You’d never know it living here, but Jackson, Mississippi, be filled with two hundred thousand peoples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Whereas in New Orleans he paid little attention to his brother, in Mississippi everyone who boarded the bus at the various little towns had a smile and a greeting for everyone else. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mississippi and the world is two very different places,” the Deacon say and we all nod cause ain’t it the truth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A two-week federal trial in Meridian, Mississippi, resulted in seven guilty verdicts and sentences ranging from three to ten years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Southwest and Mississippi Valley to the modern American breadbaskets of California and Oregon, where Native American societies remained hunter-gatherers merely because they lacked appropriate domesticates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had to talk to her before I left Mississippi; I needed to talk to someone, someone I cared about and could trust. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m ashamed, sometimes, Senator. Ashamed of what goes on in Mississippi.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One thing was clear: Typhon had made it to the Mississippi River. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was in Mississippi, and hadn’t heard from Todd in a week. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine blew me a kiss, then she drifted out of the room, singing to herself: “For I come from Mississippi with a Moon Pie on my knee!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In between, it chugs through the lush rolling hills of Mississippi, through mile after mile of cotton fields and pine forests, past towns and small cities dotting the landscape. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I liked exploring the rows of plants—they offered some shade from the Mississippi sun, and if the wind blew even a little, the plants swayed and stirred up air that seemed almost cool. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dad doesn’t ask questions when Scoob leads him to a jewelry store in Mississippi so Scoob can “give something to a guy named Todd.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It would take nearly a half century after US independence was won to accomplish what Jefferson had hoped for: the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation to “beyond the Mississippi.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The deserts of northern Mexico similarly separated the urban centers of southern Mexico from the chiefdoms of the Mississippi Valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Evening, Mizz Simmons! And a merry Christmas to you too! The folk who brought me here came up the Mississippi a long time back.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and much of the U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You might as well induce a belief that you are in earnest by inserting Mississippi, Detroit, or Winnipiprocket Pond as Connogocheque.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Copies gone show up in the bookstores and the libraries tomorrow. Twenty-five hundred in Mississippi, other half all over the United States.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be a part of something as big as taming the Mississippi. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re told people have come from as far away as Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia to join forces to halt integration. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state of Mississippi eventually moved from hiring convict labor to organizing its own convict labor camp, known as Parchman Farm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the spring of 1920, thirty-five states had ratified the 19th Amendment, and eight states—Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Delaware—had voted against ratification. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly my starved body responded to food and overcame the lean years of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, counteracting the flesh-sapping anxiety of fear-filled days. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the glaciers melted, water gushed south, creating the Mississippi River and the Illinois and Missouri Rivers that funnel into it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the Mississippi History room, I search for anything remotely resembling race relations. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was just one year old when she was freed from slavery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On August 13, 1776, in a letter to Edmund Pendleton, a delegate to the First Continental Congress, he wrote that he hoped “the Cherokees will now be driven beyond the Mississippi.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Had I met Bess upon a Mississippi plantation, I would have expected her to act as she had. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1917, Charles S. Johnson, a black sociologist and later the first black president of Fisk University, captured some of their stories in interviews with Mississippi migrants about their move to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The French occupied land in the Mississippi Valley called Louisiana and much of the land north of the Saint Lawrence River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From its original point of entrance the Japanese beetle has spread rather widely throughout many of the states east of the Mississippi, where conditions of temperature and rainfall are suitable for it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The storm is spinning over the Gulf, heading towards Mississippi and Louisiana. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

This is Mississippi's peculiar way of making Negroes "happy and contented" with the democratic processes and of showing the world how well they care for the Negro in respecting his rights as an American citizen. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shallow-draft Mississippi river boats with their stubby sails were being loaded with luxuries from across the oceans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He made a deal with Spain that gave France control of the middle of North America, from New Orleans north along the Mississippi. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“If you’re not used to things in Mississippi, you’ll have to watch yourself pretty close till you catch on,” he said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three days. I’ve got to catch some fella on the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board. I wish I’d known about it sooner.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Those years, our worst battles always started over my wanting to visit Grampa and Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He grew up on the Mississippi, where the fever liked to visit when the weather turned warm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All her Mississippi friends were leaving, and country people—not her sort were moving in. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The federal troops in Mississippi could be better used guarding the safety of the citizens of Washington, D.C., where it is even unsafe to walk or go to a ballgame-and that is the nation's capitol. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had also had to cancel his planned trip to Jackson, Mississippi, which he was going to try and make later. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Little of both, I guess. Ruthanne’s lunch and this old Mississippi sun pretty much wiped me out.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I raised my hand and told Mr. Petrelli that I had never been to the Mississippi River and had no plans to go soon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Spain held the rest of Florida, along with most of the land west of the Mississippi River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the wagon worked its way up the hill, I figured I was a man now and maybe about the luckiest one alive to be able to build a levee on the great Mississippi River. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he claimed the man identified himself as ‘Mr. Bryant’ I ask you, how many Mr. Bryants are there in the state of Mississippi? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

FOR days and days, Jackson, Mississippi’s like a pot a boiling water. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“We could try going up the Mississippi,” Reynolds suggested. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Based around the Mississippi and its associated rivers, these societies scattered tens of thousands of mounds from southern Canada and the Great Plains to the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1811 and 1812 the largest earthquakes in U.S. history abruptly lifted or lowered much of the central Mississippi Valley by as much as twelve feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s wishing Jackson, Mississippi, was interesting enough to write a whole book on, and even though it is Jackson ... well, he doesn’t know that. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

About fifty settlements existed in this strip of the Mississippi when De Soto showed up, according to Anne Ramenofsky, an archaeologist at the University of New Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi River tumbles on like it has for hundreds of years, and like it will for another hundred more. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

After that visit, Kennedy returned to the White House determined to change conditions in the Mississippi Delta and other impoverished parts of the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Senator Whitworth leans over to Daddy and says, “I came from nothing, you know. Jefferson County, Mississippi. My daddy dried peanuts for eleven cents a pound.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m Tiara with an A,” said Miss Mississippi. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He takes a huuuuuge breath of Mississippi air into his lungs and blows it out. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of our second day on the train, June 13, eight days before the summer solstice, we passed through spine golden hills and over the Mississippi River into St. Louis. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that an accused man was deprived of a fair trial, kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob from a Mississippi jail apparently had no effect on the thinking of the Grand Jury. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of his words and the weather and everything else from that Mississippi summer squeezed all the air out of me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She said, “Mississippi,” with a forkful of food in her mouth without spitting out a bit. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tensions between slaveholders and abolitionists kept growing, and by mid-January 1861, five slaveholding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia—had seceded from the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I suppose it resembles Killdeer, Mississippi, where Father grew up, and played the position of quarterback in high school. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I loved being with my Mississippi cousins. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I had brought romantic images of Mark Twain’s Mississippi River with me when I went to the Hudson, but it wasn’t to be. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stared out atSnapfinger Cemetery, and the blacktopped Rural Route 2 that stretched out to bigger roads across all of Mississippi and beyond. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson, Mississippi, is frozen like an ice pop. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was fourteen years old when the University of Mississippi confrontation took place. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That is the one and only Mississippi expression he has ever picked up from Mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He knew he was in Mississippi. What he think that was? Tom Sawyer Land?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We were still very actively litigating on behalf of condemned children in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana—Southern states where we had litigated previously. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, I wouldn’t feel I’m suffocating in the dark heat, hear Mama Ya-Ya’s breathing ragged and slow, or smell the Mississippi living in our house. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Sold him to a trader—fellow taking slaves overland to Mississippi.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I still have that arrogant plan—into St. Paul on Highway 10, then gently across the Mississippi. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met in college up North, and somehow Rita convinced him to move to Mississippi. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After De Soto left, no Europeans visited this part of the Mississippi Valley for more than a century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the future loomed tangibly for me, as tangible as a future can loom for a black boy in Mississippi. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grampa had warned me about Dad’s crazy ideas and that someday he might want to leave Mississippi, but I never believed him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the call went out to neighboring Mississippi for white men to come to the aid of their fellow whites in Phillips County. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Spain saw this arrangement as a buffer to its North American holdings, which at the time included the lower Mississippi and the city of New Orleans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Officials from the state of Mississippi, where the boy had been murdered, did not even bother to clean up the body of Emmett Till. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She finished chewing and swallowing and said, “My mother’s people are from Mississippi. My father, St. Louis.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Smith told the women that Harriet Powell was a slave from Mississippi who had recently escaped while in Syracuse with the slaveholder. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In states like Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas, there were hundreds of people whose cases were affected by the recent decisions, but no lawyers were available to assist these condemned juvenile lifers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A 2011 poll of Mississippi Republicans found that 46 percent support a legal ban on interracial marriage, 40 percent oppose such a ban, and 14 percent are undecided. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I haven’t paid any attention to it except for the bus strikes and that Mississippi business. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The S-curve in the Mississippi here would give me three crossings of the river. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Crown ceded to the United States territory from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Great Lakes and north of Spanish-occupied Florida. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi is making me a new home. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered that he’d probably followed every minute of the trial, not because I might have been in it, but because it was about somebody like Emmett Till getting killed in Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But de Soto died on the banks of the Mississippi River without ever seeing his wife again. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jackson, Mississippi, is the closest place to heaven there is,” he say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was the vague sense of the infinite as I looked down upon the yellow, dreaming waters of the Mississippi River from the verdant bluffs of Natchez. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though nominally segregation is not permitted on interstate buses, no Negro would be fool enough to try to sit anywhere except at the rear on one going into Mississippi. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the Mississippi, dead center of the USA. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And since Mississippi happens to be the worst, we figured we’d better use it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

De Soto was still able to see some of the densely populated Indian towns lining the lower Mississippi. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I first started butting heads with Dad in 1948—I was only nine—because he dragged us away from Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was surprised by how little I remembered of Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He hardly noticed the Mississippi River flowing by the town, or the rich farmland nearby. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He’d watched his pa make it in Mississippi, but we got stuck on what to put it in. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Took him until second grade to realize he was spelling Mississippi. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

As he crossed the state line into Mississippi, a white man hidden in a clump of bushes shot Meredith from behind with a shotgun, seriously wounding him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But God, I have to get out of Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That no one could have understood that they would be the target of monthly hurricanes pinballing up the Mississippi Alley, gunning for anything that didn’t have the sense to batten down, float, or go underground. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For my final round of commencements as First Lady, I spoke at Jackson State University in Mississippi, another historically black school, using the opportunity to talk about striving for excellence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After the end of his expedition, it was a long time before Europeans again reached the Mississippi Valley, but Eurasian microbes were now established in North America and kept spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her plane crashed this morning and everyone from New York to Mississippi to Seattle is in mourning, singing her songs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Last but not least, let’s welcome Tiara Swan, Miss Mississippi. Fun fact about Tiara: She thought you could get pregnant from swimming with a guy.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Through the valley flowed a Mississippi of humiliated Americans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose stories of epic adventures would blow through school like a summer storm: an old guy living in a broken-down house in Hot Coffee, Mississippi, taught Margo how to play the guitar. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is the biggest dam in America east of the Mississippi and something of an attraction for people who like concrete in volume. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They could go to one of their cousins’ homes, in Mississippi or Baton Rouge, and it would be a vacation, a two-day sleepover. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We held hands while she said, “I would personally like to offer up thanks to every living body in Aurora County, Mississippi, for having the good sense not to die in the past four days.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I said that ultra-liberal New York had more integration problems than Mississippi. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, and south from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico was one of the most fertile agricultural belts in the world. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The radio said that colored boy’s mama up in Chicago is blaming everyone in Mississippi for what’s happened, said she said, ‘The entire state of Mississippi is going to pay for this.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

From Jackson, Mississippi, came a report yesterday from Edward Robertson, editor of the Jackson Daily Star, regarding Bigger Thomas’ boyhood there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Words of the state song hummed through my memory: Way down South in Mississippi, Cotton blossoms white in the sun. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we do not, we have sinned before God and before our fellow citizens of the great state of Mississippi.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of the house and went to the water front and sat on a knoll of earth in the cold wind and sun, looking at the boats on the Mississippi River. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was first light and we was already along the Mississippi before I woke. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where have you been? Did living in Arizona make you forget your Mississippi friends?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Commonwealth said Sheriff Smith had lots of threatening letters and phone calls from people in Chicago and Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He liked the verve of her bouffant wigs, the drawl of her native Mississippi, as well as the severe eyeglass frames that belied the warmth in her eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If the mother had expressed the determination to see that the guilty parties “must pay for this crime,” she would have expressed the sincere desires of the people of Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

One such observer reported that in driving about southern Mississippi that fall she saw “no land birds at all for long distances.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In those early months, why, half the time I would wake up startled and think I was right back in Pearl, Mississippi. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m... the one writing about the colored women? In Mississippi?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He brought in a college-educated manager—Mr. Devotee Dantzler, a Mississippi gentleman—to make certain prices were kept fair and no miner was gouged. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody could deny that Grant had waited too long and had been surprised at Pittsburg Landing, and certainly he had been driven back at Oxford, Mississippi. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That’s why I left Mississippi. Because I didn’t want to be a sharecropper picking cotton.’ Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Minny near bout the best cook in Hinds County, maybe even all a Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In 1967, at the invitation of Dr. Marian Wright Edelman, Bobby Kennedy had visited the poor shantytowns in the Mississippi Delta and saw personally the plight of the poor in that area. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar Ditch is as low as you can go in Mississippi, maybe the whole United States. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now the breathless weatherman is saying the hurricane will hit Mississippi and Louisiana. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m from down south, from Mississippi, where they say the livin’ is easy, but not so much for a man with black skin. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

For situations where mounds are numerous and mechanized methods are desirable, a cultivator which first levels and then applies chemical directly to the mounds has been developed by Mississippi’s Agricultural Experiment Station. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After crossing the Mississippi, we swung north toward Kentucky, then east. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old man who was guarding the clothing of that one Mississippi regiment was asleep against the rail fence, his mouth open. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the last page, I see the pica type that reads Property of Mississippi Law Library. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Corn diffused from Mexico to the Andes and, more slowly, from Mexico to the Mississippi Valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had the Falkland Islands down pat, and when there was a long Reading-Comprehension passage about the Mississippi River, I thanked the good Mr. Petrelli, who had made me get to know it personally. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Levittown Shop-a-Rama, site of the Kennedy campaign rally and touted as “the largest shopping mall east of the Mississippi,” was anchored by a Sears and another department store called Pomeroy’s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Go to the Mississippi section and find Meridian,” she says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Only Tool had easy access to work, acting as muscle on valuable goods as they transshipped to the Mississippi and the rail yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“All this time, I thought the letters were MS. For Mississippi, where my grandmother was born.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dill was a curiosity because he was from Meridian, Mississippi, and was wise in the ways of the world. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Actually, the Mississippi River is a treacherous and sinister body of water whose eddies and currents yearly claim many lives. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not before a significant number of the soldiers had joined with the Mississippi vigilantes and the local posse in hunting down blacks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to wait—one Mississippi, two Mississippi—then dove aside as the fiery sphere demolished the locker room door. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All I care about is what the folks in Jackson, Mississippi, got to say about it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Floating on a raft down the Mississippi to one mysterious place after another with nothing else around except trees and water, it beckoned to him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he’d follow a civil rights case, especially when it was in Mississippi, and he probably couldn’t wait to get my eyewitness account of the whole trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“In that new Chevy. But she’s expecting to feed you lunch before you go. It’s her last chance to fatten you up before you leave Mississippi” He grinned. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Kids simply went “down south” every summer—shipped out sometimes for the whole season to run around with their second cousins back in Georgia, or Louisiana, or Mississippi. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That’s when I spot a booklet, laid sideways across the top of the Mississippi River Valley Flood Index. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their relics are the great mound sites of the Mississippi Valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The richest men in America lived in the Mississippi River Valley, and they made their riches off our stolen bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“And the whole time I was gone, the only place I could think of was little old Greenwood, Mississippi. Life sure has a funny way of teaching us lessons, don’t it?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I crossed the line from Mississippi into Alabama, I felt as though I were leaving a cemetery. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he answered his critics with such statements as that he would send “armed guerrillas” into Mississippi. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I note for only a second the Texas accent of the telephone operator or the Mississippi accent of the man who lives in the apartment below me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded up the Indians in camps, the women and children and whatever they could carry on their backs, and marched them west of the Mississippi. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Black newcomer had been recruited on the desiccated farm lands of Georgia and Mississippi by war-plant labor scouts. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of the next appearance of Europeans on the lower Mississippi, that of French settlers in the late 1600s, almost all of those big Indian towns had vanished. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If the wind blows south, then, the hurricane might miss the entire Gulf region. “If the hurricane loosens, becomes diffuse, then, there might be only a tropical storm for Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My favorite is the picture of a steamboat churning up the Mississippi. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi is brown, filled with leaves, branches, and pieces of folks’ lives. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

This is two and a half days after they watched the Casino Joe’s fireworks show on the bank of the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The White River runs right along the edge of town and all the way across the state and over to the Mississippi. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In summer, heavy rains lash the Mississippi Valley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After the Nat Turner insurrection, fear hung over the plantations from Virginia on down through Maryland, down to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She demanded that someone give us the correct change to call Mississippi, which two boys did in such a hurry you would think Mother was their commanding officer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Niceville, Mississippi, is the name of our town because it doesn’t exist, but we decided a real state name would draw interest. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know there were ten in Mississippi that went to school at one time,” Shreve said. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Andes, West Africa’s kingdoms, and the mouth of the Mississippi River lay only about 1,200, 1,500, and 700 miles, respectively, from societies with writing in Mexico, North Africa, and Mexico, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time his favorite band came back to that venue, the Cranes would probably be long gone, living in Ohio or Mississippi or wherever their parents’ whims took them next. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jeff Brown was lynched in Cedarbluff, Mississippi, for accidentally bumping into a white girl while he was running to catch a train. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I’ve even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he’ll endorse the idea. I pass.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the treaty that ended the war, France turned over all territory in North America east of the Mississippi River to the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1947, a Mississippi hotel denied service to the Haitian secretary of agriculture, who had come to the state to attend an international conference. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As Evers pulled into the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, white supremacist and Klan member Byron De La Beckwith was hiding, waiting for Evers to step out of his car. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I discussed Dante's prior diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder following the attempted murder of his mother in my oral argument before the Mississippi Supreme Court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She even bullied Mr. Petrelli into buckling down and making us present our “Mississippi River and You” projects out loud to the class. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They alone could walk the roads of Mississippi, the lanes of Georgia, the fields of Alabama unmolested. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were well-traveled roads that tracked major rivers, like the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Columbia, Colorado, and the Rio Grande. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It did seem that since we were talking about the Mississippi River and You—or in this case, Me—one possible answer to his question would be yes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He’d go on with his sermon for too long, five minutes or more, preaching about the evils of hate and reminding me how hate had hurt folks back in our old home, the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi River starts in Minnesota, did I know that? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We forget that North America also supported populous Indian societies in the most logical place, the Mississippi Valley, which contains some of our best farmland today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Death is losing patience. He’ll come and ferry me down the Mississippi. I’ll put on my feathered hat. Wave like I’m in a Mardi Gras parade.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When a mule dies, I don’t know where he goes, but Samuel had a nice spot that looked out on the Mississippi and on the levee that he helped to build. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Master Lester’s plantation, Mississippi, go there and tell my wife, Sylvie, and daughter, Charity, that I died in the fight for freedom.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He parked his car in a side street and walked to the embankment at the edge of a river, unsure whether he was gazing at the Ohio or the Mississippi. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It is true, for example, that racial incidents, followed by calls for tolerance and understanding, are a more-or-less permanent feature of the American landscape, durable as the Rocky Mountains, familiar as the Mississippi River. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how to save money, thanks to my long starvation in Mississippi. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born in Mississippi, Minnie Williams and her younger sister, Anna, were orphaned at an early age and sent to live with different uncles. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi River wormed through the middle of the city. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just the picture and a little caption saying, “The home of Hilly and William Holbrook, of Jackson, Mississippi, was a sight to see this morning.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It would take a lot more to get even as far as the Mississippi River. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hence the Andes, West Africa, and the Mississippi Valley were effectively rather isolated from societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So we made a tentative agreement that the day after his projected return from Mississippi, he would fly upstate to visit for a weekend with me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up, he saw the sun beginning to descend over the Mississippi at the foot of Canal Street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of Malcolm X, Saigon, the Beatles, tennis at Wimbledon, and a motel in Jackson, Mississippi, that closed down rather than accept Negro guests, but nothing about me and Rosaleen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd taught the Buchanans' Llanview just as my colleagues had taught Joyce's Dublin or Faulkner's Mississippi, but that was over now. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They had shifted the possible track of the storm from the Florida panhandle to the Mississippi—Louisiana coast. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By the time his favorite band came back to that venue, the Cranes would probably be long gone, living in Ohio or Mississippi or wherever their parents’ whims took them next. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

With a flurry of warnings and arm movements, Kathy herded the girls and their gear into the minivan and headed across the Mississippi to the West Bank. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He may not have even had a bank. And if he had, I dont reckon he’d have to come all the way to Mississippi to get a man for it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For a second, our eyes met, and something passed between us, an understanding of some sort, from one Mississippi boy to another. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She live up in Greenwood, Mississippi, and she driving down to New Orleans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Along with James Chaney, an African-American from Mississippi, they were heading south to Mississippi to investigate the burning of a church there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rob McDuff, an old friend of mine from Jackson, Mississippi, agreed to join our team for the civil litigation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That happened to me when I was back in Greenwood, Mississippi, last summer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He relied on the paper to keep up on the news of his old friends in the South and especially in Greenwood, Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Libby Holton, one of the girls in Anne’s class, was from Mississippi and had only recently moved with her family to Montclair. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord have mercy, that I did—Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed happier than ever, and I wasn’t sure if it was because of his job at the college, our new lives in Arizona, or just being away from Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Southeast and the Mississippi River system, their destruction was accomplished largely by germs alone, introduced by early European explorers and advancing ahead of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Something happened today, or yesterday if it’s after midnight,” Mary said, trying to find the words to explain, and remembering her vision of the Dust flow as a great river like the Mississippi. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery,” declared Mississippi as it left the Union, “the greatest material interest of the world.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Incidents like the Emmett Till murder were not limited to Mississippi; acts of racial injustice and violence were happening all over the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The triumphs along the Mississippi had made good news, and hopes throughout the North were at a high peak when chilling word came up from Tennessee. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you stay here, those men are gonna come back and kill you. I’m serious. They’re gonna kill you, like those colored people in Mississippi got killed. Even T. Ray said so.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Located near the confluence of the Missouri, Illinois, and Mississippi Rivers, the Indian city of Cahokia was a busy port. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It says this is one Negro in Mississippi who’s not going to get to vote this year.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in a while, Master would stand up and raise his glass and his voice—“To that brave black American led into the University of Mississippi!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Grampa figured this would be the last day of the trial, and I guess so did everyone else in Mississippi Deputies brought in extra cane-bottomed chairs and squeezed them in wherever there was floor space. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And then the music come on and he holler, “Good day, Mississippi!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was almost four months ago that the door was sealed shut between Hilly and me, a door made of ice so thick it would take a hundred Mississippi summers to melt it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It serves the best Chinese food east of the Mississippi. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He’ll have to do some healing ’fore he can go to Mississippi or anywhere else.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He later participated in military campaigns by the Union army to defeat the Confederates in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Instead, I went to see my cousins in Mississippi. I should’ve gone to Nebraska.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I told him I’d heard about so-called Mississippi Appendectomies, unnecessary hysterectomies performed on poor black women to stop them from reproducing, and to give young doctors a chance to practice the procedure. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each magazine had a bookmark at an article about the Mississippi River. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most places on the Mississippi, I heard that if there was any work, a person could find it along the river. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From there, they could eventually reach the West Coast on a route that followed the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers, crossed the Rocky Mountains, and met the Columbia River road. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He lashed the horse and headed the buggy straight for the Mississippi River. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Field Secretary Medgar Evers in Mississippi, I wanted to say the blunt truths that needed to be said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure I knew everything about Constantine—she had one sister and grew up on a share- cropping farm in Corinth, Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then one day Lee sent Johnston some reinforcements from one of his corps and Grandfather found out that the Twenty-third Mississippi was one of the regiments. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove more deeply into Mississippi, I noted that the Negro comforted and sought comfort from his own. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On its way to the Mississippi, the combined river then wanders, quite conveniently, within two hundred yards of the central plaza. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and thought about waves, rushing water, the Mississippi River. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The evening stars shine brighter, And glad is every dewy morn, For way down South in Mississippi, Folks are happy they have been born. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At present he is a resident of the Mississippi State Prison in Parchman, Mississippi, where he is serving a thirty-year sentence for armed robbery. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Miss Skeeter asking don’t I want to change things, like changing Jackson, Mississippi, gone be like changing a lightbulb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now a quarantine barrier in Mississippi seeks to prevent the re-entrance of the screw-worm from the Southwest, where it is firmly entrenched. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Down Cairo way? Yeah. It’s in the delta of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Like Cairo in Egypt, in the Nile delta.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was off on another three-day jaunt to Mississippi, or temporarily joining the circus. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I began to hope that I had underestimated the people of Mississippi. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she looked again at the clouds and the moon in the Dust flow, they looked as frail and doomed as a dam of little twigs and tiny pebbles trying to hold back the Mississippi. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In 1962 he had sent U.S. marshals to Oxford, Mississippi, to enforce James Meredith’s enrollment into the University of Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of August, William Faulkner left California to return to Mississippi. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Shee-oot. That Billups tried to wipe his shoes on it and I told him, I said, Chico, if Mississippi don’t have cotton, hell, Mississippi don’t have nothing.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the twelfth century CE, the Mississippi Valley region was home to several large city-states that were built of earthen stepped pyramids much like those in Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As far as the state of Mississippi is concerned, this is not about race, it’s just another murder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cool Papa never called it a harmonica, although sometimes he called it a Mississippi saxophone. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When I was a bareheaded, barefoot kid in Jackson, Mississippi, there was a boy who terrorized me and all of the boys I played with. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

