Blues music was born in the Mississippi River delta, a pivotal event in American music history. You can visit the place ...

JONESTOWN, Miss. — As Pastor Bennie Brown sat in the bright red pews of St. James Missionary Baptist, just a few feet away from the podium where he preaches every Sunday, the 71-year-old farmer ...

Set in a storied landscape of the Mississippi Delta, Greenwood, MS, welcomes you with the sounds of the blues, the flavors of the South, and a powerful legacy of history and heart. From Civil Rights ...

The Mississippi Delta tamales, also called hot tamales, are on everyone’s minds now thanks to “Sinners.” The horror movie shows audiences a brief look at a culinary history that many do not know. It ...

A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the state of Mississippi, is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing nearly 4,415,000 acres, ...