Three new, multimedia art installations have been designed and completed at the Margaret Walker Alexander Library in West Jackson, the first of what is hoped to be many artworks across the city's ...

In 2022, Graham published the first complete biography of Walker. In 1973, novelist and professor Margaret Walker Alexander created the Phillis Wheatley Festival.

Margaret Walker Alexander, 83, who translated her experiences as ablack woman in the Deep South into poignant stories, poems and the best-selling novel “Jubilee,” died yesterday in Chicago.

The impact of Margaret Walker Alexander's life works and achievements continues today as a monument to the African American experience of the Great Depression.

A strong part of Mississippi's literary heritage rests on the legacies of Eudora Welty and Margaret Walker Alexander. The two women share a simple yet striking commonality: the gift of words.

Mayor Tony Yarber will host the Jackson Reads Kick-Off Reception on Tuesday, March 3 at the Margaret Walker Center from 5:30-7 p.m. While adults and high school students are the target readers, a ...

A new Mississippi Writers Trail marker honors novelist and poet Margaret Walker.It was unveiled Monday at Jackson State University, where she was an English professor from 1949 to 1979 and was also ...

A mural to the late Jackson author Margaret Walker Alexander was dedicated today at Hardy Middle School. Alexander was an author and a literature professor at Jackson State University from 1949 to ...