Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1997 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. The Mississippi Delta is the area formed by the ...
On the surface, downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, looks largely the same as it did decades ago: a collection of historic brick buildings lining wide avenues faded to postcard sepia. But local Bubba ...
Tamales — a pre-Columbian staple common in Mexico, Central, and South America — arrived in America's Mississippi Delta via Mexican laborers. Also influenced by the Mexican-American War and Indigenous ...