discussions of the Civil War uprising in Southeastern Mississippi popularly known as the “Free State of Jones”
By Vikki Bynum I had a great time on the set of The Free State of Jones movie last week! Watched a very intense Matt McConaughey, pictured above, bring Newt Knight to […]
Mississippi State University, Office of Public Affairs News Bureau, (662) 325-3442. Contact: Meg Henderson. March 09, 2015. Victoria Bynum, Photo by: submitted STARKVILLE, Miss.–During a March 18 public program at Mississippi State, historian […]
By Vikki Bynum Filming of the movie Free State of Jones is about to begin, and announcements regarding the cast are regularly appearing in movie trade papers. Renegade South learned less than […]
Reblogged from Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora (Indiewire): Gugu Mbatha-Raw Will Confound the Rules of Segregated Mississippi with Matthew McConaughey in ‘Free State of Jones’ By Tambay […]
By Vikki Bynum From October 1863 until the end of the Civil War, an inner civil war raged in Mississippi’s “Free State” of Jones County. According to Ed Mauldin, the log cabin of […]
By Vikki Bynum The movie “Free State of Jones” is heading toward production! Two exciting announcements appeared this past week. The first is a casting call for background actors that will take […]
UPDATE, MAY 23, 2016: Buy the latest edition of The Free State of Jones HERE. Likewise, the new audio version may be purchased HERE. If you prefer to read an abbreviated […]
A copy of this beautiful painting of Newt Knight’s farm was provided to me through the efforts of Charlene Morehead and Mitchell Coats. Maxwell “Mac” Coats, Mitchell’s father, painted it from […]
By Vikki Bynum Deadline.com and Variety Magazine have announced that the long anticipated movie “Free State of Jones” is in the works—just eight years after Universal Studios bought the rights to my book from the […]
While perusing the Internet, I recently discovered the following 2012 essay by Daniele Watts, whose name I recognized as the actor who played the slave Coco in the movie Django Unchained. I […]
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