announced the award of $186,756 in Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative (LMDI) grants. This year’s awards will support 11 ...
The Mississippi Valley State University Green Devils celebrated 75 years of their existence on Tuesday at the State Capitol.
A host of parasitic diseases commonly thought to have been eradicated in the U.S. are infecting a large number of mostly poor, predominantly Black populations in the Mississippi Delta region.
A new report explores the disproportionately high death rate among Black women in the Delta from cervical cancer.
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (WTVA) — A wreck in the Mississippi Delta claimed the life of a 31-year-old man. The Mississippi Highway ...
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 ...
It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies of the federal government, but an agreement appears to be in place to ...
Gospel music has contributed tremendously to the Mississippi Delta region's unique musical heritage. This new sacred music of the 20th century reflects the concerns of urban life and to a large ...
In the Mississippi Delta, a rural region with some of the worst health indicators and highest rates of poverty in Mississippi and in the entire United States, racial disparities are even starker ...