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 ...

one in four cowboys were African American. In his series ‘Delta Hill Riders’, photographer Rory Doyle takes us inside the often overlooked black cowboy culture within the Mississippi Delta ...

The Mississippi state and US federal governments are failing to take steps to prevent cervical cancer deaths for Black women ...

But with its booming cotton economy, the Mississippi Delta still attracted ... Grinding poverty was not the only reason African Americans left the Delta. In the 1920s, the threat of racial ...

Languages: English. The Mississippi River's Bird's Foot Delta, a vital ecological and economic region, faces rapid deterioration because of rising sea levels, sediment shortages and invasive species.

Thirteen years before James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi, an African American janitor at the school in ...