drawbridges and low-lying islands as a stand-in for the Mississippi Delta in such movies as "What's Love Got to Do With It." In the somnolent riverside towns of Locke, Isleton and Walnut Grove ...

Moore is one of many who have faced tough choices as increased flooding and decreased economic opportunity have led to population loss in the Arkansas Delta, the region bordering the Mississippi ...

Mississippi comes out of it pretty well ... "Economic growth in the delta slowed down in the Sixties," Green told me, "so architecturally that period look is still there." What’s causing ...

two days after violent tornadoes smashed through the Mississippi Delta region — one of the country's poorest areas — gutting rural towns and leaving more than two dozen people dead.

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived a quiet, peaceful life in the Mississippi Delta before a powerful tornado swept up a neighbor’s semi-truck and dropped it onto their ...

As in, small towns. There are a lot of them in the ... Pearl River is a stretch that takes in many parishes in the Mississippi Delta, an agriculturally rich region but one where poverty is common ...

Floodwaters swamped more than half a million acres of forest and farmland in the lower Mississippi Delta more than six ... are forcing cities and farming communities across the country to grapple ...

Two Mid-South towns more than an hour away from Memphis ... and the traffic and tourists are changing life as people know it in the Mississippi Delta. With the Interstate 40 Hernando DeSoto ...

Three Arkansas towns along the White River also saw mandatory ... All the way south into the Mississippi Delta, people faced the question of whether to stay or go as high water kept on rolling ...

The court in April had ordered state officials to develop yet another legislative map to ensure Black ... predominantly Black towns in the Mississippi Delta,” which would make it hard for ...

CORONA, Tenn. — Life in the tiny community of Corona, a chunk of Tennessee on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River, has never been easy for Joanne Moore. Like many, she’s been forced to ...

Credit: Lucas Dufalla, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter and Report for America guy Lucas Dufalla has a great story on a tiny Tennessee Delta town that found itself on ...