest.

Register. Nominate. Submit. Be Part of Mississippi Remembers 2025 In a time of rising resistance to truth-telling and historical reckoning, communities across Mississippi and the South are sustaining efforts to remember, reflect, and resist. “Mississippi Remembers: Black Student Resistance and Community Memorialization” brings together two powerful gatherings ...