Ron Brown

  • Marching to Washington

    Friday, January 09, 2009
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    Tickets are hard to come by, if not impossible to get for the historic inauguration of Barack Obama later this month.
    But in today’s arts report, MPB’s Ron Brown tells us about one group who won’t need tickets because they received an invitation.

  • A Driven Artist

    Monday, January 05, 2009
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    Those who know him say William Heard is a driven man. He lives his life now almost entirely on wheels, driving his customized van between his house in Mantachie and his hometown of Tupelo 20 miles away. In high school, he was a hard-driving football player, an Eagle Scout and class president. Now he’s an artist with a business degree and a wheelchair.

    The car accident that changed his life happened on March 14, 2000.

  • Mississippi Artist Helps Decorate White House Christmas Tree and Inspire Troubled Youth

    Friday, December 19, 2008
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    It is said, that in good art, there are no straight lines. MPB's Ron Brown has the story of Robin Whitfield. A water color artist and teacher, whose path to the Mississippi Delta, has led to Washington D.C.

  • Delta Artist Creates White House Ornament

    Friday, December 19, 2008
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    It’s said that in good art, there are no straight lines. MPB’s Ron Brown has the story of a water color artist and teacher whose path to the Mississippi delta wound up taking her to Washington D.C.

  • Museum on Wheels

    Friday, December 05, 2008
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    A trip to the local library is becoming a more colorful experience in Mississippi. And it’s drawing a lot of visual interest. As MPB’s Arts reporter Ron Brown tells us, if you can’t make it an art museum, no problem; the museum is coming to a library near you.

  • Museum on Wheels

    Friday, December 05, 2008
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    If you can't make it to an art museum, no problem, the museum could be coming to a library near you. In today's Arts Report, MPB's Ron Brown tells us local libraries are becoming a more colorful experience, thanks to a Museum on Wheels.

  • Special Therapy Thru Music

    Friday, November 28, 2008
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    Music in the classroom is not all fun and games. For kids with developmental disabilities, music is therapy. MPB's Ron Brown has the story.

  • Music Therapy Works Wonders

    Friday, November 28, 2008
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    Music in the classroom is not always fun and games. For kids with developmental disabilities, music is therapy. MPB’s Ron Brown has the story.

  • Hattiesburg Art Exhibit Opens Eyes About Islamic Women

    Friday, November 21, 2008
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    Mention Islamic women and many Americans have an image in mind. However, it's not always accurate. MPB's Ron Brown tells us how a new art exhibit in Hattiesburg is trying to change that.

  • Mississippi Fiddlin'

    Friday, November 07, 2008
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    Mississippi is known worldwide as the home of the blues, and the birthplace of both the king of rock and roll and the father of country music. But as MPB's Ron Brown tells us, it's time Mississippi fiddle players got their due.

  • Mississippi Mass Choir

    Friday, October 31, 2008
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    One of Mississippi's most successful recording groups is celebrating their 20th anniversary. As MPB's Ron Brown tells us, with 150 singers in the group, it was not a quiet occasion.

  • M For Mississippi

    Friday, October 10, 2008
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    A new documentary film about the delta blues is making it's debut in Clarksdale this weekend. As MPB's Arts reporter Ron Brown tells us, it's not a typical blues documentary, because it's not about the history of the blues, it's about the present.

  • Blind Sculptor Remembers Blues Legends

    Friday, October 03, 2008
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    In today's arts report, MPB's Ron Brown introduces us to a Como, Mississippi sculptor who is carving out her own unique artistic vision.

  • Cat Head Records

    Friday, September 26, 2008
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    According to a national publication If you want to visit one of the coolest record stores in the country, you can travel to Los Angeles, Chicago or Atlanta. Or as MPB's arts reporter Ron Brown tells us, you can take a shorter drive, right to the heart of the Mississippi Delta.

  • Richard Wright, 100 Years

    Friday, September 19, 2008
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    Born in 1908 to a sharecropper on a plantation near Natchez, Richard Wright rose to literary heights writing about America's mistreatment of African Americans. In today's Arts Report, communities all across Mississippi are now taking part in an international celebration in this the centennial year of Wright's birth. MPB's Ron Brown reports.

  • BB King Museum

    Friday, September 12, 2008
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    It was six years in the making and cost 15 million dollars to build. Sitting in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, a place where multi-million dollar investments are rare, it's the new BB King Museum in Indianola. On Thursday, the museum gave a sneak peek to about 100 journalists from around the world, including MPB arts reporter, Ron Brown.

  • Blind Boys Blues Marker

    Friday, August 29, 2008
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    Another stop gets added to Mississippi's Historic Blues Trail this morning. MPB Arts Reporter, Ron Brown tells us – the new marker pays tribute to some of the world's most inspiring and influential music of the 40's and 50's. They originated at the Piney Woods School for the Blind.

  • Building on the Arts

    Friday, August 15, 2008
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    A new documentary airing this weekend on MPB television takes us behind the scenes of an arts organization. MPB's Ron Brown has the story

  • Mississippi's American Masters

    Friday, August 08, 2008
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    Mississippi is getting ready to begin an 18-month long celebration of four noted Mississippi artists. As MPB's Ron Brown tells us, a new traveling exhibition is unveiled today in Laurel to honor our American Masters.

  • Bass Great Jerry Jemmott

    Thursday, July 31, 2008
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    Jerry Jemmott was born in New York, but now resides in Mississippi. He spent decades making some of the most memorable records in history. In today's Arts Report, MPB's Ron Brown tells us, now, he wants to be remembered for something more.