From there it flows into the Des Moines River, and down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It began to take shape in its same curious, light, gravity-defying attitude—the once-folded sheet out of the wistaria Mississippi summer, the cigar smell, the random blowing of the fireflies. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Virginians seem different, quite, from the Texans, or the soldiers from Mississippi. Is that true, do you think, sir?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing in Mississippi or Texas had prepared Anna for what she now experienced. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In Meridian, Mississippi, where Mrs. Hunter lived, the chief of police confiscated the Defender from men selling it on the street. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A tiny flame appeared, right there at the bottom of the Mississippi. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I argued two cases at the Mississippi Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the convictions and sentences of young children were illegal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Today a criminal freed from prison has scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a freed slave or a black person living “free” in Mississippi at the height of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Holding her made me forget about everything else that had gone wrong that Mississippi summer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I became physically sick to my stomach when I heard about three more Civil Rights workers killed in Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the woman who spoke to me in the Mississippi River.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For four years his force wandered through what are now Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, looking for gold and wrecking most everything it touched. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They must be in one hell of a shape if they’ve got to come all the way to Mississippi to steal ten dollars a month. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When school was out in June, he said we couldn’t afford the train fare to Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I used to think the Mississippi was beautiful. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Not a single black child attended an integrated public grade school in South Carolina, Alabama, or Mississippi as of the 1962–1963 school year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Five years later, on September 30, 1962, I followed another act of school-related terrorism when black student James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No ... I haven’t heard anything . . .” He told me the Mississippi jury refused to indict in the Parker lynch case. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Alabama’s hand shot up at the same time as Miss Mississippi’s. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As the year turned, the cotton states began leaving the Union: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the churning brown water of the Mississippi below. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sicknesses like measles and smallpox would have burned through his six hundred men long before they reached the Mississippi. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We went through all of Mississippi with just some short whistle-stops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And God is loved in Mississippi, Home and church her people hold dear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mississippi has long had a reputation of failing to pun-ish white men accused of criminal acts against Negroes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can usually count on the girls from Mississippi to win. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the Mississippi, the same river that I had worked on down south of Memphis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young Negro boy had been found stomped to death in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All colored people will organize and there will be a revolution, and at the close colored people will take up all the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Potomac. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, here we go into Mississippi—the most lied- about state in the union—that’s what they claim,” a man behind me said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourth term of my senior year, I only applied to one job, but it was a good one, being six hundred miles away from Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This was the biggest thing ever to hit Greenwood, maybe ever to hit Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nathan as a boy played football on his high school team in Killdeer, Mississippi, with great success evidently, and expected his winning season to continue ever after. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I counted another fifteen Mississippis before he opened the doors. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

At seventy Mississippi he gave up and began to feel panicky again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the second time in two months, Jackson, Mississippi’s in the Life magazine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Eagles — probably northern nesters — winter along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Descendants of the Siberians settled the thick forests of the eastern United States, the swamps of the Mississippi Delta, the deserts of Mexico and steaming jungles of Central America. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them of my decision to move into Mississippi. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The patterned grains of wood in the scarred surface reminded her of currents in the Mississippi River. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He read this book call Invisible Man. When he done, he say he gone write down what it was like to be colored working for a white man in Mississippi.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Adam moved rapidly across interminable East Texas, through Louisiana and the butt ends of Mississippi and Alabama, and into the flank of Florida. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He envisioned an alliance of all the peoples west to the Mississippi, north into the Great Lakes region, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Eastern U.S. farming became greatly intensified, and densely populated chiefdoms developed along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, factory wages in the Tarheel State vied with Mississippi’s for last place in the nation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Along the Mississippi, a little south of Memphis. That’s in Tennessee.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked P. D. how the voting situation was in Mississippi and P. D. told the story of the Negro who went to register. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People come down here and say Mississippi is the worst place in the world,” Bill said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I saw you, when I was passing through from Mississippi, you were in pretty bad shape. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After an overnight train ride, I arrived in Money, Mississippi, August 21. August 28, I died.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

More than a century later the French explorer La Salle canoed down the Mississippi. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A French test, and then a comparison between the Mississippi and the Missouri! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The large woman was apologetic, as though it embarrassed her for a stranger to see Mississippi’s dirty linen. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters MS—for Mississippi, her grandmother’s home state—were engraved on the outside of the bracelet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know that’s not the way it works. It doesn’t matter what he believes. It’s what Mississippi believes. He’s running for the U.S. Senate this fall and I’m unfortunate enough to know that.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A black minister in Waterloo, Mississippi, explained his outrage at the fate that has befallen African Americans in the post-civil rights era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He said that upon his return from Mississippi, he would like to come and spend two or three days in the town where I was, and read the book’s manuscript again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1964 near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, three young civil rights workers—two white, one black—were killed by a mob of Klansmen for helping local blacks register as voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

God had done a wonderful job when he built the Mississippi and there could be no way to improve on what nature had done. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie was engrossed in the Almanac, his nightly reading, and my brother was far away on a raft on the Mississippi. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bach year these people, like thousands of others, tallied raptors along the four migratory flyways in North America—the Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific flyways. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He even start writing his own book, bout being a colored man living and working in Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Far as I know, this is the first time in the history of Mississippi that white men are gonna be made to account for what they done to a black man.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t find a movie until Room 32, occupied by a couple of guys from Mississippi named Joe and Marcus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was just high enough to look over them and see the Mississippi. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never been an irascible man and before war was actually declared and Mississippi seceded, his acts and speeches of protest had been not only calm but logical and quite sensible. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the distance and in my head counted, one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, and pictured myself running. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I took out my notebook, lay across the bed on my stomach and attempted to write—anything to escape the death dance out there in the Mississippi night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He starts by talking about his experience growing up Black in Mississippi and moves on to talk about systemic racism and how we don’t even realize how embedded it is in our world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“No one else scheduled down here until harvest season when the grain comes down the Mississippi.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It made me sick, and all I wanted to do was get out of there, out of Mississippi, and back home where things and people weren’t so crazy. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Passably. Where are you going? to New York? to Iberville? to your father in Mississippi? where?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evers had attracted national attention back in the early 1960s when he led a store boycott in Jackson, Mississippi, and when he helped black student James Meredith enter the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I smell fish, brine from the Gulf, algae from the Mississippi, and somebody frying catfish. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We didn't live in Mississippi, but hate was under the surface everywhere. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The constant wave of tropical storms and hurricanes that menaced coastal Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida in the summer of 2004 turned their relaxed Southern coastal life into an apocalyptic struggle for survival. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Alabama and Mississippi have yet to be done properly,” Mr. Hurst said. Antiques: New Antiques Websites Join Crowded Field 2014-02-13T20:33:28Z

The song selections weren’t just spirituals but also Mississippi blues, hip-hop and funk. Review: ‘Run Mary Run’ Features Rashida Bumbray at SummerStage 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Graceland says a red velvet shirt likely worn on stage by Presley at a 1956 show in Tupelo, Mississippi, sold for $37,500. Elvis Presley’s jewelry, clothing sold at Graceland auction 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

“Mississippi Grind” co-stars Ryan Reynolds, whose career has lately been skidding downward. Sundance 2015: Ryan Reynolds and Noah Baumbach Draw Mixed Verdicts 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

A demonstration for voting rights in Mississippi was a turning point, and the movie covers his work and relationships with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the N.A.A.C.P. leader Medgar Evers. ‘The One and Only Dick Gregory’ Review: A Peek at a Comic Legend 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

In turn, the nation’s oldest winter carnival west of the Mississippi River introduced us to the passionate, community-driven winter sports scene in the town of Steamboat Springs. Land of 100 Olympians: Why Steamboat Springs is a winter sports mecca 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

The following year found him in the Mississippi Delta taking part in Freedom Summer. Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Sales of the book are especially robust in the South, including Kentucky, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Florida, and in the Midwest, particularly Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Parties for ?Mockingbird? Birthday, but Don?t Expect Author 2010-05-24T21:41:00Z

The first, as we crossed the Mississippi river along the state line between Wisconsin and Minnesota, was shared with a woman and her young son. Taking the Empire Builder train across America 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

It was 1963 and the company played Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, mainly black audiences and occasionally surrounded by armed guards out of fear that white supremacists would firebomb their venue. James Cromwell: 'In jail, everyone recognises my face' 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

It was not even the worst injury of Tagovailoa’s own season—a month later, against Mississippi State, he would dislocate and fracture his hip. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Its center today, St. Francisville, is a collection of historic cottages, old churches and newer buildings perched on a ridge above the Mississippi, 30 minutes north of Baton Rouge. Following Audubon?s Footsteps in Louisiana 2010-04-15T21:58:00Z

We read side by side, though he was back in Mississippi and I was still in Manhattan. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

In Mississippi, the exhibit ran for five months and helped the museum regain attendance lost to the pandemic, said Betsy Bradley, the director. Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

“You think about the Mississippi River, it moves at two to three miles per hour, but it’s also one of the most windy rivers in the world,” Mr. Nichols said. Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z

But other Mississippi shoppers didn’t see the big deal about it, calling it “cute.” Don’t dress your baby like a jerk 2012-07-06T15:40:00Z

Back in the 1930s, a Harvard-trained African-American anthropologist, Allison Davis, and his equally refined wife, Elizabeth, risked their lives to study life under Jim Crow in a remote section of Mississippi. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

“He is a manipulator,” Angela said by phone from her home in Mississippi. Prison Romances, Standing the Test of (Hard) Time and Cameras 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Though Barnes loved the people and the hospitality in Mississippi, the roads and highways, he said, weren't so easy to embrace. New York man bicycling across US reveals his favorite state so far: ‘Feel at home’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

“East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography” at the National Gallery of Art here is the first comprehensive museum show to turn a light on this era of Eastern landscape photographs. How the East Was Won: A Photographic Portrait 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Their relationship sets off a chain of events on the aptly named Empty plantation in Mississippi, including malicious interference by a jealous older man who claims to preach the gospel. Review | ‘The Prophets’ reimagines the lives of enslaved people with the epic love story of two men 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

This revision opens with Laymon in full bloom as an artist and introspector in his essay “Mississippi: An Awakening, in Days.” Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

She had won caucuses in Louisiana and Mississippi, but only one primary election, in New Jersey – and that was only possible because neither Humphrey nor McGovern was on the ballot, for procedural reasons. Shirley Chisholm, the Democrats’ forgotten hero 2012-09-09T19:00:00Z

Whether it’s the minimalistic carnage of the Stripes, the lush instrumentation of The Raconteurs, or the mucky distortion of The Dead Weather, it all goes back to Mississippi Delta blues. Jack White's Blunderbuss: The Rock Raconteur Goes It Alone 2012-04-24T10:45:54Z

By state law, the Mississippi bar examination must include questions on all Ten Commandments. Style Invitational Week 1442: Same difference 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

There, he initiated a series of four performances, the first in September in collaboration with the musicians the Black Monks of Mississippi, which drew many residents from Washington. Using Discards to Build Art (and Rebuild a City) 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Warning aside, Sookie is still hunting for Bill, now with the added protection of handsome new werewolf Alcide, while Bill remains in the strangely polite captivity of the Vampire King of Mississippi. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-01-28T07:59:00Z

King is returning to the grounds of the old Mississippi Delta cotton gin where as a teenager in the 1940s he worked as a tractor driver. Bluesman B.B. King returns to Mississippi hometown 2012-08-22T00:01:04Z

The 20-mile stretch on the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge known as “The Cancer Corridor” pumps out one-quarter of the chemicals made in America. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z

In front of the club stands a historical marker for the Mississippi Blues Trail, a network of more than 200 sites important to the evolution of the music and its culture, created in 2006. Club Ebony, a Historic Blues Venue Tied to B.B. King, Rises Again 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

In Greenwood, Mississippi, were you in a hotel, motel, trailers? Carpetbagger Blog: When Minny Met Talley 2011-12-05T19:44:12Z

The bottled sauces made their debut in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi last year, marking the restaurant’s first retail endeavor. Chick-fil-A expands sales of bottled sauces at stores across US 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

One wall featured a map showing the slavery route from Louisville, down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River, to Natchez, one of the largest slave-trading cities in the United States. On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

After nearly four years, I had finally been released from Mississippi State Prison at Parchman. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Tropical storm warning flags were flying from Mississippi to and flash flood warnings extended along the Alabama coast into the Florida Panhandle. Tropical Storm Lee forms in the Gulf 2011-09-03T01:18:00Z

Brooks felt called to join the ministry during his college years at Jackson State University, a historically black college in Mississippi, where he met his wife, Janice. Who is the NAACP's new president, Cornell William Brooks?

She spoke of her childhood in Madagascar and move to Mississippi, while he told her about his family’s New Mexico roots. Spicy Sign of Love and Family History 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

We may be in a plush Mississippi mansion that, in Frances O'Connor's design, is surrounded by standing water and bedecked with hanging greenery. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – review 2012-10-10T21:30:01Z

It was as though the Mississippi had stopped flowing. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Her second film, “Mississippi Masala,” came out when I was in eighth grade. ‘Maybe I Do Have a Story to Tell’: Kal Penn on His Memoir 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

At the time, Beale Street was a hot spot for blues, rhythm and blues and jazz, and drew a colorful parade of musicians, gamblers and hustlers from the Mississippi Delta. Clothier who dressed Elvis Presley dies in Tenn. 2012-11-15T16:10:12Z

The black teen from Chicago was in Mississippi visiting family in 1955 when he was killed, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. PepsiCo ending ties with Lil Wayne 2013-05-03T21:37:08Z

Mr. Watson mistakenly refers to Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, who fought for civil rights and was in Mississippi that summer, as Joseph Lelyveld. Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z

And "Memphis in May," a monthlong event that includes a music festival and barbecue contest at a park along the Mississippi River, now attracts tens of thousands of people. Graceland marks 30th year as tourist attraction 2012-06-13T11:19:09Z

In June, Nascar banned Confederate flags from its race meetings and Mississippi became the final US state to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

It's too late – they're already heading across state lines into Mississippi, towards a rickety chapel. Great Balls of Fire! Jerry Lee Lewis biopic strikes wrong note on scandal 2012-08-23T11:49:00Z

I know the Mississippi River from New Orleans, but I haven’t spent time on its shoreline from Natchez to Vicksburg and on up to Memphis. Sit a Spell with Jimmy Buffett 2012-05-29T15:50:14.157Z

Walker Evans used this ploy in the 1930s, while photographing the poor in New Orleans and Mississippi; so did Helen Levitt, on the streets of Harlem. Watching you 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

With a Broadway budget and elaborate sets, it might be possible to approximate the mountainous terrain and even the river; some productions of the musical “Big River” depicted a pretty convincing Mississippi. Onstage ‘Deliverance’ Hews to the Novel, Not the Film 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Austin wrote that he was inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman to interview inmates Friday when the incident occurred. Mississippi inmate tries to hang self in cell, attorney says 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Even though Dylan has enjoyed a resurgence in the past 14 years, the highest-ranking song from the era came in at a modest No. 21 -- "Mississippi," a tune from 2001's "Love and Theft." "Like a Rolling Stone" Dylan's best song 2011-05-12T19:13:45Z

A pair of lawmakers in Mississippi have introduced a bill to make the Bible the official state book, the two said on Monday. Mississippi lawmakers want to make Bible state's official book 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Smith is picking up the roughly $100,000 tab for the pyrotechnics over the Mississippi River after learning New Orleans didn’t plan a 2021 show, city officials told news outlets. Actor Will Smith pays for July 4 fireworks in New Orleans 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

When you look at Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, even the Carolinas — the environment in certain pockets hasn’t changed. The Protest Playlist, From the Hip-Hop Duo Run the Jewels 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

In 1998, his hysterical assault on “that shallow and putrid trough we call the Mississippi River” opened with the line, “I proceed from rage.” Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

King sang and played his way out of the Mississippi cotton fields and onto international concert stages. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Then we’d go back and forth to Mississippi on holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving, and sometimes spend the whole summer with my grandparents. Sonny Landreth, never straying far from the blues 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Johnson moved to Chicago’s South Side as a teenager and started playing blues guitar. Syl Johnson, Chicago soul and blues artist, dies at 85 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

The book follows a single, miserable day in the life of Lou Bishoff, a worn-down, middle-aged cabdriver who narrates our story as he chauffeurs the residents of a fictional Mississippi town. A Novelist-Turned-Cabby Hates His Life. Thanks to Uber, It’s About to Get Worse. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

The problem is that in a state like Mississippi—the state from which Renae hails—changing the hearts and minds of an entire population may be an incredibly difficult task. Stop piling on La’Porsha Renae: LGBT Americans don’t need her approval, they need better legal protections 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

As in any good book of that type, the past hunts Sutpen and finds him: His son, Henry, goes off to the fledgling University of Mississippi, where he befriends another man, Charles Bon. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z

I mean, when I was there, Mississippi’s mascot was Colonel Reb. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

Is that money better spent on a ridiculously overblown military and senators' pet projects in Alabama and Mississippi than it is on parks? Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

In her letter to the National Film Preservation Foundation seeking funding, she described the “rare and historically significant primary source depictions of segregated Mississippi against the backdrop of violent opposition.” Right Out of Hollywood, a Witness to History 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Through threats of violence and economic retaliation, many Mississippi Chinese would be forced to abandon their black children, partners, families, friends and colleagues. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

The festival will also showcase "The Story of the Blues" tracing the music's journey from Africa to the Mississippi delta and featuring Mali's Vieux Farka Toure, known as the Jimi Hendrix of the Sahara. African beats come to London, with help from Brazil 2012-06-15T11:38:39Z

“I was first and foremost an activist in the civil rights movement in Mississippi.” Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, said many scholars are hoping the Faulkner papers remain in the public domain, especially those recently discovered and unpublished. Faulkner heirlooms going to auction in New York 2013-04-10T13:36:08Z

I get the same feeling when I talk about the previous owner of our home, Miss Dixie, who glued a recipe for her tomato pie inside of my kitchen cabinet here in Mississippi. What is "southern" food? Dale Gray takes readers from South Africa to South Korea for the answer 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

Beth Batton, curator of the permanent collection at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss., said in an e-mail that the spread humanizes the condition of the Gulf coast animals and environment. Viva Vogue Italia? Oil-inspired spread stirs muck 2010-08-10T19:22:00Z

The same traits for which Mississippi gets unjustly lambasted are actually the consequences of long-term conservatism. Don’t write off Mississippi: Before you dismiss us as “a garbage state,” listen to the queer Southerners you’re leaving behind 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Now a national park nestled amid abandoned redbrick mills, the falls are majestic in their natural beauty, one of the most powerful waterfalls east of the Mississippi. A foodies’ tour of Paterson, N.J., the city (sort of) founded by Alexander Hamilton 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Unplanned and unrehearsed, this big-eyed black girl from Mississippi, showed the world how to look at itself ... Celebrities flock to Oprah's penultimate show 2011-05-24T21:25:00Z

And there are moments — a rakish “Bright Mississippi,” a galumphing “Brilliant Corners” — when the band sounds properly dangerous. New Music: New Music by Kevin Hufnagel, Jimmy Owens and Guided by Voices 2012-01-03T00:53:03Z

For nearly 15 years, beginning in 1940, Mississippi used a “traveling electric chair” that moved from county to county to execute prisoners convicted of capital crimes. Echoes of Willie McGee?s Execution, on NPR 2010-05-05T23:20:00Z

“Spring Storm” occupies, as you might expect, the American South, specifically Mississippi in and around the Critchfield home, where 22-year-old daughter Heavenly — there’s a Williams name for you! — is having pretty serious guy problems. Review: The Young and Ever Restless Tennessee Williams 2010-04-20T12:41:00Z

In Mississippi, Schapiro captured Baldwin in intimate conversation with Medgar Evers just a few months before the latter was slain. A civil rights photographer's march through years of American struggle 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

I think Mississippi State rings a cowbell for their football games and they were trying to get me down to come and march on the field with a cowbell. SXSW 2015: Will Ferrell Answers Readers' Questions 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mississippi Emergency Management Director Lee Smithson told his staff on April 6 that the Red Cross’ response was “marginal at best.” The Red Cross is its own disaster: Relief agency stumbles again after Mississippi flood 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

And now, in “Mississippi Blood,” Iles concludes what is surely one of the longest, most successfully sustained works of popular fiction in recent memory. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

They started out at the Guthrie in Minneapolis, then went to the Southwest — Arizona, New Mexico — then to the South — Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi — and to the Northeast — New Jersey, Vermont. ArtsBeat: 'Henry' in the Hinterlands: Five Questions About 'Still on the Road' 2011-01-03T16:01:34Z

He was born very far from there — in Mississippi, in 1953 — moved frequently as a boy and studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Trapani took inspiration from blues recordings made after the 1927 Mississippi River flood, meshing influences from the American South with the spectral music he heard while working in Paris. James Baker Leads the Talea Ensemble at Roulette 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Brad Arnold, frontman of Mississippi rock washouts 3 Doors Down, sang, “This is a call to the broken/Stand up and take back your world today.” The incoherent music of Trumpism 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

As a senator, he travelled to Mississippi to search out the poverty that the state’s leaders ignored. A work in progress 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

And the state was Mississippi, where the Confederate symbol still remained a part of the official flag. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Together, the books recounted the private trials of one Mississippi family while illuminating more than 50 years of troubled racial history. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

The remaining $25 million will be distributed among the gulf states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Gulf spill oil well investor to pay record fine 2012-02-18T05:55:00Z

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 sweeps in, taking a few unlucky characters with it. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

One is the history of the Louisiana Native Guard, a black Civil War regiment assigned to Ship Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z

Ms. McNamara, 37, who has used Southwest for years for direct flights to visit family in Texas, New Mexico and Mississippi, said the current fiasco won’t keep her from booking with the airline again. What Caused the Chaos at Southwest 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

International ship captains aren’t authorized to pilot ships on the Mississippi because they are not practiced in handling the narrow, fast, traffic-dense water. “Water is where I find my peace”: Meet the master river pilot who conquers the Mississippi every day 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Allison used his cool, clear voice to conversational effect, with an easy blues inflection that harked back to his upbringing in rural Mississippi. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

For example, to determine how long a wine’s finish is, she says try counting “one Mississippi, two Mississippi” and so on after taking a taste. I can’t go to Italy’s wine-growing regions, so I took an online wine-education course 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

For a University of Mississippi football game, it is best to arrive on Thursday or Friday night. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

You could also describe it as an accretion of familiar ingredients: "Mad Men" plus "Steel Magnolias" plus "To Kill a Mockingbird" plus "Mississippi Burning." "The Help": A tale of not-so-ancient American history 2011-08-10T00:30:00Z

State officials in Louisiana and Mississippi declared states of emergency, and voluntary evacuations were ordered for some low-lying areas. Gulf Coast braces for flooding from Tropical Storm Lee 2011-09-03T02:20:00Z

If you want native witch hazels, a species from Mississippi named Hamamelis ovalis and related to the vernal witch hazel is a delightful thing with profuse clusters of spiky, carmine-red blooms. Mild weather brings unusual activity to the January garden, both distressing and delightful 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Some of his best known songs include "Yankee Lady," ''Biloxi," ''The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" and "Mississippi, You're On My Mind." Singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester dead at 69 2014-04-12T04:58:02Z

The Mississippi River winds cinematically through many of the recounted lives. Lives intertwine in Charles Baxter’s ‘There’s Something I Want You to Do’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Watson was born in Meridian, Mississippi—just like Dill in “To Kill a Mockingbird”—and left there straight out of high school with dreams of becoming an actor. “Something was wrong with Aunt Jane”: Brad Watson on the uncommon woman behind his new novel, writing difference and the appeal of “fly-over” country 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

JACKSON, Miss. — A Grammy museum will be built in Mississippi, the hub of the Delta blues. Grammy Museum branching out with site in Miss. 2011-04-21T19:41:08Z

An emergency landing by pilots failed, and the small aircraft instead crashed in a Mississippi forest. The 7 most tragic band deaths in rock history 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

I think of the slavery revolts, the real insurrections that happened on plantations on the Mississippi River. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

And a pending Supreme Court case over a Mississippi law could upend the 49-year-old abortion protections set by Roe v. She ended a pregnancy so her child wouldn’t suffer. Now she helps others like her. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mississippi wouldn’t allow quack science to convict the wrong people if white citizens primarily bore the burden. The Epidemic of Wrongful Convictions in America 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

He says California is more racist than Mississippi, that its people are solipsistic and self-serving. John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z

North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi and Utah now only have one clinic per state. John Oliver Tackles Abortion On 'Last Week Tonight' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Based on the students’ projects, two schools — in Mississippi and Georgia — were named national winners. NASA crews show their creativity in long history of mission patches 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

And in the year Ohr died, in Mississippi, even locally all but unknown, Brancusi finished his first version of“Endless Column,” on view just beyond the gallery door. MoMA Reboots With ‘Modernism Plus’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Mississippi” and “Fleabag” are intentionally very funny, even as they steadily submerge the viewer into deeply uncomfortable emotional territory. The half-hour heartbreak: Amazon’s new comedies find laughs in painful places 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Gary Collins, Host of Miss America Pageant, Dies at 74 Gary Collins, a prolific actor, a television host and a master of ceremonies for the Miss America pageant, died in Mississippi, on Saturday. Gary Collins, Host of Miss America Pageant, Dies at 74 2012-10-14T00:55:04Z

And life goes on in Season 2 of “One Mississippi.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘La La Land’ and ‘One Mississippi’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Among the remaining selections, “Jackson” examines reproductive rights at Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic. At the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, a Lot of the Humans Are Women 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

He recalled the jet lag, and wandering around, soaking it all in - the trees, the grass, the houses, the difference between Mississippi’s capital and the big city of Shanghai. Ling coaches daughter at International Ballet 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

“There are a lot of storytellers down there,” the soft-spoken Griffin says of Mississippi. The quiet impresario: Pulling the right strings at the Folger 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Meredith graduated from high school in St. Petersburg, Florida, and enlisted in the U.S. James Meredith film weighs ‘complicated’ civil rights figure 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

A portrait of a mother in Mississippi, smiling tentatively as she holds her gaptoothed beaming daughter, is remarkable primarily because the woman’s left arm emerges as a residual limb from her short-sleeved sweater. Donna Ferrato’s Camera Is a Weapon for Women 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

In 1957, the legal age for marriage in Mississippi was 14 for men and 12 for women, though it was revised upwards by a law passed that year. Great Balls of Fire! Jerry Lee Lewis biopic strikes wrong note on scandal 2012-08-23T11:49:00Z

There are people be like from Clarksdale, Mississippi, and they be like, "We don't sound like that." Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

The festival is being held Friday and Saturday at Mardi Gras World, the huge studio and warehouse on the bank of the Mississippi River where Carnival floats are made. Buku music fest returns to NOLA with bigger lineup 2013-03-07T16:29:13Z

The gregarious 57-year-old Slovenian has swum the lengths of the Amazon, Yangtze and Mississippi Rivers, so this particular 2.2-mile jaunt was really no big whoop. Let’s swim to work! 2012-09-15T13:30:00Z

Cruise the Mississippi River in old-fashioned style on this authentic steamboat. With steamboats and beignets, it’s no surprise New Orleans is a great destination for families 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

One of the better of Mississippi Records’ curated compilations of early, scratchy, ghostly American gospel and pre-war blues music, “Last Kind Words” is named for Geeshie Wiley’s rare Paramount records side. Unsung Heroes: Tips on reissues by Lewis, Gun Club, Pia Zadora, more 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Romance really doesn't last long in the soon-to-be-joined vampire kingdoms of Louisiana and Mississippi. "True Blood" recap: Girls get even 2010-07-26T12:15:00Z

Instead the exhibition places Winfrey and her show squarely in the context of the America of her youth in 1950s rural Mississippi, examining how that America helped inspire her. The importance of being Oprah: media personality at centre of exhibition 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The club’s name refers to the the birthplace of the blues: Legend has it that early blues guitarist Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi blues promoter and raconteur Bill Luckett dies 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

