This desolate spot, he says, is ground zero for the civil rights movement. "This is where they dumped the body, here," Thomas says, as he points into Black Bayou, an appropriate name for a tributary ...

The Amite River Basin Commission recently outlined 13 major projects in its first master plan. Of the costs estimated, the plan could reach more than $3.8 billion. Bayou Manchac improvements: Cost ...

CALCASIEU PARISH, La. (KPLC) - The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury has closed portions of the Calcasieu River and English Bayou to all recreational boat traffic due to high water. The closure applies to ...

"This is where they dumped the body, here," Thomas says, as he points into Black Bayou, an appropriate name for a tributary of the Tallahatchie River that lacks any banks and where mighty oak ...

Photo credit: Wogan Group New Albany sits along the Tallahatchie River and serves as the starting point of the Tanglefoot Trail, a 43.6-mile rails-to-trails path perfect for biking and hiking. This ...

Johnson, Mound Bayou’s vice mayor from 1961 to 1992, took home the desk, typewriter, and chair he and Evers used. In 1963, a white supremacist killed Evers in Jackson, Mississippi.

In April 1955, a crowd of 7,000 showed up in Mound Bayou to hear him speak. “Pray not for your mom and pop,” he roared in his deep baritone. “They’ve gone to heaven.

The shoot is part of a Mississippi Delta Film Academy field trip. For two weeks this summer, two dozen students traveled from Sumner to Drew and Mound Bayou, visiting historic locations and museums of ...

From the graveled bend on Drew Ruleville Road, the barn is barely visible. A knot of trees obscures its weathered cypress panels; a driver could easily miss the structure from across the bayou.

There's genuine excitement in the Mississippi Delta about the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, but also worries that President Joe Biden ...

The two sites in Mississippi include Graball Landing, where Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse, which was previously ...

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed a declaration making three historic sites — two in Mississippi and one in Chicago — into a national monument for Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. The two sites ...