Established in 1925, the Delta Burial Corp. is commemorating its 100th year in service to the Clarksdale, Mississippi community. Delta Burial Corp., one of the oldest Black-owned funeral homes in the ...
In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta’s Yazoo Backwater. It destroyed nearly 700 homes, wiped out an entire planting season for some farms and ...
CHICAGO (WGN) – The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the state of Mississippi, is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing nearly 4,415,000 acres, ...