If you would like to listen to the audio of the Great Conversations luncheon with Dean Slabach, you can listen below.
Left to right: Former Chancellor Robert Khayat, Dean Fred Slabach, and former Sen. Trent Lott attended the Great Conversations luncheon. Dean Slabach was the guest speaker.
Despite challenges over budgets and freedom of speech, high school journalism is thriving in Mississippi.
Tony Pederson, managing fellow of the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics, discusses the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100 after almost two years in hospice care. Curtis Wilkie, inaugural fellow at the Overby Center, covered Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign against Gerald Ford from the beginning for the Boston Globe, and he was White House reporter during Carter’s four years as president. Charles Overby, chairman of the Overby Center, recently interviewed Wilkie.
Terry Mattingly of the Overby Center panel of experts reports that historic storms from Hurricane Helene have left North Carolina people without homes and still in desperate need of help.
Charles Mitchell of the University of Mississippi and a member of the Overby Center panel of experts argues that the benefits of diversity initiatives can be significant.
