On Thursday, October 20, 2022, in conjunction with Museum After Hours, from 6 PM until 7:30 PM, Pike School of Art, in partnership with the Mississippi Museum of Art, will host a listening session of Charles Edward William’s work, FORWARD and a panel discussion about the works place in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. The panel will take place at the Mississippi Museum of Art located at 380 South Lamar Street, Jackson, MS 39201 and will feature, along with the artist, Monique Davis, Managing Director for the Center for Art and Public Exchange (CAPE) at the Mississippi Museum of Art m; Brenda Travis, an African American veteran of the Civil Rights Movement from McComb, Mississippi whose imprisonment for protesting a segregated bus station and participation in a peaceful high school walk out in 1961 helped catalyze public sentiment against segregation and Flonzie Brown Wright, best-selling author of Looking Back to Move Ahead, which chronicles her journey growing up in a small Mississippi town through her work in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, three powerful women of color and consummate experts in their fields.