By: Courtney Ingle, Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi Delta is the Birthplace of the Blues. While travelers come to the Delta to pay homage to this great cultural landscape, the local Delta folks live and breathe the blues day in and day out. The blues – a musical...
High levels of parasites in pondwater can result in catastrophic losses for Mississippi’s catfish producers, especially in the spring, but Cyndi Ware, a Mississippi State senior research associate at the university’s Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville,...
By Aliyah Veal, Mississippi Free Press A 10th-grade Jay Rushing stood in front of the Fannie Lou Hamer statue in Ruleville, Miss., alongside other students participating in the Emmett Till Interpretive Center’s inaugural class of its summer youth program, organized...
By Nathan Duff The Delta State University Department of Athletics is thrilled to announce A Night of Champions, a special event featuring Mississippi football legend Archie Manning alongside Delta State Alumni and Athletics Hall of Famer, Langston Rogers. The...
By: Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune Tucked into the extreme northeast corner of the state, Tishomingo State Park is a nature wonderland with camping, swimming, boating, hiking, and disc golf. It is the largest of Mississippi’s 25 state parks, spanning 1530 acres....
The mission of the Virginia-based non-profit God’s Pit Crew is to deliver hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people in times of disaster, and the ministry has done just that in Mississippi. The crew recently redeployed to the small town of Rolling Fork to...
