The Mississippi Delta offers a soulful blend of music, history, food, and small-town charm. From blues trails and Civil Rights landmarks to tamale festivals and riverfront parks, each stop tells a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JONESTOWN, Miss. — As Pastor Bennie Brown sat in the bright red pews of St. James Missionary Baptist, just a few feet away from ...

Legendary moonshiner Perry Martin died in 1968 and so did the decades of illegal distribution of the his spirits he engineered from the tiny hamlet of Rosedale along the Mississippi River in the Delta ...

Natural gas business Spire plans to sell its Mississippi local distribution company to Delta Utilities for $75 million in ...

Ralph Eubanks' book "When It’s Darkness on the Delta" is a personal meditation on the region's complex issues. The book questions whether blues tourism is a new economic foundation or a form of ...

Mississippi Delta Community College football player Emanuell Cooks died on Sept. 18 following a game at Hinds Community College, the school announced on Sept. 19. The school said Cooks died "due to ...