Thompson named 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year
As part of the honor, Amanda Thompson will present the talk, "Stories that Save Us: Teaching Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust," on Friday, Feb. 21, at 9:30 a.m. in McCain Theater on the MCC campus.
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As part of the honor, Amanda Thompson will present the talk, "Stories that Save Us: Teaching Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust," on Friday, Feb. 21, at 9:30 a.m. in McCain Theater on the MCC campus.
James Carter is a motivational speaker, published author, and mentor who is also the founder and executive director of the Carter Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving youth in Meridian, Hattiesburg, and West Alabama.
The voices of Crestwood Elementary School students filled the McCain Theater as they sang songs setting the tone for MCC's Black History Month program, "Education, Liberation, and the Future We Create."
Kassi Rushing, a communications and people strategist, led the discussion on Behaviors of Inclusive Leadership and Growing an Engaged Team with members of MCC's Eagles Leadership Convocation (E.L.C.).
Ja'Nyra Henderson is the first recipient of a Bower Foundation scholarship designed to support social work students at Mississippi State University-Meridian.