The Advocate1d
Author discovers the hidden histories of a Mississippi Delta barn with 'raw honesty'
Wright Thompson tells a piercing biography about a barn in the Mississippi Delta, the history of the surrounding landscape ...
Brownfield Ag News2d
Delta farmers ask Boozman for new farm bill and disaster relief
The ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee says at a recent roundtable, Mississippi Delta farmers asked him to ...
Esquire27d
There’s More to Know About the Tragic Murder of Emmett Till—A Lot More
In 1919 some cotton in the Mississippi Delta was selling for a dollar a pound ... Almost forty thousand farms went into foreclosure. Across the state 115 banks had failed in just two years.
seattlepi.com28d
Book Review: Wright Thompson exposes deep racist roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn’
He was then driven to the nearby Tallahatchie River, where he was shot in the head and a cotton gin fan was ... explore the racist history of the Mississippi Delta. He traces the barn’s land ...
‘The Barn’ Review: The Scene of a Lynching
Mr. Thompson, who comes from the Mississippi Delta farm town of Clarksdale ... and disruptive inventions such as the railroad ...
Forbes27d
How The Higher Purpose Hub Will Serve The Mississippi Delta
Located in a historic building, the Hub will house a wide range of services focused on transforming the Mississippi Delta's financial, physical, and cultural landscape. In recent years ...
Daily Journal21d
ICC football rallies to beat Mississippi Delta
FULTON, Miss. – The ICC football team scored 21 unanswered points in the final six minutes of the game to rally for a 35-17 win over Mississippi Delta on Thursday to remain unbeaten in ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel27d
Rollin' on the river: How the Mississippi flows through American music, and inspires to this day
It's important. And people love it." Perhaps no style of music is as intertwined with the Mississippi River as the delta blues, rooted in the musical traditions of enslaved Black Americans who ...
SFGate1mon
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils 2024 Football Schedule
Thus far in 2024, the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils are 0-6. For their full schedule and results, see below. Watch college football live without cable. Stream ACC, SEC, ESPN and more with ...
Post and Courier26d
Review: Wright Thompson exposes deep racist roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn’
He was then driven to the nearby Tallahatchie River, where he was shot in the head and a cotton gin fan was ... explore the racist history of the Mississippi Delta. He traces the barn’s land ...
U.S. News & World Report28d
Book Review: Wright Thompson Exposes Deep Racist Roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn’
Book Review: Wright Thompson Exposes Deep Racist Roots of the Mississippi Delta in ‘The Barn ... where he was shot in the head and a cotton gin fan was tied around his neck with barbed ...