She was working on a novel about black maids in 1950s Mississippi, but Spencer paid it no heed. Octavia Spencer: ‘You need to see people of colour in big movies’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

How it works: Forget the "Deep South" races in Mississippi and Alabama. Close battle for delegates in South 2012-03-13T23:49:00Z

Staackman said he believed the Mississippi law, which recently went into effect on July 1, was simply a ploy to shelter the state’s meat industry. Don’t call it a burger! Meat industry fights back as interest grows in plant-based food 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

She would argue this is to impress upon him the risks of an interracial relationship in Mississippi but also because she’d prefer him to be dating a black girl. When Excellence Is a Survival Strategy 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Timothy B. Tyson, author of “The Blood of Emmett Till,” says the grotesque image of the black teenager murdered in 1955 by whites in Mississippi was a crucial part of the civil rights movement. Photo of Salvadoran refugees shows power of still images 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

A beautiful nature trail meanders through the community, and Greenbelt Park runs along the banks of the Mississippi River offering walking, hiking, and running opportunities. Budget Escapes 2010-05-12T17:32:00Z

“She was a woman of formidable intellect,” we read, and “the best conversationalist this side of the Mississippi.” ‘The Mockingbird Next Door’ by Marja Mills 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The exhibition ends with something completely different: a DVD projection of all 25 scenes from a 348-foot-long painted panorama about life along the Mississippi, made around 1850 and now in the St. Louis Art Museum. Review: George Caleb Bingham’s Serene Images of Rivers and Frontier Life, at the Met 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Cooper, who works for Stockett's brother, launched a tearful tirade to reporters outside the Mississippi court. The Help maid loses court case over character's identity 2011-08-17T12:05:22Z

When someone reveals their secret, the repercussions aren’t just from above, and the fallout tests their Mississippi plantation community. 10 books to read in January 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

His nonfiction books include "Life on the Mississippi," "Roughing It," "A Tramp Abroad" and heaps of newspaper articles, opinion pieces and public lectures. Library of Congress presents 'Mark Twain's America' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

For less than 3 cents an acre, the United States gained rights to 828,000 square miles west of the Mississippi River. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

After reading about my most recent novel dealing with race in Jim Crow Mississippi, the principal of a private school in Minneapolis invited me to speak with his fifth-grade students. I am a recovering racist: I was somehow taught hate as a gift of love 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

She also became involved in the civil rights movement, working in Mississippi and raising money for the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee. Jayne Cortez 2013-01-04T14:55:35Z

“He told us he was going down to Jackson, Mississippi, to speak,” Bailey recalled. Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Deep South” recounts road trips taken in Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas and elsewhere below the Mason-Dixon line. Review: In ‘Deep South,’ Paul Theroux Takes an Eye-Opening Road Trip 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

While the majority of the movie will be filmed in Greenwood, Brunson said a few scenes also will shot in Jackson and other cities in north Mississippi. 'The Help' to start filming in Miss. this summer 2010-05-13T23:16:00Z

While establishing herself as a writer, Welty photographed scenes of everyday life in Mississippi during the Great Depression for the Works Progress Administration. Eudora Welty letters released 2 decades after author’s death 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

It's in the historic Mississippi neighbourhood, so you will find plenty to see just outside the door. Top 10 cultural hotspots in Portland, Oregon 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z

Haley Barbour in Mississippi - recently seemed to downplay the role of slavery, Burns said there is no question it was at the root of the conflict. National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z

She was the first black to serve as chairman of the Mississippi State Board of Education in the 1980s. Mother of GMA co-host Robin Roberts dies 2012-08-31T12:48:10Z

When Taylor hosted a dance party at his Mississippi home during the shoot for “Ma,” Lewis got so amped during the hip-hop staple “Jump” that she got the crowd to leap simultaneously. Juliette Lewis, an ‘Imagination Freak Fairy,’ Knows Her Worth 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

But the verdant island looks like a spot on the Mississippi, and the glamorously skimpy swimwear on some of the well-conditioned locals brings to mind Rio or Miami. 36 Hours in Kiev, Ukraine 2012-06-21T19:38:44Z

The first is a small tributary that threads along the edge of town, dividing it from its neighbors and connecting it to the flow of the Mississippi. A Photographer's Search for the Meaning of Womanhood in White, Blue-Collar America 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

I was taken back to Mississippi in the summers,” she told the reference work Contemporary Black Biography. Varnette Honeywood, Whose Art Appeared on ?Cosby Show,? Dies at 59 2010-09-16T15:09:00Z

When a copywriter heads to Mississippi to help register black voters, you get the sense that he is doing so solely to experience “adventure.” ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The mighty Mississippi, the most powerful river in the country, bends toward her banks and rushes on. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z

At least one, the Mississippi Museum of Art, has already taken up the challenge. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

If it is convened, Mississippi would be only the second state, after North Carolina, to undertake such a commission. Susan Glisson 2013-09-12T13:51:29.517Z

She has upcoming performances scheduled next month in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina. Country singer Loretta Lynn in hospital with pneumonia 2011-10-23T02:14:25Z

Ms. Schirmer said that since the start of 2014, the recipe for Mississippi Roast has been pinned more than one million times. The Improbable Rise of Mississippi Roast 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

The book focuses on JoJo, a biracial teenage boy in Mississippi whose mother is erratic and conflicted, and whose father is about to be released from prison. Best books of 2017: The best fiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The Washington Post described an Etran Finatawa performance as "Middle Eastern prayer, Mississippi blues and West African folklore ... performed with a palpable passion." Etran Finatawa brings 'nomad's blues' to Neumos 2010-07-22T21:50:00Z

At least these two young women aren't singing about communing with the devil at the crossroads in some ill-advised Mississippi Delta revivalism. Rainy start to day one of Lollapalooza 2013-08-02T20:41:00Z

Parker is a doctor at Mississippi’s last operating abortion clinic, which legislators in the state have been attempting to shut down. Weekend Reading: Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, Airbnb Battles, and More 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

"The Help," released in 2011, was filmed in several Mississippi locations, including Greenwood and Jackson. James Brown biopic to be filmed in Mississippi 2013-08-26T17:46:54Z

But, when the war ends, the state is reabsorbed into Mississippi, and Reconstruction begins. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

“One Mississippi,” the rare show to commit to its harassment story line, feels like the series best equipped to respond to this moment. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

“Low pay, no insurance, top managers waste time on cell phones and… get involved in personal relationships with subordinates that caused preferential treatment,” a Newton, Mississippi, employee wrote on September 2. Fast food restaurants don’t need to pay starvation wages 2013-09-11T15:11:00Z

After running away several times he was sent to live with his grandparents in Mississippi, where he started singing and playing guitar in his grandfather’s church. Hank Cochran, Country Music Songwriter, Dies at 74 2010-07-17T05:33:00Z

He also depicted poverty in rural Appalachia and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi during the early 1960s. Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74 2010-03-25T12:22:00Z

Ailey’s single masterpiece, with its “Wade in the Water ” baptism, it is the company’s true Mississippi, and next to it, “The River” is just another stream. Dance Review: Ailey Program Moves to Duke Ellington Works 2013-12-17T21:54:02Z

He graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Tex., and received a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi, from which he also received a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology. Jacqueline Terrebonne, Austin Smith 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Her 1955 hit Making Believe was on the film soundtrack of Mississippi Burning, released 33 years later. Country singer Wells dies at 92 2012-07-17T08:26:59Z

Tig Notaro, the comedian whose Amazon series, “One Mississippi,” lists Louis C.K. as an executive producer, is one of the few in the fiercely insular comedy world to speak out against him. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

“Yes, things are part bad in Alabama, but they are also part bad in Arkansas, in Louisiana, in Mississippi – states where at a policy level health has been deprioritized.” Alabama: black women die of cervical cancer at more than twice national average 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Again, she tells a tragic story about an African American family challenged with dissolution, but the threats here are more complex and even more tenacious than the tempest that clawed through Louisiana and Mississippi. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

She was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000. At 79, activist Marian Wright Edelman keeps fighting for what’s right 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

The current governor, Republican Tate Reeves, signed a bill Thursday to replace “Go, Mississippi” with a new song called “One Mississippi.” ‘One Mississippi’ replaces state song that had racist roots 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

And yet Louisiana is just the latest in a number of states — including Texas, Alabama and Mississippi — to pass this unnecessary restriction, further jeopardizing access to basic reproductive healthcare in the South. Conservative’s real “reproductive health” plot: “These incremental laws are part of a greater strategy to end abortion” 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Located at the juncture of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, St. Louis was where the Southern system of slavery met the push for western expansion. Rivers Merge in St. Louis. So Do Racism, Violence and Exclusion. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

He said last week he would perform live for the first time since the emergency on May 28 in Biloxi, Mississippi and will kick off a tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd on June 10 in Florida. Michaels still getting headaches after brain hemorrhage 2010-05-19T21:53:00Z

The deputies finally accosted someone who knew that Washington had absconded from Alabama to Mississippi and boarded a bus. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Nicole Patterson, 26, who is from Mississippi, said lack of abortion access there “can be a death sentence to Black women.” At New York’s Pride weekend, a noticeable cloud from the Supreme Court 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Slavery there was as brutal as it was in Mississippi or Alabama; slaves were often beaten so badly that they died or became crippled. London’s Legacy in the Slave Trade 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Broadway lyricists and Mississippi Delta blues artists alike composed songs in his honor. FDR’s most important lesson: Liberal causes could still inspire activism on a grand scale 2014-04-27T13:00:00Z

“This is the first time that a distinguished concert artist has joined other entertainment personalities in boycotting Mississippi’s capital since last year’s racial demonstrations,” an article in The New York Times said. Piano Stars Gather for a Legend’s 90th 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

The former slaves and freedmen claimed Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, a nation known as New Colonia. Amazon’s ‘Black America’ Imagines a New Nation in the South 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Their primary contribution was the 12-bar blues, which introduced the city's white residents to the sounds and rhythms of the Mississippi Delta. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

For any of these vegetables, bring along a seasoning blend such as Jane’s Krazy Mixed-Up Salt or Shapley’s Seasoning from Mississippi. Perspective | Need new ideas for summer road trip snacks? These 11 chefs have you covered. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

All the narcoleptics in Mississippi fall asleep in unison while crossing roads. The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith ? review 2011-04-02T23:17:32Z

Now you’ll need a microscope to find the most important ingredients at breweries like Ebb & Flow Fermentations, a microbial-minded operation in Cape Girardeau, Mo., near the Mississippi River. Craft Beer Fans Know Hops. But What About Yeast? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

One of his best songs, “Mississippi,” was left off “Time out of Mind,” in part because Dylan and his producer, Daniel Lanois, felt the performances were lacking. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z

The French influence lingers in the form of beignets, though not the airy squares of choux pastry you might enjoy with chicory coffee in New Orleans, a Mississippi breeze blowing confectioner’s sugar on your pants. Chez Dior: You don’t have to miss Senegal to feel at home here 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

“The photo is on Instagram with hundreds of ‘likes,’ and no one said a thing,” said the complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica. Fraternity students face investigation after posing with guns in front of Emmett Till memorial 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Kiese Laymon, a writer and professor at the University of Mississippi who wrote the foreword for “Bone,” was introduced to Ms. Daley-Ward’s poems by his students, who showed him her poem “emergency warning.” Meet Yrsa Daley-Ward, the Bard of Instagram 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Bills similar to Georgia’s have been passed, and in most cases challenged, in Iowa, North Dakota, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Ohio. The Messiness of Reproduction and the Dishonesty of Anti-Abortion Propaganda 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Somewhere in Mississippi, it’s another sleepy, dusty delta day. Whatever happened to Bobbie Gentry? In search of country music's great vanished star. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

My very good friend, Bella Karragianidis, is a professional photographer and came to Mississippi to photograph many of the images you see in the book today. What is "southern" food? Dale Gray takes readers from South Africa to South Korea for the answer 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

Recipe: Mississippi Hush Puppies These rolls start with frozen bread dough but taste as if they're made from scratch--perfect for no-fuss entertaining. 100 Ways to Cook Southern 2010-10-21T18:01:00Z

Although Mr. Turchin was part of a liberal Jewish family that supports gay rights, Mr. Bass’s Mississippi roots were more rigid. Lance Bass Marries Michael Turchin in California 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z

The drama primarily unfolds in North Carthage, Mo., a fictional Mississippi River town — the community where Nick was raised and where he and Amy move after they lose their writing jobs at New York magazines. Thrills, chills for Gillian Flynn in adapting 'Gone Girl' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

This inn dates to 1910 and is within walking distance of the Mississippi River. How I broke our family’s road-trip tradition and ventured west of the Mississippi 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“It used to be full of drugs, gangs, just really edgy,” Katie Burnett, a marketer for Imbibe magazine, told me over drinks at a lively Mississippi Avenue bar called Interurban. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

There were more trees now, as the land gradually shifted from the agriculture of the delta to the thick bayou forests of southern Mississippi and Louisiana. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Raised in Gulfport, Mississippi, Abrams was “steeped in not just the history of what voter suppression is, but I was raised to believe that when you see a problem, your job is to solve it”. 'We are entitled to being heard': Stacey Abrams on the fight to vote 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

I could have plucked a Mississippi town and set our show there. Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burius had been at the Kungliga Biblioteket, or Royal Library, for 10 years before a chance request from a patron about a map of the Mississippi River drew attention to a missing volume. Swedish Royal Library Recovers Stolen 1597 Atlas in New York 2012-06-27T01:20:09Z

The book is not a thriller, but it shows Grisham’s passion for a sport he’s loved since his days playing on his high school team in Mississippi. John Grisham talks basketball — and books 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

In Jesmyn Ward’s Mississippi, one must grow inured to the rituals of killing and butchering animals for sustenance. In ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing,’ a Haunted Road Trip to Prison 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Revered as a milestone of US literature, Faulkner's 1930 novel charts the trudging progress of a Mississippi family on the way to bury their mother. James Franco to direct William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy adaptations 2011-01-04T13:05:43Z

Hannah was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and grew up in Clinton, near the state capital, Jackson. Barry Hannah obituary 2010-05-20T17:43:00Z

Taylor said at the Mississippi Coliseum on the state fairgrounds in Jackson, where some scenes will be shot. James Brown biopic to be filmed in Mississippi 2013-08-26T17:46:54Z

Computer technology didn’t exist when he took these pictures in and around the Mississippi Delta, where he lived. Inside Art: Vermeer?s ?Girl With a Pearl Earring? to Visit Frick in 2013 2012-01-27T00:06:12Z

Three generations of black women confront floods and murder in Mississippi. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Next to it is a photographic portrait of the impeccable Bass Reeves, the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi, with his handlebar mustache. Comics That Dismantle the White Cowboy Myth 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

But he also ran the nonprofit Ordway Center for the Performing Arts across the Mississippi River in St. Paul during the late 1990s, making him familiar with the work of Children’s Theater. ‘Wimpy’ or Not, This Kid Might Make It to Broadway 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. King was born in 1925, the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi. Artists Respond to B. B. King's Death on Social Media 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

When the gallery failed, he moved back in with his mother in Mississippi and began making his art copies. Painting imitator in 'Art and Craft' documentary says he wanted attention, not fortune 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

One concerns the black student James Meredith, who in 1962, in the face of violent opposition, compelled the segregated University of Mississippi to enroll him. Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z

The largest county east of the Mississippi, Aroostook is an expanse of forest and farmland the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, with just 67,000 people scattered throughout the whole thing. Driving the States of Maine 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

In a rural stretch of Arkansas, a few folks live in wooden shacks along the Mississippi, as comfortable on the river as on land. Mud: Matthew McConaughey as an Outlaw in Love 2013-04-26T22:10:07Z

The band, which formed in Mississippi in the '90s and touts a straight-up rock `n' roll sound with such hits as "Away From The Sun" and "Kryptonite," did not elaborate on the statement. Cops: 3 Doors Down bassist charged in road fatal 2013-04-21T12:23:55Z

“Music overcomes a lot of things,” he writes, “but not the segregation of Mississippi in the 1940s.” What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Stuffed with Mississippi blues, voodoo funk, and contemporary references to crack houses, the Night Tripper is in exhilarating, vintage form. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z

Habitats critical to the survival of many species are becoming worn around the edges, however, from the Mississippi River delta to Florida’s mangroves and the barrier islands of the Carolinas. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z

We learned that the first bridge to span the Mississippi was built on the island. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

"Murder in Mississippi" and the "Four Freedoms" remind us of what we must not repeat and what we want for all our citizens. Review: Norman Rockwell more than just an illustrator, Tacoma exhibition shows 2011-04-15T00:34:43Z

Born in Jackson, Ms. Welty lived here most of her life and made Mississippi her subject. 36 Hours in Jackson, Miss. 2013-05-30T17:27:31Z

In the wake of the passage Mississippi’s horrifying anti-LGBT “religious liberty” law, House Bill 1523, some commentators have argued that boycotts against the state are unlikely to effect how they govern. The Bryan Adams factor: One singer canceling a show won’t stop a hate bill, but these actions add up 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

“It was an excuse to throw a party,” said Ms. Flatt, who streamed the event live on Ustream for relatives in Mississippi. At Parties, Revealing a Baby?s Gender 2012-04-07T07:27:49Z

The movie boasts a fine female cast of Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer as maids in 1960s Mississippi who are persuaded by a kind-hearted socialite to write about their experiences of looking after white families. Planet of the Apes keeps on rising at US box office with The Help close at hand 2011-08-15T12:39:56Z

Hailing from Jackson, Mississippi, Thomas’ previous claim to fame was, by her own admission, an article about her precocious rapping skills in the now-defunct teen magazine Right On! “The Hate U Give”: Angie Thomas’ sensational debut novel should be required reading for clueless white people 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

The second component of what we do … We started last year by going to Alabama and Mississippi. “It’s really terrifying”: Lizz Winstead on stealth antiabortion laws and fighting politicians in “their last grasp of hanging on to unearned power” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The Mississippi of the 1920s was a “kleptocracy,” he writes, where African Americans were routinely stripped of their land and possessions through trickery or force. With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the son of the Delta blues musician Robert Johnson retains the rights to the only two known photographs of his father and the profits from those pictures, . ArtsBeat: Son of Robert Johnson to Retain Photograph Rights 2014-02-21T16:53:39Z

Artistic director of Ballet Magnificat, a touring Mississippi ballet troupe founded in 1986 on Christian values. Artists in the age of Trump 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Last week, Dermansky again visited the beaches and marshes along the Louisiana and Mississippi coast — some of the worst hit areas where crews are still cleaning up tar mats and tar balls. The Gulf Coast may never recover 2013-04-23T20:02:00Z

The headstone project follows the path of earlier efforts like the Mount Zion Memorial Fund, which emerged two decades ago when the Mississippi church where blues legend Robert Johnson was buried faced foreclosure. Grave marker project helps bury the blues 2013-12-30T14:37:27Z

The program shows Hamer’s legacy as an advocate for voting and women’s rights and explains how she went from working as a sharecropper in Mississippi to organizing grass-roots campaigns. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches’ and Awards Shows 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Tailgating at the University of Mississippi in Oxford is another must. What Reese Witherspoon Likes About the South 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mississippi represents the biggest challenge yet for the fight against anti-LGBT legislation in the United States. Boycotts won’t save Mississippi: Hollywood helped kill Georgia’s anti-LGBT bill, but this state might have nothing left to lose 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Those items and more from the monster hurricane that battered New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,600 people, are part of a stunning new exhibit opening Oct. Tales of Katrina told through La. museum exhibit 2010-10-23T18:01:00Z

He is the chairman of the department of dermatology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, not a spokesman for the American Academy of Dermatology. Making Age Spots a Thing of the Past 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

That sentiment swung into Mississippi, the last place in the nation to incorporate the emblem into its state flag. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

To get a jump-start on the next centennial, I squeezed up as close to the Mississippi as possible without falling in. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

They both played maids who face discrimination in the film set in Mississippi during the 1960s. "The Help" gets Oscar boost with big SAG wins 2012-01-31T00:08:37Z

Chargrilled oysters may turn up on the buffet table in Mississippi; meaty baked beans appear in Kansas; in the Carolinas, add heaps of vinegar-tinged pulled pork. Hot Links and Red Drinks: The Rich Food Tradition of Juneteenth 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

In 1982 he became a writer in residence at the University of Mississippi, and later was the director of its M.F.A. and creative writing program. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z

By Martin’s count, they have pumped almost $800,000 into the Mississippi race through the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, and McDaniel has been either up or in a dead heat in the latest polls. In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth

The two were arrested late on Sunday in Union County, Mississippi, and transported across the state line to Hardeman County, where they were booked early on Monday, said Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards. Wife, mother arrested, search continues for kidnap-murder suspect 2012-05-09T12:29:00Z

Welty’s niece, Mary Alice White, said in a news release from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that the newly released letters begin with the courtship of Welty’s parents. Eudora Welty letters released 2 decades after author’s death 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Cochran was born in Isola, a small town in the Mississippi delta. Hank Cochran obituary 2010-07-21T17:43:00Z

“Mississippi Grind,” from the team behind the indie darling “Half Nelson,” finds Mr. Reynolds playing a charismatic gambler. Sundance 2015: Ryan Reynolds and Noah Baumbach Draw Mixed Verdicts 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

“Ma” was predominantly shot in Natchez, Mississippi, a short drive from where Taylor lives and runs his production company, Wyolah Films. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The music was relatively undemanding in the morning, with the North Mississippi Allstars Duo playing unpretentious, if derivative southern rock. The Big Chill: day three ? review 2011-08-08T12:45:29Z

The intense, two-week course included one week on the students' turf in Mississippi and one week in New York. Fox News anchor Smith teaches Ole Miss students 2011-05-26T11:46:10Z

“A million and a half geese coming up the Mississippi and Central flyways,” he said, ignoring me. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z

Gibson, 47, who hails from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, combines Western contemporary art with indigenous materials and styles in his pieces. MacArthur ‘genius’ grants launch winners from obscurity: ‘Now I feel like I’m working with a face’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

American journalist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862, five months and two weeks before the delivery of the Emancipation Proclamation. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Kern, the son of a sign painter, grew up poor on Algiers Point across the Mississippi River from the city’s famed French Quarter. Blaine Kern Sr., New Orleans’ ‘Mr. Mardi Gras,’ dies at 93 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The fair is known for immersive installations, such as a new work by longtime Spring/Break contributor Azikiwe Mohammed, who reimagines the Subway Lounge, a basement club in Jackson, Mississippi’s Summers Hotel. The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Robert Gordon’s biography of Muddy Waters, “Can’t Be Satisfied,” and Robert Palmer’s “Deep Blues” are both excellent on Waters and his journey from Mississippi to the South Side. A Buddy Guy Soundtrack 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

It showed the face of Emmett Till, the Black boy from Chicago who was lynched at 14 while visiting Mississippi in one of the most brutal hate crimes of the last century. Julian Gaines Has a Question: ‘How Do I Paint Oregon Black?’ 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

And worse: “If it came to fighting I’d fight for Mississippi against the United States even if it meant going out into the streets and shooting Negroes.” The Trauma of the Civil War Lives On in Faulkner’s Fiction 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

“Sitting on Top of the World” was recorded in 1930 by the Mississippi Sheiks. ‘The Sound of Music,’ ‘Rumours’ and More Join the National Recording Registry 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

A prize winner at the 1991 Venice Film Festival, still fresh and newly relevant, “Mississippi Masala” has been restored for a run at the IFC Center in Manhattan, starting Friday. ‘Mississippi Masala’: A Love Story Among the Displaced 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

And though the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in Mississippi in 1863, the enslaved population at the Polk plantation didn’t learn of their freedom for another two years. The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Speaking of the recent legislation in Mississippi, Mr. Burton was blunt. Gary Burton Cancels Mississippi Show, Calling Legislation ‘An Attack’ 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

“Arkansas was another Mississippi,” said Arnold, who lives in Arkansas. One in three US births happen by C-section but it varies widely by hospital 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Now 88, this daughter of a shrimp fisherman spent years on the waters between Texas and the mouth of the Mississippi. Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes from New Orleans 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

But the whole time they’re gone to war, Bon is thinking of Judith, and when the two young men at last ride back to Mississippi, Henry knows he must act. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z

The change will happen July 1 — two years after Mississippi retired a Confederate-themed state flag. ‘One Mississippi’ replaces state song that had racist roots 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Travel industry executives and officials in North Carolina and in Mississippi are attempting to counter the message that they say the legislation delivers. North Carolina and Mississippi See Tourist Backlash After L.G.B.T. Laws 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Everyone, though, needs to book passage on a riverboat and ride the currents of the mighty Mississippi. Things Every Southerner Must Do! 2010-07-14T22:49:00Z

Mississippi Grind is a premium showcase for his gifts: the charisma to burn, the smile of a man who seems born lucky, the slight uncertainty beneath. Ryan Reynolds: from buff buffoon to Hollywood heavyweight 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

An overweight black boy grows up in an intellectual, loving but sometimes violent Mississippi household — and becomes an award-winning writer and university professor. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The Congress of Racial Equality opts not to send her to Mississippi to protest the killings of the three civil rights workers, Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner; the organization wants to overcome, not out-hector. Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z

A Mississippi newspaper is fighting back after TV commentator Keith Olbermann criticized its story about a hunter killing a rare white turkey. Mississippi newspaper hits back after Keith Olbermann calls for writer to be fired over turkey-hunting article 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

After “Coming of Age in Mississippi” was published, the response was split. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

To those who have only heard the blues of the Mississippi Delta and Chicago or its musical descendants in rock music, the rolling rhythms of the Piedmont blues may sound surprisingly gentle, even somewhat subdued. Celebrating a subdued kind of blues 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The 1935 “Mississippi,” directed by A. Edward Sutherland, finds Crosby stepping into a purely romantic role originally intended for the tenor Lanny Ross. DVDs: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know 2010-12-25T03:53:01Z

While "Roughing It" has long, wonderful passages, and "Pudd'nhead Wilson," "Tom Sawyer" and "Life on the Mississippi" are near-classics, many of Twain's other books are almost unreadable today. 'Mark Twain': the ebb and flow of the life of Huckleberry Finn's creator 2010-04-07T22:29:00Z

Fish and Wildlife Service for permission to shoot the annual mayfly hatch on the Mississippi River. Brazilian film crew wants to shoot mayflies 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

The book is set in an ailing Missouri river town on the banks of the Mississippi – the same giant waterway that inspired Mark Twain. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z

OXFORD, Miss. — Five decades after his death, William Faulkner still draws literary pilgrims to his Mississippi hometown, the "little postage stamp of native soil" he made famous through his novels. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

Mississippi was also No. 46 in the highest separation or divorce rates and No. 49 in family fun. Best and worst states to raise a family in 2021: study 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

Other deaths from the weekend storms were reported in Kentucky and Mississippi. Nashville's famed music quieted by flooding 2010-05-05T15:47:00Z

The company already operates American Queen on the Mississippi and American Empress in the Pacific Northwest. 2017 cruise news: Alaska boom, more in-depth experiences 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

