Mississippi Banned Book Festival

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Schedule

All events held at Millsaps College and livestreamed.

Location : The James and Madeleine McMullan Lecture Hall, Room 122 of the Richard and Selby McRae Christian Center (building 26 on this campus map).

9:00am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Myrlie Evers (virtual), Reena Evers-Everette, and Jerry Mitchell
9:10am

Erasing Stories

Rick Bragg (virtual) interviewed by Marshall Ramsey
10:30am

Erasing Truth

Julie K. Brown, Gilbert King, Anna Wolfe, moderated by Cheryl W. Thompson
12:00pm

Lunch

Erasing LGBTQ Books: Why It Happens and How It Hurts

Sponsored by Mississippi ACLU
1:00pm

Erasing Black Lives

Angie Thomas (virtual) interviewed by Ebony Lumumba
2:30pm

Erasing History

Ko Bragg, Daphne Chamberlain, Stephanie Rolph, Jay Wesley, moderated by Alan Huffman
3:45pm

Book-Banning as Dismemberment

Julia Wright (virtual)
4:00pm

Erasing Memory

Kiese Laymon and Jesmyn Ward (virtual) interviewed by W. Ralph Eubanks