Life & Times
Centenary’s Dream Week: Future, Faith, and Freedom
January 30, 2026
Centenary held Dream Week January 19th through 23rd with a variety of events planned for students and faculty on campus to celebrate Martin Luther King Day and the legacy and ideas Dr. King left behind. Two of these events included a showing of a James Baldwin documentary film called “I Am Not Your Negro” held by the Centenary Film Society at the Robinson Film Center and a keynote speech by speaker Dr. McKinley Melton, a professor at Rhodes College and a Baldwin scholar.
The 2016 film “I Am Not Your Negro” by director Raoul Peck explores the history and treatment of Black Americans through author James Baldwin’s letters, speeches, interviews, and manuscript of his unfinished novel Remember This House about Baldwin’s memories of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. In the opening and closing clips of the film, Baldwin addresses both the future of the Black American and the future of the country.
Meadows Museum Celebrates Fifty-Year Anniversary with New Exhibits
January 30, 2026
Friday, January 16th, Centenary’s Meadows Museum had a preview reception for the opening of its fiftieth anniversary exhibits. There were three new exhibits displayed, all of which center around the Meadows’ mission statement that says they are “an educational unit of the College charged with the collection, conservation, preservation, and interpretation of visual works of art of museum quality from the College Collection inclusive of the Indochina collection of Jean Depujols.” Each exhibit works to highlight a specific part of the statement, as each gallery has the theme on the wall outside of it with the part they wanted to focus on colored in purple.
