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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

By Barbara Phillips Special to the EAGLE Dr. L.C. Dorsey was a Mississippi civil rights legend whose brown skin reminded me ...

He was then driven to the nearby Tallahatchie River, where he was shot in the head and a cotton gin fan was ... explore the racist history of the Mississippi Delta. He traces the barn’s land ...