Eddie Charles Brown Jr., a great-souled human being committed to fighting the oppression of all people from Mississippi to South Africa, died at...

Mayors, media stars, activists and other influencers came out Saturday to celebrate and reflect.. . The 2011 honorees of The Root 100 were...

You, Robert Johnson's ghost, and some live blues artists. Just what the doctor ordered. Last time we were down in the Mississippi Delta we were...

Aint nothing like a good old stereotype, and our recent visit to the Mississippi Delta pretty much ticked them all off. Awesome accents? Check...

![CDATA[ All this week, Julia Buckley will be taking us down the Blues trail in the Mississippi Delta and giving us the lowdown on the hotel scene...

The unassuming Red's by day If you're following the Blues trail around the Mississippi Delta, you'll almost certainly have Clarksdale down on your...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Heavy rainfall in the eastern and southern Midwest as well as the Mississippi Delta was adding to flooding woes, forecasters said on Tuesday.Longer-range maps indicate drier weather for the east with rainfall to move into the west and ...

US officials have ordered oil giant BP to pay for five more sand barriers in the Mississippi Delta to keep oil from the gushing Deepwater Horizon well from reaching Louisiana's fragile wetlands.Coast Guard official Thad Allen said Wednesday the project ...

US officials were poised Saturday to begin building massive sand barriers in the Mississippi Delta in a last-ditch bid to keep oil from BP's gushing Deepwater Horizon well from reaching Louisiana's fragile wetlands.Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen on Thursday ...

The huge oil spill inching closer to shore in the Gulf of Mexico is no Chernobyl disaster but will have a huge impact on the key fishing industry, a marine biologist said here.A ruptured well from the sunken Deepwater Horizon offshore ...