Wright Thompson tells a piercing biography about a barn in the Mississippi Delta, the history of the surrounding landscape ...

The initial 1,000 acres became 3,000 acres by 2001, and it now spans 11,500 acres in the Mississippi Delta. The family farms cotton, corn, soybeans and rice. In addition to Willard, Laura Lee and ...

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.

The ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee says at a recent roundtable, Mississippi Delta farmers asked him to ...

this small town in the Mississippi Delta grew into a bustling community of Black-owned businesses and successful farms by ...

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 ...

It follows the curdling of the Mississippi Delta as the global cotton markets rise and then ... When he returned home to farm, he lived with his family in a small tenant house east of town. The crop ...

Mr. Thompson, who comes from the Mississippi Delta farm town of Clarksdale ... and disruptive inventions such as the railroad ...

Farms like Katrutsa’s make up just a sliver of roughly 10.7 million acres of Tennessee farmland largely dominated by hay, soybeans, corn and cotton ... in the mid-Mississippi delta as ripe ...

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 ...