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
Our friend Susan James of Suzassippi’s Lottabusha County Chronicles blog will be taking a turn as a guest contributor on MissPres this week sharing her
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…
The museum building is erected in one of the most historic African American communities in the country, which was founded by former slaves of Joe Davis, the brother of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States.
