Conversation with Mississippi State Senator Robert L. Jackson

In our most recent conversation, Center for Rural Strategies board member Erickson Blackney speaks with Mississippi State Senator Robert Jackson about Covid-19, Rep. John Lewis, and the Mississippi state flag.

In conversation: Mary Annette Pember at Rural Assembly Everywhere

May 8, 2026 No Comments

Journalist and award-winning author Mary Annette Pember will be a featured speaker at Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026 on July 23.

Learn more about Community Benefit Agreements at upcoming webinar

May 7, 2026 No Comments

Registration is now open for our upcoming webinar: How Community Benefit Agreements Can Support Rural Communities, June 3, 12 p.m.

Drawing Resilience: Beth Howard

April 15, 2026 No Comments

An interview with Beth Howard, organizer and author of Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Anti-Racist Solidarity From a Coal-Miner’s Daughter

Announcing Yonder Radio: Rural Conversations with National Reach

March 19, 2026 No Comments

Introducing Yonder Radio, a free, one-hour radio show and podcast from the Center for Rural Strategies

Women’s History Month: Back to Middle School

March 12, 2026 No Comments

Rural Assembly Director Madeline Matson returns to middle school for Women’s History Month.

Drawing Resilience: Casey Orr

March 5, 2026 No Comments

Photographer Casey Orr has been documenting the ways people find each other, and themselves, through how they present themselves to the world her entire career. Her current project focuses on rural young people in northern England and eastern Washington State.