A project in the Yazoo Backwater Area in western Mississippi is supposed to relieve flooding in the Mississippi Delt, but it ...

Since the Mississippi Delta was the last area of the South to be settled, after the Civil War, the state became among the most reactionary and repressive states for African Americans. Blacks lived ...

Record flooding, human-made channels and environmental disasters have exacerbated the already harsh effects of climate change in Louisiana's Mississippi Delta, impacting the region's coastal ...

Their project was to create a digital archive that describes this living history for the federally supported Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area (MDNHA), which is managed by Delta State ...

Having said that, Harris said most Mississippi Delta farms are not receiving applications ... hand harvesters who would end up in the Vardaman area picking sweet potatoes. Harris said most of ...