Food prescriptions, better nutrition can prevent obesity, heart disease Healthier foods can improve education results, Save the Children says Tufts-Tougaloo study working toward sustainable ...

Peasoup’s is still there, Delta State is winning baseball games and Delta dirt is still being sifted for treasure by hundreds of farmers. The Delta is doing just fine, thank you. At the end of April, ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Delta has no shortage of museums, historic attractions and clubs devoted to the blues. But visitors will find the region has many other stories to tell, 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 ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Four days before Christmas, Chiquikta Fountain watched as a growing line of cars stretched down a mile of road in the Mississippi Delta. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

GREENVILLE, Miss. — I recently moved to the heart and soul of the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues. Signs of this rich music heritage are all around me in this part of the state — the ...

“When It’s Darkness on the Delta,” by W. Ralph Eubanks, Beacon Press, 264 pages. The Mississippi Delta has long haunted Ralph Eubanks, a professor and writer in residence at the University of ...