Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, with a population of 1,728. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single ...

Booker T. Washington once called Mound Bayou a model of “thrift and self-government.” He called it that for good reason. Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green – formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis, ...

Presented by Art Melanated, "The Clockwork Academy," a new series depicting Black girls in academia, debuted at Paris Art ...

Rural hospital closures leave Delta without many health care options Committee hopes to reopen hospital built by Black business leaders Earlier effort revived hospital to meet urgent care needs Mound ...

MOUND BAYOU, Mississippi — On an early summer morning, Hermon Johnson Jr. walked the halls of the former band hall of the John F. Kennedy High School surrounded by archival photographs and rotating ...

When Jim Crow laws barred Black patients from accessing the same healthcare facilities as white patients, Black hospitals became a lifeline with a legacy that endures. MOUND BAYOU, Miss. — In the ...

MOUND BAYOU, Miss. (AP) — The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till’s mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men who ...

Bolivar County lies down on the rich delta lands of Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Arkansas River. In 1887, when the track of what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, ...

This story was originally published by Capital B. Sowing Resilience: Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity.

The Smithsonian Regional Collaboratives team encountered a network of passionate people telling local stories and prioritizing community needs in a series of visits this summer Sherrell Williams From ...