After lauded turns in one-man film Buried and in The Voices, last year he won some of his best praise from critics for his role in the offbeat road movie Mississippi Grind. Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

We drove east, past rolling farmland and snowmobile-crossing signs and over rivers that, a century or so ago, were choked with pine logs on their way to the Chippewa River, and then to the Mississippi. A Road Trip to the Fiberglass Frontier of Northern Wisconsin 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Till, a native of Chicago, was in Mississippi visiting family in 1955 when he was killed. Epic to pull song with offending Lil Wayne lyric 2013-02-14T04:37:09Z

Mississippi topped the list, with presale tickets four times higher than expected. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' leading ticket sales on Fandango, Movietickets 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

From there, it was on to the University of Mississippi to study fashion merchandising, and then New York or bust. The Stylist Jeanann Williams Discusses Dressing the Stars for Oscar Night 2014-02-28T20:30:12Z

Vietnamese restaurants, which were largely cloistered in New Orleans East and immigrant enclaves on the Mississippi River’s West Bank, have opened in the middle of the city. The New Orleans Restaurant Bounce, After Katrina 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Mississippi, the last entirely dry state, only repealed Prohibition in 1966. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z

That would be the April 1927 flood of the Mississippi River, which inundated 27,000 square miles, displaced more than a million people and inspired, among other works, the heartbreaking Bessie Smith record “Backwater Blues.” 1927 ‘Great Flood’ still timely, especially with Bill Frisell 2013-03-01T21:25:10Z

But his legend lives on today — not just in France, but across the pond in his namesake Midwestern city on the mighty Mississippi. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

This is a common sentiment in white Mississippi — that the Confederate battle flag is a historic banner that embodies the noble service and sacrifice of men who fought for “states’ rights.” In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Folks from the “Creole Coast” and lower Mississippi Valley said that gumbo must be on the menu — whether it was turkey or based on the game or seafood of the season. The roots of black Thanksgiving: Why mac and cheese and potato salad are so popular 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

He founded the Mississippi Land Company with the young Virginia lawyers Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, along with four Lees and other Ohio Company members, seeking 2.5 million acres across the new boundary line. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Attorney Chad Lamar of the Northern District of Mississippi in Oxford said the information has been referred to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for further investigation. Fraternity students face investigation after posing with guns in front of Emmett Till memorial 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

The back story to the civil rights period is the European slave trade, which arrived in what is now Mississippi with Spanish colonists in the 16th century, and expanded under French, then British occupation. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

“One Mississippi” tries to hit many notes in its short run — grief, light comedy, anger, small-town whimsy — and the shifts can be jarring. Review: Have You Heard the One About the Grieving Daughter? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Originally imported to the United States in the 1960s to eat the algae that were clogging commercial fish farms, the carp may have entered the Mississippi River system as early as the 1970s. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

Reagan actually dropped in the polls in Mississippi. How Ronald Reagan Triumphed 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

It also allowed him to purchase the corner building that houses Mississippi Records and a neighboring restaurant. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

She and I are probably the only people in America who moved to Mississippi for the more progressive politics! “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Wayne Lamar Jackson was born on Nov. 24, 1941, in Memphis and grew up across the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark. He got his first trumpet when he was 11. Wayne Jackson, Memphis Horns Trumpeter, Dies at 74 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

I barely made it through the second episode of “Mississippi” and had to bail — not because I didn’t think it was good. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘One Mississippi’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

When he discovers a relative, it's a cranky great-grandmother from Mississippi whom he refers to as "Slavery Days". The Kid by Sapphire ? review 2011-08-19T11:15:01Z

So he came back to Mississippi, this time to try his hand at writing a true-crime book. ‘God’ll Cut You Down,’ a True Crime Book by John Safran 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Dozens of local acts will perform on stages spread along the city's Mississippi River and in its downtown Jackson Square all weekend. Fantasia to headline Super Bowl gospel concert 2013-01-10T12:16:05Z

They were recently bought by the University of Mississippi from a Los Angeles art consultant, whose colleague acquired them in France. Faulkner photos by giant Cartier-Bresson come home 2010-11-24T16:59:00Z

Mr. Allison, who grew up in the blues heartland of the Mississippi Delta, began his career as a jazz pianist in the 1950s before developing his own brand of ironic, blues-flavored music. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Quentin tells Shreve a story from his hometown in Mississippi, about a visit he paid earlier that year to an old woman he knows as Miss Rosa. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z

The bar snack is courtesy of the chef’s mom in Mississippi, where she tosses oyster crackers with dill and oil for a treat that’s all too easy to inhale. Johnny’s Half Shell review: In Adams Morgan, Ann Cashion is really cooking again 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

The drama about white women and their black maids in Civil Rights-era Mississippi polished off three new films based on four-day estimates released by movie studios on Monday, the U.S. "The Help" wins box office, summer hits record 2011-09-05T19:08:05Z

On a recent sunny winter day, I drove 40 miles from New Orleans to a plantation on the southern banks of the Mississippi. From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Film schools analyse his kinetic work in Pink Floyd – The Wall or Mississippi Burning, but it was also in the more delicate, dramatic scenes that he excelled. Gerry Hambling obituary 2013-02-11T18:04:36Z

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in the challenge of the Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks and could lead to Roe v. Antiabortion leader Marjorie Dannenfelser: ‘You can never build human rights on the broken rights of other people’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Small town auditions also are scheduled in Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. American Idol to host small-town tryouts 2012-07-23T20:48:08Z

For instance, the University Press of Mississippi has issued outstanding volumes of literary conversations with dozens of writers, ranging from Isaac Asimov to Eudora Welty. Nora Ephron, David Foster Wallace and others: ‘The Last Interview’ series 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Toward the later panels, the colors deepen, from the peach and lavender view of the Mississippi to the fiery russets and smoky grays of the steel plant and coal mine. Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The central character, Myrtle, is a dim but spirited two-bit showgirl who throws her lot in with an effete young man named Lot, the neurasthenic owner of a broken-down house in the Mississippi Delta. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Even the chinoiserie of the decorative scheme is the outcome of a careful search to find period-correct silk wallpaper: "Though not in Mississippi," O'Connor says. Behind the scenes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012-10-05T14:45:40Z

Five years later, in 1972, after several failed rounds of treatment for alcohol addiction, he took a train to the Washington Avenue bridge in St Paul and threw himself 100 feet into the Mississippi. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

The Mississippi River city relies heavily on tourism revenue from Memphis in May. Memphis music festival, barbecue cooking contest canceled 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Both women play black maids in 1960s Mississippi who dare to go public about the bigotry they’ve endured. ?The Help,? Dujardin win at lively SAG Awards 2012-01-30T09:58:10Z

“Yes, Mississippi now has four times as many esses as it has abortion clinics,” said Oliver. John Oliver Tackles Abortion On 'Last Week Tonight' 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Refusing to pay a bill of more than $25 is a felony in Mississippi Calls to the restaurant by The Associated Press were not returned Wednesday. Eat-and-run charge against Gary Collins dismissed 2011-03-02T18:41:16Z

But not everybody is googling recipes, per se — Illinois, Mississippi, Virginia and Maryland prefer to outsource their turkey-cooking all together, as Popeye’s ready-made Cajun Turkey was the most popular search. The most-googled Thanksgiving recipes by state 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

A double dose of matchmaking magic in Mississippi. They All Said Yes 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Van Ness grew up in Quincy, Ill., a small port city along the Mississippi River, where he was a self-described “little baby queen” unafraid to embrace his femininity. Jonathan Van Ness of ‘Queer Eye’ Comes Out 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Bowers and Dahi’s journey is fascinating: they explore blues in Mississippi, country music in Tennessee and Native drum circles in Oklahoma, accumulating a melting-pot portrait of American music. ‘Anthem’ Review: Flying High 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

At a lake in Starkville, Mississippi, they were confronted by a local campground manager who was anything but welcoming. Mississippi racist campground debacle: We need to address the roots of white Americans' black fear 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Beyond Alaska and Mississippi, the other states in the top ten with respect to this metric are Hawaii, Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky, Vermont, and Connecticut. Which U.S. State Performs Best in the New Yorker Caption Contest? 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Mississippi Delta was the birthplace of the segregationist movement, something I didn't know then, even though I was educated in two different segregationist schools. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

As the years passed, Mr. Maysles worked, often with co-directors, on a wide range of subjects, including the Getty Museum, Gypsy music, Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue and poverty in the Mississippi Delta. Albert Maysles, Pioneering Documentarian, Dies at 88 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

In this new story, incidents from Mississippi’s tortured racial legacy impinge on the present, threatening to destroy Penn and his family. ‘The Bone Tree,’ by Greg Iles: Laced with menace, betrayal and twists 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Published this week by Alfred A. Knopf, "Twelve Tribes" tells of a teenager's journey from Mississippi to Philadelphia in the 1920s and the large family she ends up raising. Winfrey picks Mathis' debut novel for book club 2012-12-05T15:04:24Z

You’ve got just a few more weeks to see this intriguing exhibition of work collected by the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the largest black-owned insurance companies west of the Mississippi. Datebook: Japanese tattoos, kimono and an African American collection 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The octet is set to release its forthcoming album Jekyll + Hyde on April 24, just five days prior to kicking off its North American run at the BancorpSouth Arena in Mississippi on April 29. Zac Brown Band's Jekyll + Hyde Tour Includes Stadium Stops And Big Secondary Market Ticket Prices 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

At the Nissan auto factory in Canton, Mississippi, more than 20 percent of the 4,400 workers are temps, according to the Labor Notes monthly newsletter. A nation of temps 2012-08-22T21:53:00Z

A safety who had played at the University of Mississippi, he’d at one point made the rosters of the New York Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs and several Canadian League teams. ‘I always hated being called a scab’: A new movie revisits the 1987 NFL strike — and Redskins’ triumph 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

When James Baldwin was a guest on “Today,” NBC stations in Mississippi cut to an old movie. Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z

In James Franco’s adaptation of the William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying, the patriarch of a backwoods Mississippi brood insists that they haul his late wife’s corpse to another town for burial. Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s America, Plains and Simple 2013-05-23T19:09:59Z

Louisiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio have enacted bills barring abortion once there’s a detectable fetal heartbeat, as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. John Legend on abortion law boycotts: ‘Money talks’ 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

Finally, there comes the soft Southern accent of David Sansing, Mississippi’s preeminent historian, now professor emeritus of history at the University of Mississippi. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Up until the 30s it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, then they built the Space Needle and now that's all anyone ever talks about – it's become the symbol of the city. Ben Gibbard: 'We've got a superhero in Seattle. I'm not making this up' 2012-11-14T14:57:00Z

The opening installment, on Tuesday, looks into the catastrophic burning and sinking of the steamship Sultana on the Mississippi River in April 1865. PBS’s ‘History Detectives’ Devotes Episodes to Single Cases 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

When Marissa, 6, from Mississippi, received a half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she responded by arguing her case, point by point. Noticed: Kimmel Holiday Prank 2011-12-22T23:00:59Z

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1929, Lewis studied journalism in college and became a professor of English literature at Mississippi State University. Splatter king Herschell Gordon Lewis dies aged 87 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

There are two projects right on the banks of the Mississippi itself: Jennifer Odem’s “Rising Tables” in Crescent Park and, across the river at Algiers Point, Mark Dion’s “Field Station for the Melancholy Marine Biologist.” In Prospect New Orleans, a Curator Guides 73 Artists Toward Higher Ground 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

She grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, but her mother was from Mississippi. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z

“Mississippi Blood” is the capstone to what could legitimately be called a magnum opus. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The least tern numbers in the Mississippi River went from a few hundred in the 1980s to at least 10,000 now, he said. Midwestern bird that was nearly extinct makes a dramatic comeback 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

This law is not what Mississippi is about.” North Carolina and Mississippi See Tourist Backlash After L.G.B.T. Laws 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Baby Doll A Mississippi cotton-gin owner’s teenage bride becomes a pawn in his conflict with a business rival in the West Coast premiere of this stage adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ screenplay for the 1956 film. L.A. theater openings, July 24-31: 'Baby Doll' and more 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

There’s all of that and more, which is why you should consider subscribing to the Mississippi CSR, or community supported record program. Five Mississippi Records you should hear — just bring cash 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

An entertaining tour of a complex Mississippi town built on slavery and defined today by a handful of eccentric characters. New & Noteworthy, From the Rubik’s Cube to the Deep South 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

She sang gospel in church with her sisters growing up and moved to Mississippi after Katrina. In New Orleans, Spreading the Gospel Through Song and Community 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

In the memoir “Men We Reaped,” Ward traces the lives and early deaths of five young Mississippi men, including her brother, Joshua. MacArthur winner Jesmyn Ward writes socially conscious works set in the South 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Though it required federal troops in each instance, black students were admitted to Little Rock High School in Arkansas in 1957 and to the University of Mississippi in 1962. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Skylar Laine, the ebullient young country singer from Mississippi, was voted off Fox’s “American Idol” on Thursday night, leaving a field of four singers as the talent show enters its home stretch. ArtsBeat: No More Country on 'Idol,' but a Soul Powerhouse Emerges 2012-05-04T02:58:23Z

In Mississippi, people are buying record levels of alcohol. Mississippi residents still buying record levels of alcohol, regulatory commission says 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

In the following three months, Border Patrol task forces swept through California, Arizona, Texas, Chicago, Illinois and the Mississippi Delta, unleashing fast raids on farms, restaurants and Mexican majority communities. The largest deportation campaign in US history is no match for Trump’s plan 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

An 1820s cypress armoire “survived the great Mississippi River flood of 1927, leaving a distinct watermark more than halfway up the door panels.” Antiques: Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z

Billie returns to the Mississippi Delta in 2003, after 30 years away, and learns there is more to her father’s death than she knew. The Legacy of Slavery in Two Novels of the American South 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

In 1982 he became writer in residence, and later head of the writing programme, at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, where he remained for 28 years. Barry Hannah obituary 2010-05-20T17:43:00Z

Over the years, murders by mobs in Mississippi alone took more than 500 black lives. Perspective | A black man was lynched in 1932. An author wants the community to finally deal with it. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Destination: the Mississippi River, a physical and psychological line in the American soil, where broadcast-station call letters switch from W to K, and where east becomes west. How I broke our family’s road-trip tradition and ventured west of the Mississippi 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The owner of a salvage company called Speedy and Son, he also had a creative streak, having sung with his brothers on the same stage as Sam Cooke in the Mississippi Delta. With Armory Show, the World Is Catching Up to Carrie Mae Weems 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

He opened 22 others in 12 states west of the Mississippi. Silver Saundors Friedman, Who Helped Found the Improv, Dies at 90 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

If two Mississippi legislators get their way, they'll all be official symbols of the Magnolia State. Will the Bible become the official state book of Mississippi? 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

She spent some of the Obama years as a roving correspondent for Bill Maher, gauging the national mood from Mississippi to midtown Manhattan. Alexandra Pelosi Plunges Into Trump Country 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

She lived quietly for decades, granting no interviews and holding a series of non-writing jobs, including as a counselor in a New York City antipoverty program, before returning to Mississippi. Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

James Earl Green, an aspiring Olympic runner, was supposed to receive the green and yellow coat at his graduation in Mississippi half a century ago. ‘A way we resist’: Quilts honor victims of racial violence 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

The Wilshire Grand Center opened Friday as the tallest building in the city and the highest west of the Mississippi River, if only thanks to its spire. Wilshire Grand Center, the new tallest building in L.A. and a schmoozer in the skyline 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Spencer, 92, a Mississippi native, is the author of nine novels and eight short story collections, including “Starting Over,” which was published earlier this year. ArtsBeat: Elizabeth Spencer Wins Rea Award 2014-04-21T16:12:13Z

That’s especially true of “One Mississippi,” a tender, occasionally funny, often moving entertainment about the grieving process. Review: Have You Heard the One About the Grieving Daughter? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Williams was born in Mississippi but moved to St. Louis as a child. St. Louis ponders Tennessee Williams festival 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

It was around here that the Mississippi started to expand into the land around it. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

"The Help": The film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel, set in 1960s Mississippi, got the jump on things and opened on Wednesday this week. Weekend preview: SLU Blocky Party, Spirit Bike Ride 2011-08-10T20:36:03Z

Mississippi Burning is written, acted and filmed with flair, but its history and politics are as murky as a Mississippi swamp. Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics 2013-04-10T09:34:57Z

In 1955, Ms. Sherwood had a notable supporting role on Broadway in Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” about greedy relatives of a dying Mississippi plantation owner known as Big Daddy. Madeleine Sherwood, actress in ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ dies at 93 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

So I listened to the little voice and got on the plane and went to Mississippi. Alice Walker: 'I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity' 2013-03-09T17:00:01Z

By chance, 2003 had been proclaimed, by Congress and Mississippi’s governor, alike, the Year of the Blues. The Delta gains national recognition 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

“One Mississippi” went online on Friday; the next day “I Love You, Daddy,” a new movie starring and directed by Louis C.K., had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Louis C.K. and Tig Notaro, Sparring on the Battlefield of Art 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Of particular concern to wildlife officials is the spread of Asian carp, which are moving up the Mississippi River system, multiplying in huge numbers and hogging all of the plankton that other fish require. Invasive species for dinner? Restaurant serves up Florida's most reviled breeds 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

About 80 front pages from around the world show how the story unfolded as the storm bore down on Louisiana and Mississippi - and what followed. Newseum in DC retells Katrina story 5 years later 2010-08-24T22:16:00Z

Finally, the French might have a reputation for sophistication, but back in the day its ocean navigators just couldn't put a finger on the map of that Mississippi delta. Readers recommend: innuendo in songs – results 2013-04-25T13:52:46Z

With Ms. Gory’s two sisters and mother helping in the kitchen, Lusco’s became known primarily as a restaurant that served “homebrew,” an important draw in Mississippi, which didn’t repeal Prohibition laws until 1966. A Mississippi Restaurant Has Been Beloved for Decades. But There’s Another Story to Tell. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Some audience members occasionally object — at a recent signed performance of “Byhalia, Mississippi,” a woman asked to be moved away from the interpreters’ spotlight, and an usher cheerfully reseated her. How sign-language interpreters convey the raw emotion of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Williamson was found murdered last month in Mississippi, where she was living at the time, according to local press reports. Caitlyn Jenner: transgender people 'shouldn’t have to take' bullying 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

But Mississippi is not that large of a state. “The person I think I ought to be”: Meet the doctor fighting to save Mississippi’s last abortion clinic 2014-05-06T12:30:00Z

I could imagine a Mississippi where I was content, and I could imagine a California where I was content. John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z

A dip lasting for a few Mississippis on each side is enough to coat the slices and keep them from falling apart, especially if you’re using fresh bread. Restaurant-Worthy French Toast, Without the Wait 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Every time I come upon one, it is a marker of a shared, similar experience,” said Ms. Williams, who recently received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Mississippi. A Mother’s Cookbook Shares More Than Recipes 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The Vampire King of Mississippi rides up in hunting pinks. "True Blood" recap: What happens to wounded children 2010-06-21T13:10:00Z

But if any place could symbolize Ms. Strayed’s path from dark past to gritty redemption, an approximately six-block stretch along Mississippi Avenue in north Portland could very well be it. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Written in blue cursive, Ms. Maramotti’s new tattoo is the single word “Crossroads,” a reference to the Mississippi intersection where, according to legend, the bluesman Robert Johnson sold the devil his soul. The Whitney’s Got a Bag of Its Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

He grew up in Mississippi, for many years shuttling back and forth on a weekly basis between his birthplace, Tupelo, which was integrated, and Clarksdale, which was segregated. Perspective | One of the most powerful works of video art will be available free online this weekend. Here’s why you must watch. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Essentially Ellington celebrates the music of Duke Ellington and other classic jazz composers and has been open to bands west of the Mississippi since 1999. Seattle’s Roosevelt High School Jazz Band members win awards at Essentially Ellington jazz festival 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z

For decades, the state’s unofficial motto was “Thank God for Mississippi,” as in, at least we’re not doing as poorly as Mississippi. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

And as much as Mississippi may be benefiting from the vinyl revival, Isaacson remains proudly independent. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

About the time he was accidentally booked to play a Ku Klux Klan rally in Mississippi, somehow winning over the 30,000 crowd and playing three encores. Solomon Burke: gone but never forgotten 2010-10-11T12:58:00Z

More recently, the satirical newspaper The Onion delivered this funny if decidedly untrue headline: “National Guard Mobilized for Mississippi Class of ’62 Reunion.” Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

The benefit concert will take place on Sunday at Mardi Gras World River City, which overlooks the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Lenny Kravitz among headliners at Gulf Aid benefit 2010-05-10T20:45:00Z

Right now, abortion bans and restrictions like the one in Texas are sweeping the nation, with one 15-week abortion ban from Mississippi currently being considered by the Supreme Court. Texas high school valedictorian gives off-script speech on abortion ban 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

In Memphis, we listened to Blind Mississippi Morris belt out King’s classic in a bar on Beale Street. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Say, Wisconsin along the Mississippi River, or horse country by way of Old Frankfort Pike in Kentucky? Letters: Letters to the Editor 2012-06-01T18:08:19Z

David Banner, from Mississippi, and Killer Mike, from Atlanta, always appeared mismatched to their major labels. 8Ball’s Album ‘Life’s Quest’ Returns to Classic Southern Rap 2012-08-10T14:00:57Z

El Akkad’s struggling heroes deal with cumbersome entities like “the Mississippi River Protection Agency,” “the Department of Energy Security” and, of course, the “Condolence Payment Department of the Joint Compensation Office.” What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The chemicals were only identified in Mississippi after doctors at the medical center analyzed drug samples using a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometer, an hourlong process performed by a machine generally available only at research institutions. Spice: Americans turn to dangerous 'synthetic marijuana' to evade drug tests 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

It was Friday night at Bacchanal, a lusty backyard wine shop, open-air restaurant and performance stage deep in a postindustrial corner of New Orleans’s Bywater neighborhood, a levee away from the muddy Mississippi. We Wanted a Carefree Family Trip. So We Invited a Second Family. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Mississippi’s release schedule serves as a kind of sonic box of chocolates. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Some items, such as the Nobel medal, had been stored at the University of Mississippi. Faulkner heirlooms going to auction in New York 2013-04-10T13:36:08Z

“Southerners, with their eye for distinction, place Mississippi in a class by itself.” Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Down in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where my father was from, it was Mardi Gras. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

He describes a Las Vegas resident as a Mississippi woman, “to underscore the transient nature of the city.” Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Weatherly, a Mississippi native, was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006 and the national Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014. “Midnight Train to Georgia’ songwriter Jim Weatherly dies 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Alabama, with 53 delegates, and Mississippi, with 40 delegates, hold primaries a week before Illinois and will test the candidates’ appeal in the South. Illinois primary's fate rests on Super Tuesday 2012-02-29T22:59:00Z

Two members of Mississippi's House of Representatives have proposed legislation to make it the state book there as well. Tennessee legislator wants the Bible to become official state book 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Q: The kids, the cases you show in the film, are from Oklahoma, Sioux City, Georgia, Mississippi. 'Bully' filmmaker makes a documentary that touches a nerve 2012-04-05T23:37:04Z

Richard Rubin is the author of “The Last of the Doughboys” and “Back Over There,” as well as a book about Mississippi, “Confederacy of Silence.” The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Here was an unruly kid from Mississippi who won over Green Bay fans with his gunslinger style and led the team to a Super Bowl victory. Game Over: These Guys Are No Longer Big Sports Fans 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

But in both formats, he strives for a sound that might be called music from the Delta — both the Mississippi and the Ganges. Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z

“Most of the people did not want to work west of the Mississippi,” Mr. Cedeño said. Black Soldiers Cycled 1,900 Miles Across the U.S. So He Did, Too. 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Other PBS shows marking Black History Month in February include "American Promise," a coming-of-age documentary about two young men, and a documentary about a Mississippi state commission that investigated foes of segregation. PBS' 'American Masters' to profile Alice Walker 2014-01-22T13:59:18Z

A great deal of national attention was directed to the people of this region, which spans from southern New York to Mississippi and Alabama. Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

The Mississippi native fell in love with theater while pursuing a graduate degree in Ireland. Folger Theatre’s Janet Griffin announces her retirement after decades of devotion to Shakespeare 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

When I was growing up, my mother, Bette Parks Sacks, often told me stories about her youth in Mississippi. “A Thousand Midnights”: Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Tell your story in the comments, and I’ll tell you just how, this New Year’s Eve, I found myself lying half naked on the frozen Mississippi river in a Minneapolis dog park. Just in time for Valentine's Day: my failed proposal to get my girlfriend back 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Let’s assume that when the Mississippi gubernatorial candidate denied a female journalist access to his campaign because she is female, he truly saw himself as a bulwark against moral decay. Perspective | The ‘Billy Graham rule’ doesn’t honor your wife. It demeans her — and all women. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

In 1962, he went to Mississippi to help Medgar Evers with voting rights. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

He went in and out of juvenile detention and Mississippi’s notorious “training schools” that, before being reformed, were near-torture chambers for mostly African American and poor white delinquents. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

At 605 feet, it was the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. Seattle arts patron Bagley Wright dies at 87 2011-07-20T06:31:04Z

That’s not to say the stand-up comic didn’t pay her dues: the Mississippi native spent years touring and doing small parts in comedy shows. Tig Notaro Talks Topless Comedy and Standing Up to Ira Glass 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Her televised testimony, to determine whether she and her all-black Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party could be seated at the Democratic National Convention, is in the National Civil Rights Museum. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

“One Mississippi” is so much like everything else that it fails to stand out. Pamela Adlon goes on to ‘Better Things,’ while Tig Notaro revisits the same old thing 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Like Pinkie’s own escape into the blues, “Hong Kong Mississippi” proves what artists can do with modest means but an abundance of passion, pluck and reasons to play. ‘Hong Kong Mississippi’ Review: The Bluesman Next Door 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

The drama bounces from Texas to Mississippi on the cusp of the civil war, effects a shotgun wedding of 60s spaghetti western with 70s "slavesploitation" and douses the magnolia in arterial blood. Jamie Foxx: 'Django Unchained is supposed to make you angry' 2013-01-17T15:45:00Z

The upstate city is where Twain wrote most of his best-known works, from his "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" masterpiece to "Life on the Mississippi," a memoir of his days as a steamboat pilot. Holbrook performs in Mark Twain's beloved NY town 2010-04-22T01:08:00Z

The summer of 1964 in Mississippi was in some ways a failure for the volunteers. Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z

It's no straightforward task to trill the words "Happy Birth-DIE" in a deep Mississippi accent if you're from Yorkshire, but the exceptional youngsters in this production managed it. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: from preview to last night 2012-10-29T17:11:40Z

Hannah-Jones travels to Greenwood and its surrounding areas with an elderly aunt and begins uncovering the reality of the violence and fear that shaped the paths of black families from Mississippi, including her own. Weekend Reading: Illegal Organ Transplants, A Look Back at Freedom Summer, and More 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z

He decided the story should take place in Mississippi because it was the birthplace of the blues, but didn’t set out to write an explicitly blues novel. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

