When the Oscars are handed out Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards, the film Till won’t be recognized. As it turns out, some of the most noticeable Oscar-nominated omissions this year are films made by ...

Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, with a population of 1,728. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single ...

Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it "The Jewel of the Delta." Booker T. Washington praised it as a model of "thrift and self-government." Mound Bayou, in the Mississippi Delta: a town founded in 1887 by ...

Booker T. Washington once called Mound Bayou a model of “thrift and self-government.” He called it that for good reason. Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green – formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis, ...

Rural hospital closures leave Delta without many health care options Committee hopes to reopen hospital built by Black business leaders Earlier effort revived hospital to meet urgent care needs Mound ...

MOUND BAYOU, Miss. (AP) — The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till’s mother as she traveled to Mississippi to testify in the murder trial of two white men who ...

MOUND BAYOU, Miss. — In the center of this historically Black city, once deemed “the jewel of the Delta” by President Theodore Roosevelt, dreams to revitalize an abandoned hospital building have all ...

Bolivar County lies down on the rich delta lands of Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Arkansas River. In 1887, when the track of what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad was laid, ...