In 1967, Robert F. Kennedy was two years into his first term as a U.S. senator from New York. He wanted to carve out his own political identity and focus on issues he deeply cared about, one of which ...

The Mississippi Delta, celebrated for its rich cultural heritage and historical significance, remains a paradox in modern America. Despite its contributions to music, literature, and Civil Rights ...

Floodwaters from the bloated Mississippi River and its tributaries spilled across farm fields, cut off churches, washed over roads and forced people from their homes Wednesday in the Mississippi Delta ...

JONESTOWN, Miss. — Otibehia Allen is a single mother who lives in a rented mobile home in the same isolated, poor community where she grew up among the cotton and soybean fields of the Mississippi ...