University of Mississippi
Career Closet – UM resource provides students with free professional attire for career fairs, interviews and more
Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement – CICCE supports student success by cultivating a welcoming campus community where all students can thrive. Through programs that promote access, retention, and engagement, the center enhances the academic experience and connects students to vital campus resources. It fosters student connections and engagement with the university community while offering opportunities for success in a global society.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture – The Center for the Study of Southern Culture seeks to investigate, document, interpret, and teach about the American South through academic inquiry and publications, documentary studies of film, photography, oral history, and public outreach programs.
Grove Grocery – Grove Grocery aims to combat campus hunger and poverty by providing nutritious foods and hygiene products to students and employees.
Hotty Toddy Tech Pass: Laptop Loan Program – Eligible UM students can apply through the CICCE to borrow a laptop on a semesterly basis. It’s free, simple, and designed to help you succeed.
Kanopy – Get free access to thousands of movies through your university library. Log in with your university credentials.
Living Blues Magazine – Founded as America’s first blues publication in Chicago in 1970, Living Blues magazine has set the standard for blues journalism around the world.
Lyceum Locker – Lyceum Locker is the University’s school supply closet and provides a large variety of free school supplies.
Office of Student Disability Services – We lead the university in its commitment to recognize disability as a valued aspect of diversity, to embrace access as a matter of social justice, and to design more welcoming and inclusive environments.
Oxford-University Transit (OUT) – Oxford-University Transit is the public transportation system for the city of Oxford and the University of Mississippi. OUT connects Oxford through a comprehensive bus transit network.
Southern Foodways Alliance – Southern Foodways Alliance is an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, dedicated to the documentation, study and exploration of the foodways of the American South.
Southern Latinx Artist Archive
UMatter – UMatter serves the University of Mississippi community by coordinating support efforts both on and off campus to assist students facing challenges in order to promote personal and academic success.
Oxford Community
Oxford Community Market – Oxford Community Market is a nonprofit organization focused on food access. We operate a weekly Mississippi Certified Farmers Market along with programs to make healthy, local food accessible to all people in our community, especially those facing barriers of cost and transportation.
Yoknapatawpha Arts Council – The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council is located inside the Powerhouse Community Arts Center. YAC offers a diverse range of programs, professional development services, and support to serve both artists and residents in Lafayette County.
Documentary + Storytelling
The Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project – Established by award-winning author and MacArthur Genius Jacqueline Woodson, the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project captures and celebrates untold and underrepresented stories of activists, storytellers, and community builders who have witnessed and shaped great change in American public life. Spanning over 230 oral history interviews and 1,000 personal mementos, the Elders Project was produced by Incite Institute at Columbia University—home to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research—in partnership with Woodson’s nonprofit, Baldwin for the Arts, between 2022 and 2024.
Campaign for Southern Equality – The Campaign for Southern Equality is working to build a South where LGBTQ+ people are equal in every part of life. A South where your zip code doesn’t determine your rights. Where all of us are free to be who we truly are and love who we truly love. At this unprecedented time of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks – and as public support for LGBTQ equality across the South continues to grow – we invite you to join us in Meeting the Moment in the LGBTQ South.
Documentary+ – All of your favorite documentaries – streaming in one place – from Academy Award winning classics and box office hits to festival darlings and cult favorites. Available on all streaming platforms and all for free.
Documentary Producer’s Alliance – Their mission is to amplify the voice of documentary producers worldwide by educating the industry about the essential role that producers play from development through financing, production, and distribution; and by setting standards for inclusive, sustainable, and equitable documentary filmmaking practices based on research, collective experience, and input from industry stakeholders.
Invisible Histories Project – Invisible Histories locates, collects, researches, and creates community-based, educational programming around LGBTQ history in the Deep South. Invisible Histories believes archiving is resistance to oppression and history leads to liberation. In our work, we center joy and community while never erasing the painful and complicated experiences of our folks. We WILL save our stories, one box at a time.
Oxford American Magazine – The Oxford American Literary Project, Inc., is a nonprofit arts and media organization. They produce live events, a podcast, multimedia stories, and publish the quarterly Oxford American magazine in alliance with the University of Central Arkansas (UCA). Their mission is to explore the complexity and vitality of the American South through exceptional writing, music, and visual art. Find the latest call for submissions here at https://oxfordamerican.org/submissions.
Southern Cultures – Southern Cultures is a peer-reviewed quarterly of the history and cultures of the U.S. South, published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South, with readers in the region and beyond.
Southern Documentary Fund – SDF champions Southern documentary makers and stories. Inspired by our belief in the power of media to educate and change lives, we provide documentarians with diverse resources, including grants, fiscal sponsorship, community dialogue, training, and mentorship–all to promote Southern stories and lower barriers for documentary makers and underrepresented voices.
Sundance Collab – Sundance Collab is a digital hub to learn from industry experts, build your craft, and connect with artists at every level across film and television – powered by over 40 years of Sundance Institute support for independent voices.
Video Consortium – Video Consortium is the premier nonfiction video network, supporting individuals and institutions using video to inform and inspire audiences everywhere.
Centers + Museums
Emmett Till Interpretive Center – The Emmett Till Interpretive Center promotes restorative justice through public education, storytelling, and historic preservation, focusing on the 1955 Emmett Till tragedy to foster community healing and understanding to create a more equitable future.
The Legacy Museum + Sites – Travel through 400 years of American history – from enslavement, to racial terrorism, to codified segregation, to mass incarceration. The critically acclaimed Legacy Museum features first-person historical accounts, interactive content, cutting-edge technology, and a world class art gallery.
Margaret Walker Center – The Margaret Walker Center is an archive and museum dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture. Founded as the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People by Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center seeks to honor her academic, artistic, and activist legacy through its archival collections, exhibits, and public programs.
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum – The Two Mississippi Museums—the interconnected Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum—opened December 9, 2017, in honor of the state’s bicentennial. The museums take visitors through the sweep of Mississippi history and the state’s role as ground zero in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
Mississippi Humanities Council – The Mississippi Humanities Council is a private nonprofit corporation funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide public programs in traditional liberal arts disciplines to serve nonprofit groups in Mississippi. The humanities are the study of history, literature, religion, languages, philosophy, and culture.
Southern Poverty Law Center – The SPLC was founded in 1971 to ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all.
Strawberry Plains Audubon Center – Strawberry Plains Audubon Center is one of Mississippi’s finest natural and historic treasures. They restore and conserve the 3,000 acres of hardwood forests, wetlands, and native grasslands. In the community, they work with landowners to develop habitat management plans that will help future generations enjoy the economic and social benefits that clean water and a natural environment provide. They are committed to providing experiential and place-based education to students of all ages.
Walter Anderson Museum of Art – Their mission is to empower lifelong curiosity and connection to the natural world through the art of Walter Anderson and kindred artists.