The initial 1,000 acres became 3,000 acres by 2001, and it now spans 11,500 acres in the Mississippi Delta. The family farms cotton, corn, soybeans and rice. In addition to Willard, Laura Lee and ...

Entergy has broken ground at the company’s newly announced 754-megawatt (MW) Delta Blues Advanced Power Station in Greenville ...

Built from cypress boards of indeterminate age, weathered gray over the decades, the former cotton shed ... to the 36-square-mile plot of Mississippi Delta designated on maps as Township 22 ...

In 1919 some cotton in the Mississippi Delta was selling for a dollar a pound, more than the current real price in 2024. A loaf of bread went for 10 cents in 1919 and today Wonder Bread goes for $ ...

Entergy Mississippi on Nov. 7 celebrated the start of construction of a new $1.2 billion, 754-MW natural gas-fired power ...

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including ...

Members of the last generation to live under unabashed Jim Crow are among voters in a historic presidential election that has ...

Herds of sheep, wrangled by Turkish sheepdogs, and rows of wide solar panels take up the same land that used to be covered in ...

Delta Blues Advanced Power Station represents a $1.2 billion investment. Photo credit: Sargent & Lundy JACKSON, Miss., November 8, 2024 /CSRwire/ - Entergy Mississippi celebrated a brighter energy ...

Note: A comparable profile of Roger Wicker appeared in the Aug. 31. Loyalty, duty, respect and personal courage have been elemental to the core character of Ty Pinkins throughout his life. His ...

I'd had an entire Mississippi history class in ... Buck Randall heads to Oxford from the Delta, through the flatlands, white cotton all around, waiting to be picked. He listens to music, not ...