Tuesday (Oct. 10), I left at noon for Mound Bayou and Cleveland, Mississippi.

The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, is a historic all-Black town founded in 1887 by formerly enslaved Black people who created a thriving haven for

A trip to the birthplace of the blues is also a visit to a region soaked in the history of bigotry and the struggle for

Just one hundred and seventy-five years ago, on April 27, 1848, France finally decided to definitively abolish slavery in its colonies.

Annie Y. Griffin, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Chi Mu Omega Chapter of Mound Bayou…

The Rev. Darryl Johnson rejoiced when he received a text message that a deal to sell the remaining 100 acres of the historic Robert Hungerford

Ahead of its nationwide premiere, a film about Mamie Till Mobley’s fight for justice after the lynching death of her son Emmett Till will be

Former and current residents told me all this when I visited Mound Bayou, a town of about 1,700 in the Mississippi Delta, for the celebration

Today, Mound Bayou is celebrating its 124th anniversary. Whenever we are in the Delta and visit McCarty Pottery in Merigold…

Most of the storefronts have been boarded up, the high school has been shut down and the hospital is long gone.

Constructed in 1910 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie’s library development program, the Carnegie Library of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was the first free…

Mound Bayou, in the Mississippi Delta: a town founded in 1887 by former slaves, with a vision that was revolutionary for its time.

Mound Bayou was an all-black town in the Yazoo Delta in Northwest Mississippi.