Following the coast of the lake, they reached Green Bay, then continued, via a network of small rivers, to the Mississippi, which they traveled not quite to the Gulf of Mexico. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

A Mississippi native, Mr. Hannah is heir to the bitter humor of Mark Twain, the Roman Catholic gothic of Flannery O’Connor and the South’s outsize tradition of tall tales. Books of The Times: Southern Writer With a Soft Spot for Wild Men Metes Out High-Octane Bonbons 2010-12-28T20:32:04Z

One of the most violent Mississippi chapters of the Ku Klux Klan believed their members were chosen by God to conduct a holy war against the civil rights movement. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

David Scott Gregory, 40, the coroner of largely rural Winston County in eastern Mississippi, went on social media over the weekend to urge residents to buy guns and be willing to use them on burglars. Mississippi coroner advises residents to shoot burglars 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Excuse me, Senator, but for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets of Mississippi. Could Anderson Cooper be the new Oprah? 2010-10-01T15:02:00Z

“I’m looking out my window at the Mississippi River right now,” said Beth Arroyo Utterback, WWOZ’s general manager, speaking by phone from her station’s studio in the heart of the normally raucous French Quarter. Community Radio Fights to Stay Live (and Weird) Despite Coronavirus 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

If “August” were set a few states over — say in Mississippi — Johnna would be African-American, not so much for demographic as for symbolic reasons. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z

For a long time, Mississippi was the forgotten cousin of the southern hip-hop family. Flow like the river: Big K.R.I.T. and Mississippi's flood of hip-hop 2013-03-27T10:43:27Z

We were living on Fork Road in rural Neshoba county, Mississippi. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

She got into character by exploring Louisiana’s swamplands, a great deal of which are largely unchanged since the time when Rachel met Newt across the state line in Mississippi. How Gugu Mbatha-Raw Brings History to Life 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

And the Mississippi Freedom Trail, marked by signs commemorating era-shaping events and personalities — runs through the downtown. Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t hail from the Mississippi Delta or Chicago’s South Side, but from the dusty outpost of Agadez, Niger, in the Sahara. How Bombino Became the Sultan of Shred 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

She then reportedly marched outside, planting herself in the centre of North Mississippi Avenue. Beth Ditto arrested after allegedly kicking barman in the groin 2013-03-19T10:36:20Z

It’s clear that Potter’s Amanda is not completely lost in a reverie of her own youth, even if she exasperatingly boasts of having received 17 gentleman callers on one occasion in her Mississippi Delta home. A “Menagerie” of real feeling 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Though finding dead animals on the beach is not uncommon, I find the quantity of dead animals on the shore in Mississippi alarming. The Gulf Coast may never recover 2013-04-23T20:02:00Z

As it keeps changing in pattern and direction, the dancers seem to become both the Mississippi itself and the whole spirit of community and history. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z

Reed grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, before embarking on a writing career that took her to Washington, D.C., Julia Reed, chronicler of Southern life and food, dies a 59 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

Dusk falls softly in Mississippi, the gloaming comes on and then night falls hard. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Some years, Mississippi has released as many as 40 records. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Nobody in the “One Mississippi” writers’ room thought for a second that this was being teed up at the same time as this huge movement was about to rear its head. Tig Notaro Doesn’t Want to Hear About Disgraced Men Coming Back 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

She was born in Mississippi but her father was stationed in Berlin when she was just a year old, and she has spent her whole life in Germany. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ever since a plucky lad called Huck Finn took his famous river voyage, his exploits along the mighty Mississippi River have been greeted with cheers and jeers. Book-It’s engaging Huck and Jim navigate the n-word | Theater review 2013-04-23T01:30:59Z

And then this sturdy, frightened woman starts running as if her life were in danger, because it’s Mississippi, and it is. | The Help : Spanning Two Southern Worlds, Black and White 2011-08-09T20:24:20Z

Such is the case with “Freedom Summer,” a compressed, complex history of the campaign for voter registration and education in Mississippi led by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. ‘Freedom Summer’ on PBS Looks Back at 1964 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Moore caught the tripod Tuesday in fishing nets while on a morning tour in the Mississippi Sound near Biloxi. Station’s tripod recovered from Sound 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

She paints a picture of the Mississippi of her childhood, describing the North Gulfport neighborhood where she spent her summers and where her brother, Joe, would eventually live with their grandmother. What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Winfrey teared up when accepting her honorary Oscar and described the moment as "unimaginable" given her humble roots growing up in Mississippi. Oprah Winfrey receives "unimaginable" Oscar 2011-11-13T08:07:20Z

State Department worker; a Florida beach beauty; a hockey player; and a Mississippi party girl. TV Picks: 'The Real World' invades New Orleans; 'Ice Age' 2010-06-29T19:58:00Z

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party didn’t succeed by electing candidates — it succeeded showing the limitations of the electoral system. Student activism, reborn 2012-05-21T12:54:00Z

“One Mississippi” is about how you can never really leave — not your home, not your good and bad memories, not even the dead and buried. Review: Have You Heard the One About the Grieving Daughter? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It's set in Mississippi, and it's about a woman who returns to a small Delta town where her father died, and she starts to uncover different things about the circumstances of his death. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

As with the Dingle editions, however, Mr. King refuses to divulge the full lineup for this “musical expedition across the Mississippi.” Ambassador Spurs an Irish-American Cultural Exchange 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Two days later Grant caught his rabbit—taking nearly 30,000 Rebel prisoners—and Independence Day turned to ash on the banks of the Mississippi. ‘Vicksburg’ Review: The Falling Tide of Gray 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

But that is not the case with launching a small boat on the Mississippi. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

Before that, Sledge had been a singing hospital orderly and the vocalist in a weekend bar band known as the Esquire Combos, which occasionally travelled as far afield as Mississippi. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

But Newhart still identifies as a stand-up comic, and he returned to the stage this year for multiple dates west of the Mississippi. Bob Newhart on His Secretly Sick Humor and Turning 90 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The black teen from Chicago was in Mississippi visiting family in 1955 when he was killed - allegedly for whistling at a white woman. Till family calls for meeting with Lil Wayne 2013-05-03T01:31:12Z

His mother, Leonie, is deep into drugs, and his father, Michael, is languishing in the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm. Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

But he stumbled into the hard reality of journalism: Stories are seldom as tidy as they seem from afar, and they often refuse to fit the paradigm, even in Mississippi. 'God'll Cut You Down' misses the mark in Southern murder case 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

A revealing effort is ongoing just across the border from Mississippi, in Arkansas. One in three US births happen by C-section but it varies widely by hospital 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

As a student, she devised ways to commemorate her son in various assignments in an era when Black educators in Mississippi were being fired for discussing the Till case in their classrooms. With the movie ‘Till,’ Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest to educate the world about her son’s lynching march 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The atmospheric setting is a former bed-and-breakfast in the Head of Passes section of southern Louisiana, where three branches of the Mississippi River succumb to the Gulf of Mexico. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

"What does Mississippi look like?" my son's girlfriend asked me over the holidays. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

They went to an elementary school in Mississippi to help encourage kids into a fit and healthy lifestyle. 'American Idol:' Idol Gives Back 2010-04-20T07:39:00Z

So I've been doing a lot of research on Mississippi and the Delta and the civil rights era, and what came before, and what came after. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

His father struggled to eke out a living, working different jobs and signing up for FDR's Works Progress Administration after doing time at Mississippi's Parchman prison for forging a check. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Five hundred million tons of cargo run through the Mississippi River every year, and Austin thinks of himself as a connector, an essential cog in the global farm-to-table wheel. “Water is where I find my peace”: Meet the master river pilot who conquers the Mississippi every day 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

The same way she overcame childhood poverty in rural Mississippi to become the world’s first Black female billionaire: time, effort and a surfeit of natural charisma. More Than You Need to Know About Harry, Meghan and Oprah 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

The 2012 stand-up set that made her a star focused on her cancer diagnosis, and her work since then has included the Amazon series “One Mississippi,” a comedy about grief. Tig Notaro’s ‘Drawn’ Explores Strange New Worlds: Animated Ones 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

His new film for the “American Experience” series recounts the movement to register black voters in Mississippi in 1964 and the catastrophic violence it unleashed. Some Big Names Help Make Summer TV Less Silly 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Why we like him: Shot in the cabins, dusty roads and swamps of the Mississippi Delta, his elegiac film installation Crossroads from 2009 sees Blandy pursue the myths surrounding blues legend Robert Johnson. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z

Blues Travelers Can one rollicking party in Mississippi hill country keep some of America’s oldest music alive? T Magazine ? Travel Issue ? Summer 2012 ? The New York Times 2012-03-22T18:59:28Z

The Mississippi, he explained to me, at the bottom of its course should be thought of as a giant eel that you hold in your hand while it flops around. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The bodies of the mother and older daughter were later found in shallow graves on property belonging to Mayes' mother in the northern Mississippi town of Guntown last weekend. Suspect in U.S. murder and kidnapping dead, two girls alive 2012-05-11T05:02:03Z

The flag was made by an unidentified Mississippi woman in 1863, but little else is known about its history or markings. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

But One Mississippi proves there she is an able enough comic to find material there, still. Here Are the Best Pilots of the Fall Season 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The South loves candy corn: Instacart data showed that Mississippi, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas are the most likely to purchase candy corn compared to the national average. The most popular Halloween candy in every US state, plus top candy cravings 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

And parades were held elsewhere around Louisiana and on the Gulf coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. Costumes, beads give way to ashes in New Orleans 2012-02-22T12:22:13Z

Of 13 states where non-Indian, non-racetrack casinos are operating, nine - Nevada, New Jersey, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and South Dakota - allow casinos to serve free booze. 'Free cocktails?' a dying call at casinos 2010-06-14T23:07:00Z

Recipe: Mississippi Mud Cake Macaroni and Cheese is a must-have at any traditional Southern table. 100 Ways to Cook Southern 2010-10-21T18:01:00Z

Watson’s novel is based on the life of a great-aunt in rural Mississippi in the early 20th century who couldn’t have children and never married. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Mulford has been affiliated with Faction of Fools since 2009, and he will succeed company founder Matthew R. Wilson, who has accepted a tenure-track position on the performance faculty at the University of Mississippi. For bartender, a shot at improvisation after the show at the Studio Theatre 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

One Week on a Mississippi Steamboat Cruise FEW who survived it — and, in truth, we all survived it — will soon forget the Great Yazoo Steamboat Wreck of 2012. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z

I told him I had gone to Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, where the three men — along with other civil rights volunteers — had trained before taking off for Mississippi. Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Having lost the family ancestral home in Mississippi, Blanche shows up in Louisiana “hot, tired, and dirty” and on the run from a shaming and shameful past that she will clearly never escape. Review: Paul Mescal Electrifies in a Revelatory ‘Streetcar’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

The cheap rent beckoned and of course touched off a serious episode of gentrification, leaving us with the squeaky clean Mississippi Avenue. Portland playlist from Justin Ringle 2013-05-24T23:10:32Z

Williams, the banker, and Sidney Harper, a disc jockey at WonderLust, both attended Mississippi College, a private Baptist institution. Inside the hottest gay bar in the most homophobic state in the nation 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Every year motorcyclists gather in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Oklahoma to follow and commemorate the Cherokee’s tragic Trail of Tears. Things Every Southerner Must Do! 2010-07-14T22:49:00Z

Mac’s Fresh Market, with locations in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, shared a photo of the savings circular on its Facebook page and website. Grocery store chain slammed for 'disgusting' political, religious message on weekly mailers 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Half of the newly built Museum of Mississippi History, this was the first civil rights museum anywhere to be sponsored by a state government. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Films of this stripe are legion, though the most irritating example remains “Mississippi Burning,” in which two F.B.I. agents are at the center of an investigation into the murder of civil rights activists. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

Mississippi has recently named the majority-white Royals and the Bandidos – a biker “club” started by a white marine later convicted of murder – among its largest criminal street gangs in annual assessments over the last decade. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

We walked by the Mississippi River and under the Arch. Modern Love: Stepping Out From Behind the E-mail 2013-01-31T21:16:05Z

A county circuit clerk in Mississippi protested that her “final authority is the Bible” and that “the Supreme Court’s decision violates my core values as a Christian.” Put away your Bible, Justice: The new “religious freedom” arguments are neither 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

But conservation efforts are helping other species hang on, such as the Tennessee purple coneflower, the Mississippi gopher frog and the Louisiana black bear. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z

Many of the songs he wrote while living in exile from his native country touched on the facets of life he missed, among them “Yankee Lady,” “Mississippi You’re on My Mind” and “Talk Memphis.” Jesse Winchester, a songwriter’s songwriter 2014-04-15T17:43:59Z

Sometimes the Great River Road ran within a stone’s throw of the Mississippi. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

One last thing — you were born in Chicago and lived in Mississippi for a while, but most of your success came when you were in Atlanta. Q & A with Soulja Boy, who makes first Seattle appearance Friday | Concert preview 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

On April Fools’ Day, a steam-driven ship of fools floats down the Mississippi. Ahab’s White Whale and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The Hattiesburg American reported Danton moved to Petal, Mississippi, in the 1990s because he enjoyed the slower-paced lifestyle. Danton, who taught ballet until late in life, dies at 102 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

As Mark Twain, sage of the Mississippi, once said, you must not dream your life but live your dream. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z

As of July 16 there were no statewide restrictions in Mississippi. Thinking of Traveling in the U.S.? These States Have Travel Restrictions 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

At a rally the other day in Mississippi, the president lampooned Dr. Blasey to big cheers. In ’80s Comedies, Boys Had It Made. Girls Were the Joke. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

In this week’s column, the Bagger goes deep on “The Help,” the hit about the relationships between white women and their black maids in 1960s Mississippi. Carpetbagger Blog: Mississippi Memories and 'The Help' 2011-12-08T14:38:23Z

Trace the route of the Mississippi River down from Minneapolis and along the Wisconsin-Iowa border. Where the Produce Includes Pepperoni: The Pizza Farm 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Menu items include bacon-wrapped meatloaf, creole jambalaya, Carolina shrimp and grits, Texas chicken fried steak, fresh Mississippi catfish, fried chicken and biscuits plus barbecue dishes freshly prepared each day. Southern Comfort liqueur opens restaurant at Tennessee resort 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

A convict is unexpectedly swept out of captivity by the Mississippi flood of 1927. Steve Inskeep Is Drawn to Books With Nuanced Female Characters 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

It's set in the 1970s, in the small town of Whytesburg, Mississippi, and follows the discovery of the corpse of a 16-year-old girl who disappeared 20 years earlier. The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z

The film is the feature writing and directing debut of Miles Doleac, who teaches Latin at the University of Southern Mississippi. ‘The Historian’ Stars Miles Doleac in a Higher-Ed Drama 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

It’s the first time in a while that many members of the Mississippi tea party remember feeling excited. In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth

Medical examiner Steven Hayne and his friend dentist Michael West, the authors write, offered sloppy evidence and dubious testimony that helped prosecutors in Mississippi get the convictions they sought. ‘The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist’ Review: Justice Miscarried 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

That energy pervades “One Mississippi,” which shows Tig as an introverted radio host beloved in her small Mississippi hometown of Bayou Saint Lucille, brought back home when an accident leaves her mother on life support. The half-hour heartbreak: Amazon’s new comedies find laughs in painful places 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The accident occurred near Natchez, Mississippi, where the author lives. Greg Iles to write more Penn Cage thrillers 2013-06-11T16:10:37Z

There was a real outcry after “One Mississippi” was canceled. Tig Notaro Doesn’t Want to Hear About Disgraced Men Coming Back 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

The sirens screamed every few days, in Mississippi, Alabama, and beyond. When the Winds Died Down 2011-07-18T15:50:05.740Z

The second Benji was Higgins' daughter, the third was a distant relative and the fourth was adopted from the Humane Society of South Mississippi. The search is on for a mutt who will become Benji 2012-06-19T19:42:12Z

Saunt’s book traces the expulsion of 80,000 Native Americans over the course of the 1830s, from their homes in the eastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi River. ‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Adams, now 64, was born in Mississippi but became closely associated with Alaska, where he spent nearly four decades. Emerald City Music will present premiere of John Luther Adams work 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

In Mississippi in 1947, two Black teenagers asked for fried chicken and watermelon before they went to the electric chair. Julie Green, Artist Who Memorialized Inmates’ Last Suppers, Dies at 60 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

When the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened its doors on Dec. 9, 2017, it astonished. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

A “pig law” in Mississippi assured you of five years as a prison laborer if you stole a farm animal worth more than $10. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z

In popular legend, Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at a Mississippi Delta crossroads in return for an extraordinary ability to sing and play the blues. Pa. merchant finds rare Robert Johnson record 2012-11-17T01:31:03Z

But she never did meet again the playful, handsome boy from Mississippi – although she believes she got a Christmas card. Elvis's mystery blonde in classic 1950s photograph The Kiss identified 2011-08-08T19:04:20Z

“The Sound and the Fury”, published in 1929 when the then 32-year-old author was poor and unknown, uses a kaleidoscope of narrators to chronicle the decline of a genteel Mississippi family. Signifying something 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

In the film he and Call as Jack and Louis carry their mother's coffin for miles into Mississippi, through thick forest and along a deep river to what they've decided is her final resting place. Two Gates of Sleep: hitting the snooze button with Brady Corbet 2010-05-25T14:48:00Z

And Spike capped off his day with a quick, cool swim in the Mississippi. The Daily Spike: Spike goes off to 'college' less than a month, so it's time to make every day count 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

The dealers did not plan for the simultaneous offerings of the desks, which a Mississippi dealer had found decades ago. Antiques: At Antiquarian Book Fair, Photos of Obama Ancestors 2012-04-05T22:12:59Z

The region stretches from New York to northern Mississippi, but its cultural identity, as Kingsolver pointed out, is most identified with a handful of states. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

I also love the flavors and textures of the Cornmeal-Crusted Fish with Green Tomatoes with Mississippi Comeback Sauce and the comforting Korean flavors in Marry Me Chicken Soup. What is "southern" food? Dale Gray takes readers from South Africa to South Korea for the answer 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

The cheapest Big Macs are predominantly sold in the deep south states, namely Mississippi, where a single burger costs $3.91. Here’s where you can find the priciest — and cheapest — Big Macs in the world 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

With his crew cut and plaid shirt sleeves rolled up to his biceps, he could have been cast as Klan Man No. 1 in “Mississippi Burning.” Wendell Pierce: The First Time My Dad Gave Me ‘The Talk’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a 2016 case that became an argument about Native sovereignty. Explore Frye Art Museum’s intriguing new exhibit through these 5 works 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Her New York firm’s projects include natural breakwaters for the southern shore of Staten Island; a 125-mile greenway along metropolitan Atlanta’s Chattahoochee River; and a Mississippi River park in Memphis. Delivering a connection with nature to Amazon’s HQ2, in the form of a 2.5-acre public garden 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

“They are such a vital part of our economy, not only with the restaurant jobs, but the supply chain,” said Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, an early champion of the Restaurants Act. How Small Restaurants Leveraged Their Pain to Win Stimulus Money 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

I got back from the Dinah on Tuesday morning; the same day Mississippi’s governor signed legislation making discrimination against gay couples legal. 20,000 lesbians in the desert: welcome to the Dinah, a world without men 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson read a devastating story — based on historical fact — about a black family being driven off their Mississippi farm one night by a group of white men on horseback. Fundraiser put on highway to the danger zone

Almost as soon as he crossed from Mississippi into Alabama, he said he noticed there was "quite a bit of poverty." New York man biking across US 'literally feels' Alabama's rich history: 'You get the shivers' 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

The Mississippi, that sprawling giant, courses along a storied route through our heartland and our history. Visit the South's Arch Country 2011-05-18T13:20:07.640Z

Corlett says she was similarly “adopted” by a couple while in Mississippi. I was determined to visit all 50 states. I soon discovered I wasn’t alone. 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The “chrysanthemum throne” is celebrated with that flower as a dense cluster of Mississippi River pearls from both Tiffany & Co. and from the French jeweler Vever. Style: From 'Japonisme,' Delicate Jewelry That Captures Culture's Essence 2011-05-16T13:01:09Z

The balcony of the Lorraine Motel, Dealey Plaza, the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, and a forsaken driveway in Mississippi occupy a profane corner in the minds of a generation of Americans. Flash Points 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

As is well known, they take their name from Theodore Roosevelt, who refused to shoot a baby bear on a Mississippi hunting trip in 1902. Ted: the bear necessities of our love affair with the cuddly toy 2012-08-06T14:02:07Z

One slide show focuses on Lomax, the legendary folklorist whose collection of field recordings spans more than a half century and stretches from chain gangs in Mississippi to fishermen in Italy. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

As we all know there's a huge Vietnamese-American enclave in New Orleans and the South in general, because we all sort of relocated in that area, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi. Justin Chon on his heartbreaking "Blue Bayou": "I wanted to do justice to the adoptee community" 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

The actress had been travelling from Biloxi, Mississippi, to New Orleans to appear on television when her car hit a trailer head-on. Siren, satanist or comic genius? The myths of Jayne Mansfield 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

It nagged me that the years were passing and I was spending them on the wrong side of the Mississippi. Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey have never been more relevant in the drought-stricken West 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The voices of Mississippi echo in these hours. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

There are lines between blues and Mississippi hip-hop, but they're meandering, and very thin. Flow like the river: Big K.R.I.T. and Mississippi's flood of hip-hop 2013-03-27T10:43:27Z

A native of Memphis, Mr. Moss has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Kansas and a law degree from the Mississippi College School of Law. It Was One Sign After Another 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Legislators adopted a state song that year setting new words to his campaign music: “Go, Mississippi, keep rolling along. Go, Mississippi, you cannot go wrong.” ‘One Mississippi’ replaces state song that had racist roots 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

A native of Mississippi, Mr. Perkins has loved birds since the age of 3, when his parents gave him his first parakeet. Day 23: On Christmas Day, No Rest for the Weary. (Or the Guy Who Feeds the Penguins.) 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

As he cycled through Louisiana, Barnes spent a lot of time riding along the Mississippi River and crossed into Mississippi for about 40 miles, he said. New York man bicycling to all 50 states meets long-lost half-sister in Louisiana: 'Can’t make this stuff up' 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Then The Moment met the rest of Mississippi. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

By the time he returned home in 2003, he had claimed the title of Central Mississippi regional captain. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Louisiana and Mississippi both considered doing so in recent years, but the efforts were unsuccessful -- the sponsor of the Louisiana bill withdrew it, and the Mississippi bill never made it out of committee. Tennessee Senate kills proposal to make the Bible official state book 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Graduate Hotels, the chain of affordable and stylish hotels located in towns with large universities, is opening its fifth property today, the Graduate Oxford in Oxford, Miss., home to the University of Mississippi. Hotel and Tour News: Musical Resort Packages in Florida and Cape Town 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Here’s a sample of how grating Mr. Safran can sound: “Um, well, thank you to the people of Mississippi and, um, congratulations to all the, er, participants in the Spirit of America Day awards.” ‘God’ll Cut You Down,’ a True Crime Book by John Safran 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

They start by heading south to investigate a recent wolf attack at a Mississippi prison. TV listings: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

An alcoholic and a curmudgeon with a high school education from rural Mississippi who was chosen for some reason by the Divine to impart Truth to mankind. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

She was long interested in literature and in social justice, whether studying English at Hunter College and at Smith College or volunteering to register Black voters in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964. Florence Howe, co-founder of Feminist Press, dead at 91 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

The 52-year-old Mississippi native grew up on a farm and had no drama experience outside of performing in Easter and Christmas plays at church. Aunjanue Ellis Leans Into a Supporting Role and Turns It Into a Talker 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Skeleton after skeleton surfaces from the dark waters of the Mississippi - and hits the audience right where it hurts. Murk of the Mississippi envelops theatre-goers in Leeds 2012-11-07T21:03:00Z

A civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate Southern schools in the 1960s and was pushed out of his University of Mississippi teaching job amid uproar over his work on behalf of Black clients. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Heard, who is 61 and lives in Mississippi, keeps an apartment on Capitol Hill, not far from his doppelganger, Breitbart chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon. He looks just like Steve Bannon, moves in the same circles. What is that like? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Roberts grew up with bassist Todd Harrell and lead singer Brad Arnold in Mississippi. 3 Doors Down guitarist Matt Roberts leaves band 2012-05-23T23:31:11Z

Every state has enacted pro-hemp legislation but four: Idaho, South Dakota, Mississippi, and New Hampshire. For young farmers, hemp is a "gateway crop" 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

The author was thus, she writes, “a child of miscegenation, an interracial marriage still illegal in Mississippi and in as many as 20 other states.” ‘Memorial Drive’ Powerfully Recalls a Southern Childhood and a Mother’s Murder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

This debut novel centers on a romance between two enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah, in Civil War-era Mississippi. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Its report advocated the “hydrologic separation” of the Mississippi and Great Lakes ecosystems. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

It’s a tiny shop packed with perfection and located on the grounds of Waverley Plantation Mansion, one of the most significant historic homes in Mississippi. A Shopper's Guide to Antique Chests 2012-10-29T05:20:13.863Z

Raspberry, who grew up in segregated Mississippi, wrote an opinion column for the Post for nearly 40 years. Pulitzer-winning columnist William Raspberry dies 2012-07-17T17:24:13Z

Unlike the majority of his work, Sessums competed for the chance to erect the monument in honor of Mississippi soldiers at the Shiloh National Military Park. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Historical markers installed in Mississippi that designate significant locations in his murder have been repeatedly vandalized. ‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the hands of a less meticulous scholar, the notion that fugitive slaves invoked Siete Partidas when they arrived in New Spain after fleeing the horrors of Louisiana or Mississippi could come across as matter-of-fact. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

An earlier version of this story incorrectly spelled the name of the Mississippi Sheiks. Eric Clapton sued by musician's estate over iconic song 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Not so long ago, as I can testify, the appearance of a black face on a network program was a signal in Mississippi for the set to go dark. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The new Wilshire Grand Center opened on Friday — and it is now the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Essential Arts & Culture: Visceral border art, a 'guileless' Wilshire Grand, must-see African sculpture 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

He was also a successful politician, serving as Missouri’s state treasurer during the Civil War, but mainly he was the first important American artist to spend most of his life west of the Mississippi. Review: George Caleb Bingham’s Serene Images of Rivers and Frontier Life, at the Met 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The civil liberties union has also filed open records requests in Tennessee and Montana over book bans, and a warning letter in Mississippi against what it described as the “unconstitutionality of public library book bans.” Activism grows nationwide in response to school book bans 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

One of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the United States mainland weakened into a tropical storm overnight as it pushed inland over Mississippi with heavy rain and shrieking winds, its danger not over. Hurricane Ida leaves New Orleans, other parts of Louisiana without power 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hughes on April 12 introduced the Mississippi Economic Tourism and Recovery Act to the House, which would prevent businesses and individuals from discriminating against the L.G.B.T. community. North Carolina and Mississippi See Tourist Backlash After L.G.B.T. Laws 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

