The exclusion that Delta lawmakers feel from the state and the Mississippi Development Authority ... “The only way we really can rid this region of poverty is through equitable economic ...

"We continue to neglect poverty in these areas, whether it's Central California, or Appalachia, or the (Mississippi) Delta." Barber said poverty is falsely seen as a marginal issue that affects ...

A new report explores the disproportionately high death rate among Black women in the Delta from cervical cancer.

Mississippi state and the US federal governments have neglected to protect black women from cervical cancer deaths in the rural Mississippi Delta region, Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative for ...

But with its booming cotton economy, the Mississippi Delta still attracted a steady ... the croppers once had slipped away. Entrenched in poverty, sharecroppers began heading north for industrial ...