MCIR LIVE ‘Hate: What America Faces’. A novelist, a journalist and a lawyer examine the forms hate can take in America

For the last MCIR LIVE event of 2021, MCIR founder and host Jerry Mitchell talked to three guests who have made exploring experiences of hate in the Deep South the centerpiece of their work in new and surprising ways.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellJanuary 4, 2022MCIR Live, deep south, Greg Iles, Stanley Nelson, KKK, Ferriday, Jill Collen Jefferson, lynchings, civil rights movement, civil rights cases, cold cases

Moses Way Down Mississippi-land: A Tribute in Jackson to an Advocate for Civil Rights and Math Education

Some historians of the civil rights movement think Bob Moses, who died in July 2021, was as influential as Martin Luther King Jr., if not more so.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellNovember 23, 2021Bennie Thompson, Bob Moses, civil rights movement, Activitst, Algebra Project, Tougaloo College, HBCU, Joan Trumphauer, Freedom Summer, 3 civil rights workers, KKK, James Meredith, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Emmett Till, Young People's Project

MCIR LIVE Explores 1963 Bombing in Birmingham: ‘It Is Never Too Late for a Man To Be Held Accountable For His Crimes.’

Four people who contributed to a major chapter in civil rights history joined MCIR founder Jerry Mitchell last week to talk about justice achieved after almost 40 years.