“I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi,” she said, her Southern drawl peeking beneath her syllables like a branch under kudzu. Up Close : Grace Hightower De Niro: The TriBeCa-Rwanda Connection 2013-07-17T18:59:15Z

Luckett had lived in Mississippi since he was six weeks old, and considered his birth in Fort Worth, Texas, to be just a quirk before his family returned to the place where they were rooted. Mississippi blues promoter and raconteur Bill Luckett dies 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

One city in Mississippi is willing to pay you $6,000 to move there. Mississippi city will pay you $6G to move there 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

This could also extend to the lower Mississippi River Basin states. Dairy, drought and the drying of the American West 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

“The Mississippi looks as if it had been put here to teach the God-fearing Midwest a lesson about stubborn and unregenerate nature,” he writes. Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z

It would not be repeated the next night, as Princeton fell to Mississippi State, 63-41, in one of the least depressing losses in school history. Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z

Bert's stage patter - all about jamming in front yards with nonagenarian blues legends from Mississippi and the like - struck me as the sort of thing missing from the other performances. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Southern Sweden, Singing the Blues and Medieval Jousting 2012-07-17T19:12:31Z

And then, like an angel of innocence, there is a black girl with barrettes, squinting a bit under a Mississippi sun. Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

As is the case in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and elsewhere in the country, these barriers to access will hit low-income people, people of color and people living in rural areas the hardest. Things are about to go from bad to worse in Oklahoma: Governor signs off on Texas-style abortion restrictions 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Have you ever heard of Hattiesburg, Mississippi?” it began. Jim Crow Told Through the Lives, Black and White, of One Mississippi Town 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s, the rooms were adapted into a Mississippi riverboat themed restaurant inspired by Mark Twain’s writings. Vanished Murals From the Empire State Building Rediscovered 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

A Waffle House patron in Mississippi was confronted by police officers for bringing a live snake into the restaurant. Waffle House customer confronted by police officers for bringing live snake into restaurant 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

"Cat," first seen in New York in 1955, tells the tale of one family's machinations to control some prime Mississippi Delta farmland. Review: A noisy 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' distracts 2013-01-18T01:32:11Z

Grace in Mississippi: First of all, never use an abrasive cleanser. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Will new stainless steel sink become dull as dishwater? 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

In the case of Faulkner, Youd traveled to the author’s home in Mississippi. Why artist Tim Youd is spending his nights on Hollywood Boulevard retyping John Rechy's hustling novel 'City of Night' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The groom graduated from the University of Mississippi. Morgan Cummings, O’Neal Gray 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

We hadn’t come to the Mississippi to prove or conquer anything. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

There isn't all that much tension or heat around the budding romance between Sam and Mississippi, although both Radnor and Mara are easy on the eyes. "Happythankyoumoreplease": "How I Met Your Mother" star's likable film debut 2011-03-04T18:26:00Z

Meanwhile, after traveling in Europe and living in Tennessee and Oxford, Mississippi, she returned to Carrollton in 1956 and found that no one was interested in her books. Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

In Collinsville, Ill., just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, seven firefighters were pooling their money for a $14 ticket that offered seven plays. Powerball workplace pools fun, but can turn sour 2013-05-18T03:30:33Z

And in 2004, when 11 states passed referendums barring same-sex marriages, Mississippi voted the most strongly against the unions, at 86 percent. U.S. district judge strikes down Mississippi’s ‘religious freedom’ law 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

And a debut novel imagines a romance between two enslaved men in Civil War-era Mississippi. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

We got together in Mississippi, a book nobody wanted to publish, a director nobody wanted to direct, and here we are. Carpetbagger Blog: Trying to Decide if 'The Help' Is Drama or Comedy 2011-12-15T20:25:55Z

What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned on the road?Never eat Mexican food east of Mississippi or north of Dallas. Dishing with Lyle Lovett 2012-02-21T19:20:03.740Z

The museum will display the original coffin of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old savagely killed in Mississippi in 1955; Ku Klux Klan hoods; and a piece of rope used in a lynching. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly tells The Associated Press that rates would rise by less than $1 a month in January for a typical residential customer, after a fuel surcharge expires in December. APNewsBreak: Entergy seeks new rate plan in Miss. 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

In 2014, he published “Natchez Burning,” an 800-page doorstop that was followed by two volumes of comparable size: “The Bone Tree” and “Mississippi Blood.” Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Twenty percent of the state is on assistance, topping notoriously low-income states like Mississippi. My life on food stamps: I felt ashamed buying olive oil 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Whatever the true history, tamale production throughout the Mississippi Delta remains high. Tamales, Catfish and Meringue Pie: Delicacies of the Mississippi Delta 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Along with the North Mississippi Allstars, the Band of Joy performs at 8 p.m. Robert Plant rocks the Paramount 2011-04-15T00:33:09Z

At first, both girls were obsessed with ballet – at one point, Allison joined a troupe of Christian ballet dancers in Jackson, Mississippi, that was, in her words, "a little culty". The Pierces: 'We're the indie Abba' 2011-02-20T00:05:23Z

It was sometime during our third day on the Mississippi River, or was it the fourth day, or the second or fifth? 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

Participants were routinely arrested, with many landing in the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a.k.a. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Why should California, Wyoming or Utah be paying the price for Houston, Mississippi or Alabama failing to enforce the National Flood Insurance Program? ” he said. Rethinking the "infrastructure" discussion amid a blitz of hurricanes 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Moreover, Hilpert said, “it will bring additional visibility to the Mississippi Delta, particularly with cultural tourism.” The Delta gains national recognition 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

However, One Mississippi lacks the ambiguity that would make it a truly great show. One Mississippi: Tig Notaro bares her scars in intensely dark comedy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mississippi was on the verge of becoming the first state in the nation without a single abortion clinic since Roe v. Mississippi’s last abortion clinic to remain open — thanks in part to a Reagan appointee 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

Dark comedy One Mississippi stars comedian Tig Notaro in a story loosely based on her life, her return to her childhood home in Mississippi and the death of her mother. Amazon's Fall Pilots Feature Projects From Louis C.K. and Shaq 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Parker, whose film credits include "Midnight Express", "Mississippi Burning" and "Evita", follows in the footsteps of Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, and Laurence Olivier in receiving the honor. Filmmaker Alan Parker to receive top British film accolade 2013-01-23T15:06:53Z

We're hopeful it goes well for folks in Mississippi who are interested. Christie's to auction rare Faulkner collection 2010-06-18T17:27:00Z

Neither West or his wife, Kim Kardashian West, were present at the meeting of the Mississippi Board of Election Commissioners Tuesday. Kanye West makes presidential ballot in Mississippi 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

So he posted the contacts for his new label, Mississippi Records, on the R.E.M. website. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Of course, those likely to be seriously offended by the show probably wrote off New York as Sodom and Gomorrah long ago and are too busy picketing abortion clinics in Mississippi to bother with Broadway. What Mitt Romney could learn from Broadway's Book of Mormon 2012-09-25T15:30:21Z

Collins, 72, is married to Mary Anne Mobley, a former Miss America from Brandon, Mississippi, and they spend some of their time in the state. Dine-and-dash accusation against actor Gary Collins dismissed 2011-03-02T21:11:09Z

In his studio next door, he was recording the last of the real-deal Mississippi bluesmen, who had lived the rough, violent lives they sang about. Heartbreak specialists: how Mississippi bluesmen got me through my divorce 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

On Jan. 2, employees at the Wet Seal store in Gulfport, Mississippi received a large package in the mail. Wet Seal To Employees: Surprise! You're Out of a Job 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Mississippi Blood” addresses that question by way of Tom Cage’s murder trial, a wildly dramatic affair worthy of Scott Turow. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Sen. Roger Wicker and Bill Luckett, an attorney and blues club owner who once ran for Mississippi governor as a Democrat. Mississippi group honors fictional man in ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The delight and frustration of “One Mississippi” are one and the same, in that it runs swiftly and with meaning through a seasonal arc that launches and sticks its landing within six episodes. Amazon's "One Mississippi" exudes calm confidence in its second season 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

As is her habit, Carolyn Dry, who lives in Winona, a modestly sized Minnesota city along the Mississippi River, sat down Thursday evening to watch the newest iteration of “Project Runway.” Perspective | Let’s talk about ‘Project Runway’ stars using ‘old lady’ to describe unflattering clothes 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

His preferred park is an expansive run adjacent to a horse farm in Franklin, the town outside Nashville where Williams and her mother settled after they fled her mother’s second husband in Mississippi. How Hayley Williams Saved Herself (and, BTW, Paramore) 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

During these years she was active in civil rights efforts in Mississippi, working with the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Anne Moody, Author of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi,’ Dies at 74 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The sociologist Joyce Ladner, a Tougaloo undergraduate in the 1960s, said that the school became one of the only places in Mississippi where Modern Art could be seen and appreciated. A Tribute to Black Artists Could Signal a Change for Museums 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

Their teacher is also using the new Mississippi Blues Trail Curriculum to help the children absorb information in unexpected ways. Mississippi embraces its blues in schools 2013-12-27T03:27:30Z

It's in Nick's crumbling Mississippi River hometown that he returns home one afternoon to find the front door swinging open, signs of a struggle in the living room, and no trace of Amy. Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny 2013-05-01T18:14:56Z

On stage, a fan whirred monotonously round, doing little to dispel the thick soup of the Mississippi delta air, or the sense of frustration at the forefront of everything. Murk of the Mississippi envelops theatre-goers in Leeds 2012-11-07T21:03:00Z

She graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg and received a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Marishka Brown, David Hewitt 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

That “Home Town” is set in Mississippi, the nation’s poorest state, perennially occupying the cellar of almost every quality-of-life list, seems no accident. Can HGTV make house-renovators Ben and Erin the new Chip and Joanna? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Additional site-specific works include a multimedia installation for the Riverfront Streetcar Line by Derrick Adams, and a piece by Mark Dion about the ecology of the Mississippi River and its delta. Kara Walker Plans a Public Art Project for New Orleans 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

He was nearly the same age as Emmett Till would be if he hadn’t been bludgeoned to death and dumped in a Mississippi river at age fourteen for talking to a white woman. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

They love passing through different cities and seeing them decked out in lights, and stopping to try local specialties, like gumbo in Louisiana or gulf shrimp in Mississippi. A Holiday Feast, Cooked in the Cab of a Truck 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

After Hurricane Katrina, another study found that, among women in Mississippi who were displaced from their homes, domestic violence rates increased dramatically. The mental health impact of major disasters like Harvey and Irma 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

He grew up in a small town in rural Mississippi. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

This novel centers on two enslaved boys and their blossoming romance, which begets betrayal and suffering on an antebellum plantation in Mississippi. New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Soth is best known for his large-scale American projects Sleeping by the Mississippi and Niagara, which took him across central America, from Iowa and Illinois to Missouri and Kentucky. The genius behind Alec Soth's Brighton biennial success 2010-09-19T21:00:00Z

The band, which formed in the `90s in Mississippi, is known for such hits as "Away from the Sun" and "Kryptonite." 3 Doors Down cancels 4 shows following fatal crash 2013-04-22T20:31:16Z

Wells, who was born a slave in 1862 in Mississippi, was a 30-year-old newspaper editor in Memphis, Tennessee, when she began her campaign lynching. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

When news broke that letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi Senator tested positive for ricin, concerned citizens may have wondered, “What’s ricin?” Ricin Attack Sadly Familiar to Fans of Breaking Bad 2013-04-17T19:00:33Z

Scott Stewart, the official who is leading Mississippi’s effort to eliminate the constitutional protection for abortion rights nationwide, once wanted to tamp down the partisan rancor around the issue. Scott Stewart wasn’t well known in the antiabortion world. Now he’s leading the charge to overturn Roe at the Supreme Court. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

She flew to Mississippi to play civil rights catalyst Mamie Till-Mobley — whose son Emmett Till was brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South — in the ABC limited series “Women of the Movement.” AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Adrienne Warren, Broadway baby 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Perry Howard, a black attorney from Mississippi, asked, according to a New York Times story from the time. Theodore Roosevelt whipped up a frenzy of populism in 1912. We're still living with the consequences. 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

A native of Mississippi who now lives in North Carolina, Spencer has published nine novels and eight story collections. Elizabeth Spencer wins $30,000 short story prize 2014-04-21T17:59:26Z

And the cave, discovered in 1810, is the second largest in the U.S. east of the Mississippi, winding away under the hills of middle Tennessee for more than 32 miles. New PBS series plums the depths of bluegrass 2011-11-02T10:24:08Z

It was during an original, riff-driven, North Mississippi kind of electric blues called Black Sun, and she was performing in a band called Black Sun. Music Review: Electric Blues From Cassandra Wilson and Black Sun 2014-03-19T19:00:31Z

He spoke with Salon about the legal challenge and the increasingly bleak reproductive health landscape in Mississippi and elsewhere in the South. “The person I think I ought to be”: Meet the doctor fighting to save Mississippi’s last abortion clinic 2014-05-06T12:30:00Z

The Mississippi natives Faith Hill and Charlie Worsham spoke out in favor of removing Confederate iconography from the Mississippi state flag. Country Music Struggles to Meet the Moment. Again. 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Some versions name that corner as U.S. highways 49 and 61 in the Mississippi Delta, some 200 miles north of Copiah County. Blues legend Johnson could get highway honor 2012-02-23T23:01:11Z

After Brown performed in Mississippi, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “This is black power, baby.” ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

In Jeff Nichols' "Mud," which screened Saturday as the festival's final competition entry, he is a story-spinning fugitive holed up on an island in the Mississippi who is befriended by two local boys. Matthew McConaughey pulls of Cannes double header 2012-05-26T11:29:13Z

"The Help" is based on relationships between white families in Mississippi and the black women who worked for them in the 1960s. Author's letter is focal point in 'The Help' suit 2011-08-23T13:48:08Z

Growing up in Mississippi and Louisiana, Slater had managed to escape the deep south without any hint of a southern accent. Life and death in the US Marines 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Curiously, most of us east of the Mississippi would love to taste an Inn and Out Burger to see if it lives up to its reputation. The Best Comes in a Bun at Salvation Burger and Spotted Pig 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Born in Mississippi in 1951, Mr. Jamison sang with the bands Target and Cobra before joining Survivor. Jimi Jamison, Singer for Survivor, Dies at 63 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

“Displaced” is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy in Jackson, Mississippi, in the late fifties. Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Thomas attended a “mostly white, upper-class, private Christian university” in Mississippi, while living in a poorer, blacker neighbourhood. The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg: ‘Our generation is upending Hollywood’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

“We were starved for capacity,” said Ted Sykes, president of the American Queen Steamboat Company, citing 95 percent occupancy on its present Mississippi paddle-wheeler, the American Queen. More Cruises on the Mississippi 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

On the Mississippi coast, tourism officials said there was no spike in cancellations for the holiday weekend at hotels and casinos. Tropical Storm Lee forms in the Gulf 2011-09-03T01:18:00Z

Martin is an old friend of mine, and a few years back we had held an unofficial competition, photographing together in Memphis and the Mississippi delta – a "shoot-out" as we called it. Photographer John Gossage's best shot 2011-04-13T21:30:01Z

The Help describes the life of a black woman, living in the sleepy town of Jackson, Mississippi. The Help by Kathryn Stockett- review 2013-04-17T11:00:00Z

Laymon describes how his grandmother, born poor and black in Jim Crow Mississippi, was “better than anyone I’d ever known at bending, breaking and building words that weren’t in the dictionary.” In ‘Heavy,’ Kiese Laymon Recalls the Weight of Where He’s Been 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Tunica County used to be one of the poorest places in the United States, but about 20 years ago the local economy started to perk up with the arrival of casinos on the Mississippi River. Mississippi embraces its blues in schools 2013-12-27T03:27:30Z

Ford, currently teaching at the University of Mississippi, will fill a newly created position at Columbia for a professor of humanities and writing. Richard Ford joining Columbia faculty 2011-10-11T20:23:08Z

So far, Virginia, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi and Colorado legislators have done so, while New York's governor has yet to sign off on the state's version. Nevada gambling regulators to weigh new fantasy sports model 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Instead of those “English” novels, I would argue for “Life on the Mississippi.” A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

By the time Stewart, 39, became the solicitor general in Mississippi earlier this year, the state had already filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to take the abortion case. Scott Stewart wasn’t well known in the antiabortion world. Now he’s leading the charge to overturn Roe at the Supreme Court. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Oliver discussed the gubernatorial and legislative elections happening in Kentucky, New Jersey, Virginia and Mississippi. John Oliver just brilliantly made this election a matter of life and death 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Mississippi suffers a “brain drain”—a mass exodus of the state’s young, onto better things. Don’t write off Mississippi: Before you dismiss us as “a garbage state,” listen to the queer Southerners you’re leaving behind 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

“Princeton had more students from Mississippi in the decades before the Civil War than it does today,” Professor Sandweiss said. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

In his narratives, women become “cutie pies” and men do gallant things like swim the Mississippi River to win them back. A night of wholesome nostalgia from R&B’s Leon Bridges 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

For Olive, herself a black woman from Mississippi, the death of Lennon resonated personally. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

The practice is most prevalent in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, but remains legal in 22 states. The Power of the Supreme Court Inside America’s Schools 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

This week Jackson, Mississippi showed that it’s lead levels are spiking. Erin Brockovich sounds a terrifying alarm on Bill Maher about nationwide lead poisoning: “F*cking greed” has sparked crisis 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

An elderly black man dressed in a spacesuit, which appears to be made from tinfoil, shambles up a silent, deserted road in the lush green countryside of Mississippi. Review: Ralph Lemon makes his NW debut with fascinating, moving work 2010-11-19T21:27:00Z

Jafa identifies the source of his unruly streak back in his Mississippi childhood, where, he said, the church was the institution that gathered and protected the community. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The work was based on photographs of the battered corpse of Emmett Till, the teenager who was tortured and murdered by two white men in Mississippi in 1955. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Once he left Mississippi, Barnes headed straight for capital number 30: Montgomery, Alabama. New York man bicycling across US reveals his favorite state so far: ‘Feel at home’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi — a significant event in the civil rights movement — on Oct. National Portrait Gallery sought public’s help in selecting work for its Recognize wall

The levee road ended at the Mississippi River, next to a man fishing and a faded sign indicating that the area used to be the landing point of a ferry. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Tom Lee Park, a green space overlooking the Mississippi, is being renewed by Jeanne Gang, of Studio Gang, with inviting pavilions, plantings and better access for families and older people. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

At no time is this more true than on fall weekends when the University of Mississippi football team is making a home stand. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

It’s the biggest steamboat ever built, people who know about such things swear, and when it’s floating on the Mississippi, one of the biggest rivers ever built, something just feels right about the world. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z

Related: Obama says overturn anti-LGBT laws in North Carolina and Mississippi But Williams isn’t headed for a city. How a tiny city in New York became a beacon for transgender healthcare 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Amid breakneck banjo and fiddle romps such as Mississippi Saturday Night are less expected, reflective pieces such as Ain't It Enough, with its utopian sentiment that "there's a place for us all here". Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back – review 2012-11-18T00:05:56Z

One Mississippi places Notaro’s autobiographical character in sharp relief against characters who deal with grief in loopier manners than she ever would. How Low-Key Comedies Are Owning Fall TV 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen — opened last summer by a former Jersey boy, Josh Pollack — has taken the quest for a decent New York-style bagel west of the Mississippi to heroic heights. What to Do in Denver 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

So they returned to their old Mississippi life. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Set in Mississippi in 1964, “Revolution” blends a fictional coming-of-age story with historical documents from the civil rights era, including leaflets, brochures and newspaper clippings. Shortlists for National Book Awards Announced 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Route 61, the legendary Mississippi River road, to document the influence of black music on white America. Book Talk: Black music, white culture and a legendary U.S. highway 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Accordingly, pursuant to the Mississippi Supreme Court’s ruling this case for depraved heart murder is dismissed without prejudice,” he added. Murder charges dismissed against Mississippi woman on trial for giving birth to a stillborn 2014-04-03T21:44:00Z

Together they produced four shows, “Better Things,” “Baskets,” “One Mississippi” and “The Cops.” FX Investigation of Louis C.K. Finds No Evidence of Workplace Misconduct 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

The small city of Greenwood, Mississippi, at the eastern fringe of the Delta, is home to the historic black neighborhood of Baptist Town. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

When we were in our thirties, despite a decades-long documented history of mental illness, he became the only White person ever executed for killing a Black person in Mississippi, a state notorious for its anti-Blackness. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

But there are other songs — the Mississippi Sheiks song Tom Jones sang on the first album — I don't believe anyone's heard that for years. Hugh Laurie loosens up in continued visit to house of American music 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ward returned to this coastal Mississippi town in 2011 and began working on “Men We Reaped,” a memoir that chronicles the deaths of five young men, including her brother. Past Lingers in Present, and the Sorrows Go On 2013-09-11T20:11:51Z

He acquired Faulkner manuscripts in bulk and memorabilia related to the Eads Bridge, an 1870s engineering marvel that crosses the Mississippi on pneumatic supports. A Collection of Campaign Mementos, Starting With Washington, Goes to Auction 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case about a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks, is before the high court, which currently has a GOP-appointed 6-3 majority. March for Life 2022: Advocates pray for a 'culture of life restored' in America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Tig Notaro took on Louis C.K., her own producer, with a subplot in her amusing mosey of a series, “One Mississippi,” that had obvious echoes of the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him. Comedy Highlights of 2017 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Freeman tells us of the fiery Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote, who fought four duels in his political career and was wounded in three of them. Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

The Mississippi Association of Gang Investigators often points to violent white gangsters to push for tougher enforcement, telling media that 53% of verified gang members in the state are white. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

He also talks of his deep connection with his "teacher," a former sharecropper in Mississippi named Walter Carter, who died recently at 102. Review: Ralph Lemon makes his NW debut with fascinating, moving work 2010-11-19T21:27:00Z

Or the tastiest tamales outside Mexico at Fat Mama's in Natchez, Mississippi. Things Every Southerner Must Do! 2010-07-14T22:49:00Z

Like its predecessors, “Mississippi Blood” uses the inexhaustible subject of race as its central thematic concern. Greg Iles concludes his spectacular Natchez Burning trilogy 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

At least officially, even in the South it was at an end by the turn of the century in Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi.  Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z

Her ice cream was just one of the things she made that many considered the best in her small town of Sharkey, Mississippi. Homemade ice cream courtesy of Grandma Bah, a wild child-turned-wild woman with taste 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

He was honored earlier this week in Kilmichael with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail, which memorializes and markets Mississippi as the birthplace of the blues. B.B. King does intimate show in Miss. 'homecoming' 2012-08-23T19:40:13Z

Much is made of the fact that Grisham, whose father was a construction worker and cotton farmer, went to law school at Ole Miss and served from 1983-90 in the Mississippi House of Representatives. Plot Twist! John Grisham’s New Thriller Is Positively Lawyerless 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

In the mornings, Mom sat at one end of the narrow balcony, facing Royal Street, and I at the other, facing the Mississippi. Who Stays Gone, and Who Can Afford to Return 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

They became prose poems, where he’s picturing her listening to the sound of trees and canoeing down the Mississippi. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Reading With Patrick’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Mississippi told the court in its brief that “Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong. The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition.” Scott Stewart wasn’t well known in the antiabortion world. Now he’s leading the charge to overturn Roe at the Supreme Court. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

It is a region as inextricable from Hardy as the Mississippi of William Faulkner or V. S. Naipaul’s Trinidad. On England’s Coast, Thomas Hardy Made His World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

"Oprah's journey from her grandmother's Mississippi farm to becoming one of the world's most admired women is one of the great American success stories," Harvard President Drew Faust said in announcing her selection. Oprah Winfrey to deliver commencement address at Harvard 2013-03-04T14:57:52Z

That ended in April 1966, immediately after he appeared in “Mississippi: A Self-Portrait,” an NBC News documentary about racism in the Delta. A Mississippi Restaurant Has Been Beloved for Decades. But There’s Another Story to Tell. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ryan said the number she will be performing, from a cycle of songs that Mr. Almond wrote during his travels in Wyoming, Kansas and Mississippi, is called “All I Ever Wanted.” ArtsBeat: After 'Office' Hours, Amy Ryan Plans a Concert Performance 2011-02-03T17:29:38Z

The biggest increase occurred in states along the Mississippi River. Tornadoes are spinning east, a new study shows 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Sitting in this car and getting the sense, you know, just of how trapped he was. He was just a poor mama’s boy from Mississippi.” Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

He said even though everything is historically accurate, the actual men are fictional and by doing this, the piece does not reflect any individual, it reflects Mississippi Confederate soldiers as a whole. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

But flooding affects wildlife as well as people, and the sad sight of those eggs going under is one of many striking bits of footage in a three-part special examining nonhuman life on the Mississippi. | 'Wild Mississippi': On Nat Geo Wild, the Fight for Life Along the Mississippi 2012-02-11T00:09:11Z

Last year, Mississippi put "In God We Trust" on the state's seal, Miles noted. Mississippi lawmakers want to make Bible state's official book 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Greenwood is on the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, not far from where the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha Rivers meet to form the Yazoo. A Sculptor Takes His Craft to the Skies 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

On my visit, I caught the Unterwalden, a 113-year-old ferry that seemed like a cross between a Mississippi River steamboat and a luxury ocean liner. Take a lunch cruise on Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Mississippi indie closely modelled on real, damaged life. This week's new films 2011-03-12T00:07:12Z

With 1.3 million residents, Maine is the least densely populated state east of the Mississippi River. 10 of the most eco-friendly destinations in North America 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

In format, it resembles the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum recently opened in Jackson, though the two differ in emphasis. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Everyone in the group spent at least his adolescent years west of the Mississippi River — Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, California — and Miles’s slyly swinging compositions are built perfectly to find the natural simpatico between these musicians. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Barges laden with hundreds of tons of coal drifted silently down the Mississippi, but often my view across America’s mightiest river was unblemished by any evidence of modernity. Perspective | Summer reading shouldn’t be a chore 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

He earned the enduring appreciation of the American revolutionaries by not only defeating the British in Florida but also by allowing colonial troops access to the Mississippi River as a critical supply line. A picture of persistence in honoring a Spanish hero of the Revolutionary War

It is completely unlike the situation in the United States, where Amtrak killed off most dining cars on train routes east of the Mississippi River in 2019. Dining in Style, at 90 Miles an Hour 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Because mud is a fact of life on the Mississippi — even on top of sand — campers should take plastic tarps for ground cloths and plenty of fresh water. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

Because much of her work was set in Mississippi, critics reflexively compared it to Faulkner, an analogy that caused her no small irritation over time. Ellen Douglas, Southern Novelist, Dies at 91 2012-11-12T05:37:19Z

To many people, the word “magnolia” is synonymous with our native Magnolia grandiflora, the classic Southern magnolia with large, glossy leaves and huge, fragrant white blossoms―the state flower of Mississippi and Louisiana. Magnolia Planting Guide 2011-03-14T17:50:03.507Z

