Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

In 1968, Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC), a 640-acre collective that offered provisions to more than 10,000 ...

Although U.S. 61 begins in New Orleans and runs through Baton Rouge, the portion known as the Blues Highway starts around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and moves north through the Delta to Memphis, ...

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 ...

One of the major problems that African Americans have is not having access to care or not being able to afford the care that they're given, that [is] actually needed. So, a lot of times, African ...