Topic: Mississippi Delta

Ed Brown Remembered For Commitment To His Race

Eddie Charles Brown Jr., a great-souled human being committed to fighting the oppression of all people from Mississippi to South Africa, died at...
Mayors, media stars, activists and other influencers came out Saturday to celebrate and reflect.. . The 2011 honorees of The Root 100 were...
You, Robert Johnson's ghost, and some live blues artists. Just what the doctor ordered. Last time we were down in the Mississippi Delta we were...
Aint nothing like a good old stereotype, and our recent visit to the Mississippi Delta pretty much ticked them all off. Awesome accents? Check...
![CDATA[ All this week, Julia Buckley will be taking us down the Blues trail in the Mississippi Delta and giving us the lowdown on the hotel scene...
The unassuming Red's by day If you're following the Blues trail around the Mississippi Delta, you'll almost certainly have Clarksdale down on your...

Heavy rains in eastern, southern Midwest, warm in Northeast

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Heavy rainfall in the eastern and southern Midwest as well as the Mississippi Delta was adding to flooding woes, forecasters said on Tuesday.Longer-range maps indicate drier weather for the east with rainfall to move into the west and ...
In early April, organizations, like the Mississippi Delta Wildlife Refuge and the US Coast Guard , braced to deal with the effects of a 160-Square-Mile oil spill that reached the national wildlife refuge in the Delta. Consider the wildlife on the shores of ...

Lance Hammer

Lance Hammer is a film director who premiered his feature directorial debut Ballast at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival . The film explores a family falling apart in the Mississippi Delta after a suicide.Hammer wrote the script for Ballast but opted to ...

Cheap ways to organize a closet

Cheap ways to organize a closet An empty closet is what your closet looks like when it has no things kept in it. Once you take all your things out of your closet, in the words of Mississippi Delta blues-man R.L ...