The struggles of Native women across the country, or women in deep red states like Utah and Mississippi, are not unique to these places. America’s abortion deserts: How the right turns back the clock on Roe 2014-01-16T12:44:00Z

“For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris,” Spears wrote. The 8 biggest bombshells in Britney Spears’ forthcoming memoir, “The Woman in Me” 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Consider the fact that the biggest proponent of voter intimidation is not a Mississippi sheriff trawling registration rolls for black people but a real-estate developer born and raised in Queens.” Sunday Reading: Voting in America 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

“This was asked for by the cattle producers in Mississippi to clarify labeling laws,” Pigott said. Don’t call it a burger! Meat industry fights back as interest grows in plant-based food 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

The boy is Nick, who grew up in a Mississippi River town in Missouri and became a magazine writer in New York, where he meets the blonde, beautiful and bright Amy. Flynn's 'Gone Girl' poised to be summer thriller 2012-06-22T17:02:13Z

It is a weird, visually engaging take on the story of the boy from Mississippi who transforms into The King. Jacob Elordi vs. Austin Butler: A battle of the Elvises 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z

Mississippi has perennially ranked last in categories including median family income and various health and education metrics, while also topping Gallup’s list of most conservative states. In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth

He entered Mississippi College, in Clinton, intending to study medicine, but soon switched to literature. Barry Hannah obituary 2010-05-20T17:43:00Z

But they also introduced original songs, never more powerfully than with "In the Mississippi River," written by Marshall Jones. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

He also loved jazz, and made a recent album loosely in that lineage — “The Bright Mississippi” on Nonesuch in 2009 — with the producer Joe Henry. Review: Allen Toussaint’s Last Album, ‘American Tunes’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

For its maiden voyage, the ship is timing its arrival with , treating passengers to ever-changing views, eclectic live shows, and a Southern-inspired menu by chef Regina Charboneau of Twin Oaks B&B in Natchez, Mississippi. Shake the Blues in Memphis 2013-04-25T14:20:10.780Z

Sandbagging in the Shadow of the Mississippi An environmental calamity cannot be easy to wrangle onto the stage. | 'On the Levee': Tamping Down a Flood at the Duke on 42nd Street 2010-06-29T02:37:00Z

Buffett was born in Mississippi and grew up on the Alabama coast, and his sister owns a popular restaurant and marina on the intracoastal waterway within a few miles of the beach. Free Buffett beach show draws crowd on oiled coast 2010-07-12T00:09:00Z

Baran and her team moved to Mississippi for almost a year to report the Flowers story. Why “In the Dark” May Be the Best Podcast of the Year 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Bill Cosby talks about how his wife befriended a group of Mississippi quilters and how “the quilts tell a story of life,” he says. Works from Cosby art collection to be shown at National Museum of African Art

The Clarion-Ledger wrote a story Monday about how Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Mississippi, bagged the rare bird, which is not illegal to hunt. Olbermann: Make hunter’s life ‘hell’ for rare turkey shoot 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Thanks to his time on The Memphis Commercial Appeal, he knew very well the Memphis of my childhood, Memphis being the nearest city of any size to my little North Mississippi town. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The same year that Heat-Moon published his book, Correro was running a pharmacy business in Greenville, Mississippi, and raising a family with his wife. Dirt-Road America 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Both Titus and Kimmy discover a common thread as outsiders/survivors — he escaped his Mississippi childhood, she escaped the Rev. Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’: Too good for NBC, but still not that great 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Six hailed from California, one from Canada, two from Georgia, two from Alabama and the rest from Mississippi Almost all had Southern roots. Is the Museum of the Bible that tourist-destination evangelicals have been waiting for? 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Lewis calls her effectively “the soul of the Mississippi movement.” Rep. John Lewis’s new ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

My county Leflore was the lynching capital of Mississippi, which per capita lynched more African Americans than any other state, and many of these lynchings took place in the Leflore County Massacre of 1889. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

Along the way, he was rained on, suffered countless flat tires and even got shot at in Mississippi. How a cross-country bike trip inspired Ben Townsend's old-time music album 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Thomas, who was raised by her single mother and grandmother, had never left Mississippi. New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

While things are improving, even in notoriously fact-phobic states like Mississippi and Texas, “abstinence-only” education continues to persist in school districts across the nation. 11 heinous lies conservatives are teaching America’s school children 2013-03-13T16:34:00Z

In a sense the last major professional group of Midwest historians, the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, was a victim of its own success. Plowing Deeper: A New Historical Association for the Midwest 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

To Mississippi, after expressing outrage about their flag, he said: “Yeah, you could pass the ERA but, let’s be honest, it would be extremely out of character.” John Oliver: equal rights are 'so obvious, you assume we already have it' 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

In the scenes that follow, I’m driving and then I’m walking up to the Mississippi river as the chorus again plays in the background. Just in time for Valentine's Day: my failed proposal to get my girlfriend back 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

The dates run from Chicago into the south, through impressive weather, green fields and mossy swamps, down to Mississippi, where Notaro was born. TV Pick: 'Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

That’s just one chapter in a long and varied career that started, while he was studying piano in college, with playing in ballet studios in Mississippi. Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist’s Drag Persona 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Forming a “contiguous band” of Black voters across the South — Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, in particular — would “upend America’s political calculus and exponentially increase” Black citizens’ influence in American politics. Should Black Northerners Move Back to the South? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

T-Model had worked most of his life in logging and sawmill operations, but one day a record executive had heard him playing a rough exuberant blues in a bar in Mississippi, and signed him up. Heartbreak specialists: how Mississippi bluesmen got me through my divorce 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Smoky Mountain Snowcaps   Just like the banks of the Mississippi River, these cookies are ooey, gooey, and chocolate brown. Our Best Cookies 2010-12-01T17:40:00Z

He also lived in Mississippi with his grandmother, a more stable caretaker; she died before he went to high school. Framing the Unruliness of Life and Loss in a Black Box 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

It’s an album about the Great Migration, during which his mother made her way from Mississippi to Detroit, where he was born in 1963. Playlist : Improvisatory Responses To Post-Punk Chirping 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z

The face of the young woman in his famous image “Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, D.C., 1963” has the weight of a monument. Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The letter added that the deaths were as a result of years of severe understaffing and neglect at Mississippi’s prisons, NBC said. Jay-Z sues Mississippi prison officials over unfair conditions: NBC News 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Money Road led out to what once had been known as Money, Mississippi, but by 1989 was nothing but a decaying cluster of buildings. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Even then I believe my interest in events in Mississippi and the South was that of a newsman,” Mr. Leeson wrote in an e-mail message late last month. Echoes of Willie McGee?s Execution, on NPR 2010-05-05T23:20:00Z

Later that summer in 1964, Collins would travel through Mississippi trying to register people to vote. Folk activist Judy Collins revisits her first live album 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Civil rights activists used the song frequently; it was sung by African-American children at school segregation protests in Mississippi and Louisiana, and by participants in Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Detroit in 1963. ‘God Bless America’: 100 Years of an Immigrant’s Anthem 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

All are present in this 75-minute suite which sees him and his band providing live accompaniment to Bill Morrison's artful film about the Mississippi River flood of 1927. London jazz festival 2012: from Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding to John Paul Jones – what to see 2012-11-07T12:56:00Z

The score that night was Vanderbilt 90, Mississippi 72. ‘Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

With its roots in a Mississippi Jewish summer camp, the museum relocated to downtown New Orleans and had a soft opening in 2021. In New Orleans, Time-Tested Charms and Some Bright New Baubles 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

The four-month sojourn was Samuel L. Clemens’s first visit to Manhattan — before piloting up and down the Mississippi, before christening himself Mark Twain, before the California gold fields and a certain jumping frog and immortality. New York?s Huckleberry Friend 2010-08-26T22:37:00Z

Graced by gospel harmonies, “Disappearing” offers caveat emptor for the kind of tortured artists who might try dipping into the Mississippi. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

As the Daily Beast’s Katie Zavadski reports, the University of Mississippi’s chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity is now under investigation for the gross behavior of its members during a “Derby Days” charity event. What frat boy “charity” looks like: Sorority women “humiliated in the name of philanthropy” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

White Citizens Councils disavowed them while they fought desegregation in Mississippi. It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Hear the phrase “the Mississippi River at flood stage” and you’re likely to conjure images of homes and farm fields underwater, and rescuers in rowboats helping people escape from second-story windows. | 'Wild Mississippi': On Nat Geo Wild, the Fight for Life Along the Mississippi 2012-02-11T00:09:11Z

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the convention chair, explained what Ocasio-Cortez was doing. Night two of the virtual DNC held aloft the party's true stars: America and her people 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

The Mississippi River is irradiated, dividing the country. Video Game Review: Defending America, the Underdog 2011-03-24T22:00:11Z

During a speech to supporters in Mississippi, President Trump exercised his power to humiliate, mocking Blasey Ford to the cheers of his audience. The Kavanaugh hearings: Angry white men get to be righteous; angry women “a mob” 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

At Disneyland, the attraction is adjacent to New Orleans Square; at Magic Kingdom, the attraction sits on the Rivers of America, directly across from Tom Sawyer's Island, a story that takes place on the Mississippi. First look at new details of Disney's upcoming 'Princess and the Frog' attraction 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Mississippi legislators passed a bill requiring the state to provide exit signs for the crash monument. Play ‘Free Bird,’ man: Signs point to Skynyrd crash monument 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Taylor said Mississippi provides a similar look because it is “on that same line of latitude.” James Brown Biopic to be Filmed in Mississippi 2013-08-26T18:55:01Z

His 10-minute song "Lucille," released on a 1968 album of the same name, tells the story of the prized guitar, and also chronicles his own rise from Mississippi plantation worker to "King of the Blues." B.B. King dies: A fire, a fight and a lifetime with his guitar Lucille 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

They can try a whiskey drink, made from the owners’ 150-year-old family recipe, on the rooftop bar with stunning views of the Mississippi River. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

I start sounding like I really am from Mississippi. Don’t write off Mississippi: Before you dismiss us as “a garbage state,” listen to the queer Southerners you’re leaving behind 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Amazon show is loosely based on her life, and stars her as a woman returning to her Mississippi hometown to deal with the death of her mother. Amazon Announces New Pilots From Louis C.K., Tig Notaro and Sacha Baron Cohen 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

It's one of several new comedies to be released this fall, Amazon said Sunday, beginning with comedian Tig Notaro's "One Mississippi," inspired by events in her life and debuting Sept. 9. Woody Allen's Amazon series gets fall debut date, title 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

The show’s two white characters are not actively hostile — which almost counted as tolerant in the 1960s South — and don’t want to be compared to “them rednecks in Alabama and Mississippi.” Review: In ‘Travisville,’ the Rocky Path of Change in a Southern Town 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the late afternoon of April 28, 1836 barges were docking for the night along the slips lining the Mississippi River in St. Louis. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z

These series found it in a snake-infested Florida swamp and in a Mississippi strip club. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The ethos here is steeped in that particular Mississippi stank, for which Laymon’s grandmother is a living embodiment. Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Sturkey’s book is a portrait of a Mississippi town from its founding in 1882 through the depredations of racial apartheid, ending with a brief coda on the civil rights movement. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

She noted that her mother moved from Mississippi to Chicago, where she attended her first integrated school. Righting Wrongs and Generating Attention for Art of the African Diaspora 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Faulkner was a native of New Albany, Miss., then lived in Oxford, Miss. The University of Mississippi runs a museum at his Greek Revival house. William Faulkner collection auctioned in NYC 2010-06-22T17:04:00Z

The band also suspended shows in Jackson, Mississippi; Atlanta; and Cullman, Alabama, with the Aug. 13 show in Atlanta rescheduled for Oct. Lynyrd Skynyrd pulls out of Pro Football Hall of Fame show 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

Casey L. Austin is one of the attorneys representing inmates in a federal lawsuit against Mississippi over conditions in the state’s prisons. Mississippi inmate tries to hang self in cell, attorney says 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

“One Mississippi” stars Ms. Notaro as a radio personality with a complicated relationship to her Mississippi hometown. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Later, he set out on a public “Walk Against Fear” in 1966 to prove that a Black man could walk peacefully in Mississippi. James Meredith film weighs ‘complicated’ civil rights figure 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

In the years before the Civil War, historians tell us, plantation wealth made this part of the Mississippi home to perhaps two-thirds of the country’s millionaires. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z

He was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, and grew up on the Honey Island plantation. Pinetop Perkins obituary 2011-03-23T12:11:44Z

You wonder whether the show’s integrationist philosophy arises from its host’s having been raised, reared and professionally trained in Milwaukee, Mississippi, Tennessee and the broadcast environs of Baltimore and Chicago. Oprah Earned This Museum Show. And It’s a Potent Spectacle. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

His wife, Nan, was born to an affluent, influential family in Mississippi, but sent away by her father to the evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois, where she meets James at a music recital. A Lifetime at a Church, Filled With Faith and Drama 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

“One Mississippi” becomes a study of how identity, in a family, is a group project — we often edit our loved ones into the people we want them to be. Review: Have You Heard the One About the Grieving Daughter? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

A nostalgic but far from rose-tinted memoir about growing up in 1940s Mississippi, where the eponymous jack russell helps a boy overcome his shyness. Dog weepie movies – ranked! 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible to read “Salvage the Bones” and maintain the fantasy that what poor people in Mississippi really need is a cut in the estate tax or a work requirement to get medical care. Perspective | Feeling discouraged about the state of the world? Drop in on a book club. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Nineteen newspapers in Mississippi consider themselves dailies, yet only four publish seven days a week, said Ryan Nave, Mississippi Today’s editor-in-chief. NBC News chairman an unexpected figure in Mississippi news 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Presley was born in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, about a hundred miles southeast of Memphis. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Nobody signs with Mississippi Records to get rich. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Ten days later, police in Jackson, Mississippi, shot and killed two more students. The Classic Vietnam-Era Documentary “The War at Home” and Its Lessons of Nonviolence 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

When the Great Mississippi Flood displaced hundreds of thousands of African Americans in 1927, many chose to keep on going. Alison Saar traces diasporas in the exceptional 'Silt, Soot and Smut' at L.A. Louver Gallery 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, opened and closed the sessions with heavy-hearted urgency. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

This year he is a visiting writer at the University of Southern Mississippi. Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Harris wrote his second novel, “Red Dragon,” which introduced Hannibal, when he was caring for his ailing father in Mississippi. Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti) 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

The river is the Mississippi, because all of the songs are about the Delta, except for “When the Master Calls the Roll” which is about Virginia. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z

He opened Flav's Fried Chicken in Clinton, Iowa last month - his only connection to the Mississippi River town. Flavor Flav pitches new show at Iowa high school 2011-02-15T16:32:15Z

One line, in reference to the 1991 film “Mississippi Masala,” is particularly poignant: “The desire to see one’s self and community reflected runs deep.” New & Noteworthy Poetry, From ‘White Blood’ to the Book of Job 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

I’m eager to get to Jackson to see the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum which opened last December. Martin Luther King anniversary: the US Civil Rights Trail 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

JACKSON, Miss. — Actor Morgan Freeman and his business partner are ending their 10-year run as owners of an upscale restaurant in the heart of the impoverished Mississippi Delta. Actor Morgan Freeman closing Miss. restaurant 2012-02-29T19:48:12Z

Later achievements include the civil rights crime film Mississippi Burning, for which Parker received a second Oscar nomination, and the Bafta-winning Irish musical comedy The Commitments. How Alan Parker progressed to Bafta's top table 2013-01-23T10:11:55Z

Part of the genius of William Faulkner is that most of his stories are set in the same fictionalized version of Oxford, Mississippi. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“Are your people still in Mississippi?” he asked, reverting bewilderingly to the only fact that had caught his attention. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Newly freed slaves in Mississippi, Virginia, South Carolina and other states faced a reign of terror by vindictive whites. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

McDonald’s is not the only business that will still require or encourage customers to wear masks in Texas or Mississippi. McDonald's restaurants in Texas and Mississippi to keep dining rooms closed, require masks 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Here, three contemporary writers explore the beauty, tragedy and humanity in the Mississippi River region. What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

“I hadn’t been to Mississippi when I wrote ‘Proud Mary,’ nor had I been to Louisiana when I wrote ‘Born on the Bayou.’ Where John Fogerty's Songs Come From 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

We expected few joints east of the Mississippi would hazard an attempt at Texas-style brisket. Before the Wedding, a Test: 3,000 Miles of Barbecue 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Malcolm, the auctioneer, has been swept away by a flood in the swamplands of Mississippi and finds himself wounded and snarled in a tree. Theater Review: ?Lost on the Natchez Trace? by Jan Buttram 2012-02-17T00:04:34Z

My husband and I eat Korean food about 90% of the time here at home in Mississippi and wake up craving the sweet, salty, umami, spicy dishes that remind us of where we met. What is "southern" food? Dale Gray takes readers from South Africa to South Korea for the answer 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

Past seasons have gone inside programs at small schools in Scooba, Mississippi, and Independence, Kansas. "Last Chance U" director on Coach Beam's "Yoda-like" wisdom & the Oakland team's sacrifices 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Northerners, provincials that they are, regard the South as one large Mississippi,” the historian V.O. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

I spent a week here earlier this month, seeing how restaurants are answering that question, eating high and low, new and old along the bends in the Mississippi River. Critic?s Notebook: Seeking Tastes of the ?Real? New Orleans 2010-04-28T04:17:00Z

Some 35 black churches were burned in Mississippi that summer, and five dozen homes and safe houses were bombed. Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z

By the mid-1960s King had become a crucial blues ambassador, one who helped redirect the music from its raw, rural Mississippi heritage to a pliable, cosmopolitan music accessible to mainstream audiences. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Her grown sons refuse to let her drive through Mississippi alone. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Decades ago, after Mississippi was hit by a series of ruinous floods, the Richmond-Edwards family had to leave land they owned there and head to Detroit, where Jamea was born. Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Born in 1857 in Biloxi, Mississippi, Ohr worked as a blacksmith, candlemaker, and sailor before turning to his attention to clay. A George Ohr Vase Is on the Block 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

That relentlessly cheery attitude punctures your ears like the squeak of a fingernail on a blackboard in the final scene, in which Mississippi performs Kander and Ebb’s “Sing Happy,” from “Flora the Red Menace.” | 'Happythankyoumoreplease': Singles, City and Child 2011-03-03T23:35:39Z

The "Breaking Bad" star pledged his support for Hillary Clinton during the panel discussion, which touched on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's fight against the state's all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic convention. Bryan Cranston leads celebs signing anti-Trump pledge 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

As we nudged the Mustang on to the vast metal bridge spanning the Mississippi, a glorious sunset broke behind us, shading the skies in luminescent reds and streaks of burnt orange. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z

Jay Leno brought comedy and cash to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to help the area recover from the BP oil spill. Jay Leno raises $100,000 for Gulf Coast recovery 2010-08-22T16:40:00Z

Communicating a welcoming attitude is also how the Mississippi travel industry is trying to deal with the effects of its 1523 bill that was passed on March 30. North Carolina and Mississippi See Tourist Backlash After L.G.B.T. Laws 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

His death represents the loss of the last direct link to the first generation of Mississippi blues musicians, Frank said. Bluesman David 'Honey Boy' Edwards dead at 96 2011-08-30T00:32:17Z

Correction: An earlier version of this report said that the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area is in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Meet the latest tourist attractions: Abandoned factories 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

GREENWOOD, Miss. — When bluesman Robert Johnson died broke and all but unknown in a tiny Mississippi crossroads town, he was buried in a homemade coffin and an unmarked grave. Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z

The first thing she noticed when she moved to Oxford, Mississippi, was that she could order a glass of wine at lunch in a restaurant and nobody thought anything of it. “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Interestingly, the 2017 Ag Census showed that irrigation increases have shifted eastward into the Mississippi delta region, the Midwestern corn belt and southeastern states. Crop irrigation has changed, according to a new study 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Senate that would lead to the famous congressional compromise over slavery later that year, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi delivered a florid floor speech that lamented the impending ruin of the nation. Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

“The Searcher” is a deeply personal look at Presley’s creative process and musical influences, beginning with his childhood in Mississippi to his final recording sessions in 1976. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ and ‘Right Now, Wrong Then’ 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z

A new Scion hotel project promoted by the Trump Organization in Cleveland, Mississippi will feature a Southern mansion and a meeting hall inspired after the cotton-gin, Bloomberg reported this week. Trump-brand hotel to be styled after a Southern antebellum plantation 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

One moment that Morris pointed to is in this Mississippi mystery. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ and ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

We were filming on the sidelines in Scooba, Mississippi, during the first two seasons we were making of “Last Chance U.” Netflix's "Cheer" director: Cheerleaders are "the toughest athletes I’ve ever filmed" 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Wings of Rescue is proud to be flying a special passenger on tomorrow morning's flight from Mississippi to New Jersey,” the post begins. Military couple's dog returned to them two years after it was stolen 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

When I reached the Mississippi River at its source in northern Minnesota, a grocery clerk made sure to inform me that I was closer to the finish than the start. Bicycling Across the Country: Bruce Weber Reflects 2011-10-21T18:50:10Z

Elaanie Stormbender, a witch and mother of five who lives in Jackson, Mississippi, said all the members of the small community of witches to which she belongs are displeased with Marnie's behavior. Real witches cry foul at portrayal on "True Blood" 2011-08-12T18:53:24Z

From Viroqua, I head west another 20 miles to Genoa, where I cut north on the Great River Road, a national scenic byway skirting the Mississippi River. In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Richardson is on the extreme other side of the sympathy scale from Fred LaRue, the moneyman from Mississippi who served as deputy director of the infamous Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Books of The Times: ?Watergate,? a Novel by Thomas Mallon 2012-02-15T20:34:23Z

The first notes sounded of a mashed-up Mississippi blues tune and a black hat appeared, above a thin silhouette of jacket and skinny pants, but softened with a big, marshmallow-soft bow. Fashion Review: The Regeneration Game 2012-10-02T18:41:31Z

One day, I read about an enslaved woman whose master was working her to death to pick as much cotton as she could on a plantation in Mississippi. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

The Grammy winner is nearly unrecognizable playing Florence, the wife of a sharecropper in 1940s Mississippi. Tiffany Haddish and Mary J. Blige are among nine movie scene-stealers from 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

By Friday evening, the outer bands of Lee, the 12th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, already began dumping rain over southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi and Alabama. Tropical Storm Lee forms in the Gulf 2011-09-03T01:18:00Z

After competing in an international ballet competition in Mississippi, he received a scholarship to train at the Miami City Ballet School and soon joined the company. New York City Ballet Promotes Three Men to Principal Dancers 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Her mother, who grew up in Mississippi and was not allowed into segregated public libraries, was a Jehovah’s Witness who fostered an early interest in reading and ­writing. Gloria Naylor, whose novels gave voice to African American women, dies at 66 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s so gorgeous,” said Ms. Klemm, shaking her head and looking over the stone wall at the falls, the second largest by volume east of the Mississippi after Niagara. In Undiscovered Paterson, Falls, Food and Fetty Wap 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

At the time, she had no experience as a producer but plenty of renown as an actress, including an Oscar for "Fargo" and nominations for "Mississippi Burning," "Almost Famous" and "North Country." Frances McDormand embraces abrasive 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

Miss Georgia had Coca-Cola bottles on her shoes and Miss Mississippi festooned hers with hot air balloons. Here’s What You Didn’t See on Miss America 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Being from Mississippi, I’m used to the slower pace of the south, the complex history of institutional suppression and the erasure of anything that isn’t straight, white, male or wealthy. The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

Such is the case with this dish from Yung Chow, published in The Times in 2003 with an article about the history of Chinese American families who settled in the Mississippi Delta. These Thanksgiving Recipes From the Archives Feel Timeless 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Old Lucas, played by the able veteran musical performer Chuck Cooper, waxes lyrical on the subject of the mighty Mississippi River, which he compares to a father wanting to embrace his lost daughter. | 'On the Levee': Tamping Down a Flood at the Duke on 42nd Street 2010-06-29T02:37:00Z

For Carolyn, who came to Maryland from Mississippi on a one-way bus ticket in 1989, sticking with her studies was like taking another leap of faith, she said. At age 5 he vowed to go to college with his mom. They just graduated together. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Ms. Larson analyzes holes and gouges in antique bedsteads for her museum clients, who are scattered from Maine to Mississippi. Museums Are Trying New Things in the Bedroom 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Finn also notes the recent mounting of a play in the Terrace Theater, “Byhalia, Mississippi,” that fulfills his agreement with the center for one “self-produced” play each year. Perspective | How the Kennedy Center’s theater chief sniffs out Broadway-worthy winners 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The “Anacostia Delta,” Gatton’s nickname for the Washington region, is a play on the Mississippi Delta, home to an instantly recognizable style of blues. A look back at guitarist Danny Gatton and the rise of ‘Anacostia Delta’ blues 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Water that flows to the east eventually reaches the Chesapeake Bay watershed; to the west, it makes its way to the Mississippi River basin. Hello, Dolly. A visitor finally gets to West Virginia’s ‘bit of Canada gone astray.’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Hostile whites in Moody’s hometown of Centreville, Mississippi even threatened to kill her if she ever returned. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

The preliminary injunction in Mississippi will hold until any appeals are completed. U.S. district judge strikes down Mississippi’s ‘religious freedom’ law 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

In the months ahead, the homestyle restaurant is looking to add drinks to the menu in Indiana, Mississippi and Virginia, Cochran said. Cracker Barrel to add alcohol to more restaurant menus, CEO says 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Chef Andre Rush grew up in a housing project in Columbus, Mississippi. Andre Rush, Army veteran and celebrity chef, brings fresh awareness to PTSD, suicide prevention 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

A Mississippi state TV commission refused to air “Sesame Street” after complaints about the racially integrated cast. ‘Sesame Street’ Was Always Political 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

These days Mississippi Avenue is “sleepily trendy,” as a Serious Eats blogger wrote in a review of Interurban when it opened in 2011. On the ‘Wild’ Movie Trail in Oregon 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

He soon became a regular at clubs in Natchez, just across the Mississippi River, and on the Natchez radio station KWKH. Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Poitier refused to film below the Mason-Dixon line, in southern Pennsylvania, since he and Harry Belafonte had recently been harassed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. How we made In the Heat of the Night 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

They tell their stories in dramatic monologues as they motor into Kent, recalling the structure and the events of William Faulkner's Modernist classic As I Lay Dying, set in Mississippi in the 1920s. Ten of the best 2011-02-05T00:14:00Z

The Mississippi Museum of Art held a retrospective exhibit of his work a few years later. Marshall J. Bouldin III, Portrait Artist, Is Dead at 89 2012-11-16T00:51:51Z

Fainter still, fading away now, talking about Mississippi’s eternal attitude toward the rest of the world: “We don’t really need you to like us.” In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Among the items on display is a quilt sewn in her murdered son’s honor from pieces of his clothes she sent to the women she had met so long ago in Mississippi. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Others claim Mississippi soldiers from the Mexican-American War returned with tamale recipes, and a few assert tamales are a result of a Native American population with a surplus of maize. Tamales, Catfish and Meringue Pie: Delicacies of the Mississippi Delta 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

That part of north Mississippi is pretty rural, it's rough terrain. Wife, mother arrested, search continues for kidnap-murder suspect 2012-05-09T12:29:00Z

Other photographs capture the Black institutions that arose in response to racial segregation: a Negro league stadium in Michigan, a hotel for Black travelers in Mississippi. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

In recent months, the HRC has launched a $9.5 million program to advance gay rights in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, where he had grown up in the closet. Meet two activists who brought sweeping change to the gay rights movement

The pain of their absence walks with their loved ones beneath the humid Mississippi sky, the bowing pines, the reaching oak. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

In political terms, Oxford exists in northern Mississippi as a fleck of blue in the state’s sea of conservative red. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

I am best known for my work spearheading the movement to change the Mississippi State flag.I recently returned from a five-month national tour with Vote Common Good, of which I am the poet laureate. The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

His other books included “Teaching What Really Happened,” “The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White” and the memoir “Up a Creek, With a Paddle.” James W. Loewen, wrote ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ dead at 79 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

In the season premiere, a character cites the killing of Andrew Goodman, the civil rights volunteer who was murdered with two co-workers in Mississippi. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z

Mississippi Records next door has an impressive selection of R&B, soul, reggae, ska, punk and modern. 36 Hours in Portland, Ore. 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

His father, who died when Raúl was 12, had been a laborer in the U.S. during World War II, laying railroad tracks from Texas to Mississippi. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Scenes for a movie based on the book were shot in Mississippi. Family maid sues author of best-seller 'The Help' 2011-02-17T18:07:08Z

“So west of the Mississippi was left to the last in the class. And most of the time, west of the Mississippi meant that you had to work with African American troops.” Black Soldiers Cycled 1,900 Miles Across the U.S. So He Did, Too. 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Imagine trying to guide the Mississippi River through a beer bong. Grammys 2015: The Music Industrial Complex reveals this year's models 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

An affidavit filed with the Hardeman County Court said Teresa Mayes told agents of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation she drove the victims from Hardeman County, Tennessee, to Union County, Mississippi. Wife, mother arrested, search continues for kidnap-murder suspect 2012-05-09T12:29:00Z

Taste of the Rural The Jackson Farmer’s Market at the Mississippi Fairgrounds will give you a taste of the rest of the largely rural state. 36 Hours in Jackson, Miss. 2013-05-30T17:27:31Z

Four years later, Boggs would issue the Extermination Order that would send Mary and thousands of Saints fleeing for their lives across the frozen Mississippi river. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z

After Kennedy toured the poverty-stricken Mississippi delta, King praised him. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

“And you have to continue to tell these stories. I know that ‘Do the Right Thing’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’ had a big effect on me when I grew up. Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The second of six children of a “genteel poor” Mississippi family, she abided by her parents’ “trinity of education, faith and service.” Kill a Dead-End Job and Make the Leap to Career Happiness 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

But I felt filled to the brim by the charged atmosphere of the Mississippi story, the slow moody burning of its disasters. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

An Episcopal priest read a list of Mississippi authors and musicians who were also being memorialized, including William Faulkner and Muddy Waters. Mississippi group honors fictional man in ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

For his first Thanksgiving-themed episode, airing Dec. 8, he goes wild turkey hunting in rural Mississippi. Holiday TV programming is a feast for adventurous foodies 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

He is buried in the small town of Indianola, Mississippi, near the community where he grew up picking cotton. 1 of B.B. King’s ‘Lucille’ guitars sold for $280K at auction 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

In 1963, Moody became infamous in Mississippi after she challenged racial segregation in what would be the era’s most violent lunch-counter sit-in. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Officials in several coastal Louisiana and Mississippi communities called for voluntary evacuations. Tropical Storm Lee forms in the Gulf 2011-09-03T01:18:00Z

There’s something about fishing and boating on that part of the Mississippi River that intrigues me. Sit a Spell with Jimmy Buffett 2012-05-29T15:50:14.157Z

Old enough to know ex-slaves and Civil War veterans, Spencer chronicled her complicated affection for her ties to tiny Carrollton, Mississippi — her determination to honor them and to leave them behind. Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

I’m a one-book-at-a-time reader, and right now it’s “King of the Mississippi,” by Mike Freedman, another Houston writer. Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

But the historic views are the main attraction: Mark Twain’s Mississippi, Jessie James’s Missouri hide-outs; the New Mexican stomping grounds of the Apache and Navajo nations; and the distant white-capped Rockies. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

This year its stages will be at Jackson Square, on Bourbon Street, in the open-air French Market and the grassy park along the Mississippi River and elsewhere in the Quarter. New Orleans French Quarter Fest kicks off Thursday 2012-04-11T18:41:17Z

Mississippi’s most powerful supporter of a new flag no longer seemed to be such a powerful supporter of a new flag. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Williams’s family moved to 4633 Westminster Place — now called “The Tennessee” — from Mississippi in 1918, when Williams was 7, and lived there for four years before moving elsewhere in the city. Staging ‘The Glass Menagerie’ on the Fire Escapes That Inspired It 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Colorado, Illinois, Maine, California and Mississippi have recently taken steps to reduce their populations in solitary, as much in response to economics as to humanitarian appeals. Solitary Confinement is Topic for Humanities Institute 2012-11-18T23:07:45Z

I’ve got all these questions and I’m stuck in New Orleans because the roads leading to his Mississippi home remain flooded and impassable. The search for Hurricane Katrina survivors: Door to door in St. Bernard Parish 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

A reconstituted Museum of Mississippi History — the original was lost to Hurricane Katrina — simultaneously made its debut in the same new $90 million building occupied by the Civil Rights Museum. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The promising debut of Lance Hammer, a writer-director from California, Ballast centres on a group of black people in a desolate corner of the flat, depressed Mississippi delta. Ballast ? review 2011-03-20T00:05:16Z

His parents settled there after his father finished Harvard Business School, and his father approached agriculture in the Mississippi Delta with entrepreneurial zeal, he said. Up Close: A-List Parties: More Taste, Less Flash 2010-12-16T05:40:03Z

Unique fashion in New York, original artwork straight out of the Midwest, cooking tutorials syruped over with beautiful Mississippi accents, underground comedians from LA working on their sets, Philly poets putting on weekly performances. Don't tell me my accent doesn't exist 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

All's fair in the ratings race between rival TV stations in small-town Mississippi in the reality series "Breaking Greenville." TV This Week, Jan. 25-31: 'Bad Words,' Mel Brooks and more 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

If “less directly” doesn’t seem quite enough, another Mississippi trail tells the same story much more explicitly. The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

It officially has been federally designated the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, one of fewer than 50 such treasures spread across the United States, from frigid Alaska to sunny Florida. The Delta gains national recognition 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Born in Mississippi, Ruffin moved to Detroit in the early 1960s and was signed to Motown's Miracle label. Jimmy Ruffin, Motown singer, dies 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

"Mississippi is my favorite state, but ironically, it was the most challenging state overall to get through," Barnes said. New York man bicycling across US reveals his favorite state so far: ‘Feel at home’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

He was a momma's boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, who grew up to be one of the most iconic performers to ever live. I gave my heart away at Graceland 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Even though the show deals with sad and heavy topics, “Mississippi” is easy to like and easy to love, insightful in ways that are calming rather than jarring. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

He's going to a college town that's well-known for its association with William Faulkner, who made his home in the north Mississippi city. Pulitzer-winning writer Ford to teach at Ole Miss 2011-01-05T22:05:16Z

This year there were evening-long showcases for rock from Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Spain, South Korea and China; for songwriters from Mississippi; for New Orleans bounce music; for hip-hop from Minnesota. Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z

The black youth is Pip, and together Pip and Ishmael agree to run away together, not on a raft on the Mississippi but aboard a Nantucket whaling ship. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z

In "Miscegenation," a poem in "Native Guard," she wrote about her parents' journey to Ohio in 1965 for a marriage that was illegal at home in Mississippi. Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate 2012-06-07T02:59:08Z

"It's a holy pilgrimage to people who are interested in the Mississippi story we have to tell through music." Robert Plant 'Walking Into Clarksdale' on Saturday 2012-08-09T16:30:19Z

“Mississippi Grind” indulges in some of the fantasies of the genre without sacrificing credibility. Review: ‘Mississippi Grind’ Keeps Its Cards Close 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Like the so-called Mississippi baby, she became infected before birth and received drug treatment in the first weeks of her life. Teenager infected with HIV before birth healthy after 12 years without treatment 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

One Mississippi” is the latest autobiographical project from Ms. Notaro, the comic who won acclaim for her revealing stand-up act, “Boyish Girl Interrupted,” and was recently the subject of a Netflix documentary. Amazon Announces New Pilots From Louis C.K., Tig Notaro and Sacha Baron Cohen 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Now known as Mississippi Roast, it would eventually become one of the most popular recipes on the web, an unlikely star with unlikely ingredients, a favorite of the mom-blog set. The Improbable Rise of Mississippi Roast 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

On the female front, agents are trying to get actresses into "The Help," a DreamWorks movie set in 1960s Mississippi revolving around college-aged white women and their black maids. Hollywood courting young actors 2010-04-15T07:33:00Z

“This is surprising because I assumed that in Mississippi, every month is Confederate Heritage Month,” Wilmore responded, after a long swig of off-brand whiskey. “The South lost. Why are we still dealing with this bullsh*t?” Larry Wilmore staggered by Mississippi’s Confederate Heritage Month 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Ward won the National Book Award for fiction in 2011 for “Salvage the Bones,” which follows a poor African American family in rural Mississippi in the days leading up to — and through — Hurricane Katrina. MacArthur fellows for 2017: a tragicomic novelist, an 'Afropolitan' painter and more 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

It joins more than 100 others set up across Mississippi. Robert Plant 'Walking Into Clarksdale' on Saturday 2012-08-09T16:30:19Z

Anthony J Rouse Sr. opened with a single store in Cajun country, which eventually grew to now 64 stores across Louisiana, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Lower Alabama. Louisiana grocery store offers jobs, hope to community during coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

As luck would have it, the six rice-growing states are among the top cotton-growing states: Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas top the list, with California, Louisiana and Missouri each growing significant cotton acreage as well. Arsenic: It’s what’s for dinner 2012-10-08T13:52:00Z

This book was born of an impulsive decision by the British travel writer Richard Grant to buy a plantation in Pluto, Miss., a small town in the Mississippi Delta, and move there with his girlfriend. What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Dozens of others will roll elsewhere in Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and Alabama. Big parade weekend kicks off in Nola 2013-02-07T21:28:10Z

In fact, in some states it’s even illegal to hire ex-prisoners for some jobs such as nurses, teachers and even in Mississippi an alligator rancher. John Oliver’s best piece ever: This brilliant expose on our endless prison cycle is an absolute must 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

In “Ghosts of Greenwood,” for Pro Publica, Nikole Hannah-Jones goes to Greenwood, Mississippi, the town where her father grew up before his family moved to Iowa to escape the Jim Crow South. Weekend Reading: Illegal Organ Transplants, A Look Back at Freedom Summer, and More 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z

The program, “Wild Mississippi” — its three segments are being shown consecutively on Sunday night on Nat Geo Wild — starts in northern Minnesota, like the river itself, and works its leisurely way down to New Orleans. | 'Wild Mississippi': On Nat Geo Wild, the Fight for Life Along the Mississippi 2012-02-11T00:09:11Z

Massachusetts earns the best marks in the nation for women's health, and Mississippi scores the worst, according to the 2014 Women's Health Report Card released today. Report card grades women's health care, one state at a time 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

But all states other than Mississippi and West Virginia allow parents not to vaccinate their children because of the family’s religious beliefs. Why is there a measles outbreak? 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Nitrates flow into waterways in the Mississippi River system, travel down to its Basin, then on into the Gulf of Mexico. Can more farmers be convinced to conserve and restore wetlands? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

The people who have populated her life find their way into her work, like her best friend’s mother from Mississippi or Franco Gaskin, a.k.a. Lauren Halsey Brings Her Vision of South Central Los Angeles to New York 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Georgia, Arizona, Mississippi and Texas saw a 40 percent growth rate. Another restaurant closes. That doesn’t mean the industry is headed for a crash. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lurie changes the setting from Cornwall to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and reduces the gap in age between husband and wife. Rod Lurie Remakes Peckinpah?s ?Straw Dogs? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z

She runs a bed-and-breakfast at her Twin Oaks plantation house, and is the culinary director of the American Queen, a cruise steamboat that plies the Mississippi. Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes and Tips from Regina Charboneau 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

However, the fort’s strategic importance quickly diminished when the Mississippi River turned away from it, isolating it in the floodplains just like an oxbow lake. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

“We will do whatever it takes to change the perception of our town and of Mississippi,” says Erin. Can HGTV make house-renovators Ben and Erin the new Chip and Joanna? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“Continuing this divisive and expensive litigation,” Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said, “is not in the best interests of the state of Mississippi or its taxpayers.” Inside the hottest gay bar in the most homophobic state in the nation 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

A detachable wall projected domestic still lifes and images of the Mississippi Delta community that has inhabited much of Mr. Lemon’s work. Jack Ferver and Ralph Lemon at the Fisher Center at Bard 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

That context gives older footage — of Lewis and Bond encouraging voter registration in 1971 in Mississippi, for instance — a renewed power. ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’ Review: Past Progress, and More to Come 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Pushers and pills, profits and pain From Mississippi straight up to Maine. Style Invitational Week 1343: We plead no contest 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“But because they’re digital-only in the least-wired state in the Union, it limits their influence. There are still a lot of people who, when you say ‘Mississippi Today,’ they say ‘who? What?’ NBC News chairman an unexpected figure in Mississippi news 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

In 1998, at the instigation of Trent Lott, the Republican majority leader from Mississippi, the US Senate passed Resolution No 155, declaring 6 April "national tartan day". To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z

It will include an enormous procession of hundreds of people carrying a cross from the Superdome to a stage near the Mississippi River, and will be hosted by Tyler Perry. ‘Grease: Live!’ Scores Big Ratings 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

We meet Ptolemy in his squalid apartment, a cockroach-infested hoarder’s paradise where he attends to the bleak drone of cable news and struggles to piece together fragmentary memories of his Mississippi childhood. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

I am thinking of Kerouac as our train, the Southwest Chief, trundles over a moonlit Mississippi River, exchanging cornfield Iowa for the western plains, as he did more than 70 years ago. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

The case of the US child caused huge excitement when the infant was brought back to the University of Mississippi medical centre in Jackson. Teenager infected with HIV before birth healthy after 12 years without treatment 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s the whole way they worked. They targeted impossible areas. They said if we can do this in Mississippi — which would cost them their lives — we will change all of America. And they were right.” Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

A retired administrator with the Mississippi Department of Health, he describes himself as a “Civil War historian” and thus has always flown a Confederate flag at the fair. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

I found a little town called Sparta in Illinois, near the Mississippi river, the most southern location I could find. How we made In the Heat of the Night 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Austin also wrote in papers filed Saturday that he saw Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch at Parchman on Friday with about 20 people, including armed state troopers. Mississippi inmate tries to hang self in cell, attorney says 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

Ms. Notaro made headlines last fall for swinging hard at her most famous champion, Louis C.K., in an episode of her lauded Amazon series, “One Mississippi.” Tig Notaro Doesn’t Want to Hear About Disgraced Men Coming Back 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

She was raised in Hickman, right on the Mississippi River, and she’s quick to point that “Mark Twain actually called it ‘a pretty town, perched on a handsome hill.’” True Love Can Leave Traces. S.G. Goodman’s Detailed Songs Do, Too. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

As one of her poems explains, Ms. Trethewey is the product of a union that was still a crime in Mississippi when her parents married: her mother was black and her father was white. Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate 2012-06-07T02:03:39Z

“Let’s change the entire United States government from right here in Mississippi,” McDaniel says to a crowd of cheering supporters outside of Jackson on Wednesday evening. In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots try to prove their worth

Then, he said, insistently: “They killed that boy in Money, Mississippi,” and gestured to the television. Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

The most expansive is the Mississippi Blues Trail, which erected its first marker in 2006 and now has 200 of them, some of which can be found in other states and even countries. The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

He’s insightful, too, about the poems, and about how Frost’s “15 years or so of farming were as valuable to him as Melville’s whaling or Faulkner’s Mississippi.” In Robert Lowell’s ‘Memoirs,’ Mental Illness, Creative Friends and a Takedown of Dad 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Steve Schofield Some years ago, a friend drove me up the Mississippi on a tour of the plantation mansions that still stud the landscape between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z

Big Bay Boom From downtown San Diego, the largest fireworks display west of the Mississippi. Friday's TV Highlights: 'A Capitol Fourth' on PBS 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

One clip shows members of the Alcorn State Golden Girls, the dance team at Alcorn State University, a historically black college in Mississippi. ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? and Its Sound Effects 2011-09-09T14:41:20Z

I’m usually a huge Holofcener fan, but there’s something about the way One Mississippi was shot that creates a disconnect. One Mississippi: Tig Notaro bares her scars in intensely dark comedy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

So it turns out that Rock Island is on the Mississippi, in Illinois.” Billy Bragg’s Railroad Songs 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

In fact, it was a goose: purchased for $25 from two Mississippi farmers, who every Saturday truck in their chickens, rabbits and other livestock. Frugal Traveler Blog: In New Orleans, Vivid Flavors of Vietnam 2013-02-06T00:20:37Z

You see, Bug used to be an expert wheelman, the best getaway driver East of the Mississippi ever since his father left. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Henson’s story, from his birth in the Mississippi Delta, to his first forays into puppetry as a teenager, to his sudden death in 1990 at the age of 53, is documented in depth. Muppet Magic Probed in New Baiography of Jim Henson 2013-09-25T16:23:56Z

Oprah talks about a Baptist church that her grandmother took her to in Mississippi. "Oprah: Gospel of an Icon": Worshipping at the church of Oprah Winfrey 2011-03-13T18:01:00Z

Her journey began in Kosciusko, Mississippi, where she was born into rural poverty. Oprah Winfrey: will the US still worship the high priestess of the talkshow? 2010-12-26T11:08:01Z

Texas and Mississippi are closing clinics at an alarming rate and denying women healthcare, but all in the name of “women’s health.” Leader in anti-choice movement admits abortion is totally safe, still wants to ban it 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

This year’s answer to “The Blind Side” may be the “The Help,” Tate Taylor’s adaptation of the best-selling novel about women’s work and civil rights in 1960s Mississippi. The Carpetbagger: In Film, So Many Men on the Verge of a Crisis 2011-11-30T23:33:02Z

Shadowing the Chehalis River, I drove west along Olympic Highway to Aberdeen, an old logging city once called “the roughest town west of the Mississippi.” Footsteps : Chasing Kurt Cobain in Washington State 2014-03-25T21:43:53Z

As of Nov. 17, there were no statewide restrictions in Mississippi. Thinking of Traveling in the U.S.? Check Which States Have Travel Restrictions 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

So he hired a Mississippi operative to organize a campaign for the imaginary candidate, Hal Philip Walker, whose hollow platitudes are pumped over a loudspeaker throughout the film. Why Robert Altman's brilliant 'Nashville' never had a sequel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

"Spies of Mississippi" will air Feb. 10 on the "Independent Lens" program. PBS' 'American Masters' to profile Alice Walker 2014-01-22T13:59:18Z

He chose the location based on research that predicted the Baltimore-Washington region would grow faster than anywhere else east of the Mississippi. Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Matthew McConaughey stars as a fugitive who has taken refuge on an island in the Mississippi. Mud - video review 2013-05-09T15:15:01Z

Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Mobley, was crowned Miss America in 1959 and became one of the few Miss Americas to launch a successful TV and movie career. Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley Dies at 75 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is heading to Mississippi to headline a festival in the historic Delta blues town he recorded a song about in 1999. Robert Plant 'Walking Into Clarksdale' on Saturday 2012-08-09T20:31:05Z

The Four Way on the corner of Mississippi Boulevard and Walker Avenue has been serving up soul food since 1946. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

There was no heavy news coverage like the Jackson State killings in Mississippi received in 1970, no unforgettable photograph like the image that burned the Kent State shootings into the American consciousness that same year. A Time of Darkness Illuminated Onstage 2010-10-20T21:55:00Z

I like that it’s set in the South—in Mississippi—but isn’t “Southern” in the traditional sense of Southern—that is, Faulknerian or O’Connor-ish. Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

So the aspiring writer pulled from her own experiences as a creative writing student at Belhaven University, a private college in Mississippi. Microaggressions at School? The ‘Hate U Give’ Team Has Been There 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Almost 150 years after Mark Twain sent Jim down the Mississippi River, we still can’t decide whether that portrayal was a breakthrough or another inscription of racism. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Known for such songs as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird," Lynyrd Skynyrd went on hiatus after its touring plane crashed in Mississippi on Oct. Lynyrd Skynyrd sues ex-drummer over movie about 1977 plane crash 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

It is 1915 in rural Mississippi, and Mr. and Mrs. Chisolm live on a large farm with their only surviving daughter, Grace. Life with a medical condition that once changed lives permanently 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

"Hellhound On My Ale," hits shelves this week in 25 states, but not Mississippi. Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z

Working with trucking companies, he organized the logistics for delivery to locations in nearly every state east of the Mississippi. The journey from seed to harvested Christmas tree is a long, winding road 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Match Day at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is always filled with pomp and tradition. They All Said Yes 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

Last week, I wrote about a Mississippi politician who had refused a female journalist’s request to shadow him on the campaign trail unless she brought along a male colleague as a sort of chaperone. Perspective | For Robert Foster’s defenders, men are victims and #MeToo is the real villain 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

DuPree became the first Black candidate to win a major party’s nomination for governor of Mississippi, and in a state where Republicans hold most statewide offices, lost in the general election to Republican Phil Bryant. Mississippi blues promoter and raconteur Bill Luckett dies 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Last week a 50 foot section finally fell about 160 feet into the Mississippi River. Landslide in western Kentucky drawing tourists 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Presley was a vehicle--cultural critics would say he was basically a mimic, or even a thief--of the black musical and spiritual experiences of his native Mississippi. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But I can tell you I really enjoyed the gift shop at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. A new guide leads travelers through U.S. civil rights history 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

On that night, at the gala celebrating the renovation of the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center on Mississippi Avenue, we sat only a few tables apart. The tale of Marion Barry, king of D.C.

Reagan knew the power of these poor whites, and he knew the language they needed to hear not just in Mississippi, but also around the country. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Or think of Greenwood, Mississippi, where half of all blacks live below the poverty line; or Wilcox County, Alabama, where 50.2 percent of blacks live in poverty compared to 8.8 percent of whites. The real forgotten Americans: School-to-prison pipelines, poverty and crime down south 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Recorded, mixed and mastered on analogue tape, the as-yet untitled work will be released by Portland's beloved Mississippi Records, which specialises in obscure blues, gospel and folk music. REM's Peter Buck to release first solo album 2012-10-02T11:58:23Z

A rare exception is Anne Moody’s “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” which was published in 1968. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Rugs remain an ongoing concern as we cut to Talbot, consort to Russell, the Vampire King of Mississippi. "True Blood" recap: Were-Swayze edition 2010-06-28T12:29:00Z

Whoever controlled the Forks controlled the Ohio, which, since it flowed west to the Mississippi, connected the east and the interior of the continent. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The soldiers of Freedom Summer soon invade Mississippi; they incur losses but seize the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

He has a deep love for the river, something he’s proud to share with Mark Twain, perhaps the most famous of all Mississippi River pilots. “Water is where I find my peace”: Meet the master river pilot who conquers the Mississippi every day 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

An 1870s writing desk by Willie Howard, a freed slave in Mississippi, is now at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Antiques: At Antiquarian Book Fair, Photos of Obama Ancestors 2012-04-05T22:12:59Z

Part of the process led him from Melbourne to Mississippi to look for bigots. ‘God’ll Cut You Down,’ a True Crime Book by John Safran 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“One Mississippi” is a nuanced, romantic and charmingly drawn series, a moseying six-episode slice of life that occasionally detours down dark alleys. Louis C.K. and Tig Notaro, Sparring on the Battlefield of Art 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Mississippi enacted a "quickie marriage" law this year to attract visitors, and similar legislation is under consideration in New Jersey. Gimmicky date a boost for lovelorn Las Vegas 2012-12-13T06:57:14Z

And above the reception desk, a 60-foot map of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers is stitched together with the city's most famous invention: Post-its. In Transit Blog: A Minneapolis Hyatt Turns 'Locavore' 2012-07-21T14:00:14Z

At the same time, I was researching a book that became “The Appeal,” about the buying of Supreme Court judges in Mississippi. John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z

The book details the wrongful convictions of two men, Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks, in the separate murders of two girls in the same rural Mississippi town in the early 1990s. The Epidemic of Wrongful Convictions in America 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Prominent cultural leaders from Mississippi have also voiced opposition. The Bryan Adams factor: One singer canceling a show won’t stop a hate bill, but these actions add up 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

But after watching the six-part first season of “One Mississippi,” which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, it’s clear that Notaro has earned the right to the term. The half-hour heartbreak: Amazon’s new comedies find laughs in painful places 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

It was 3 a.m. in Laurel, Mississippi, me and Big Cripp were wide awake, driving through the city making crack sales. My American dreams and nightmares: On Mississippi streets, "Native Son" and Jeezy vs. Gucci Mane 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

This year’s Mississippi Match Day, which took place March 15, was doubly rewarding for Morgan Davis, 27, who was nervous when called onstage. They All Said Yes 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

But no one eclipsed the pep of Rae Sremmurd, a young rap duo from Mississippi whose latest single, “No Type,” shook the air with a detonative effect. MeccaFest is no Yardfest: Disorganization aggravates crowd’s discontented mood

It began as a point of transit, a passage from the lake to the big river farther west, the Mississippi, which French explorers believed emptied into the Sea of Japan. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Even when we talk about Bel Air, it's like the Rolling Stones talking about the Mississippi. Phoenix: 'We are French, we are romantic by essence' 2013-04-20T05:00:00Z

The three color guards represent the Mississippi Confederates, Mississippi and, of course, the Sessumses. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

The wild Mississippi was nonetheless easy to find. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

This is an accurate portrait of Mississippi in the 1940s, and it illuminates one of the difficulties in writing about the era today. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Jones tells another story, just as revealing, about when the family, which was Methodist, first moved to Michigan from Mississippi and attended a service at an all-white church one town over from theirs. James Earl Jones: A voice for the ages, aging gracefully

It is explained to Bill that Mississippi vampires do not flambé ex-girlfriends for dinner. "True Blood" recap: Were-Swayze edition 2010-06-28T12:29:00Z

He has also made donations to the Mississippi Heritage Blues Trail, a collection of historical markers honoring people, places and events in Delta blues history. Robert Plant 'Walking Into Clarksdale' on Saturday 2012-08-09T16:30:19Z

I was eager to get to the park’s marquee attraction: Ash Cave, a 700-foot-long recess cave that’s the largest east of the Mississippi. Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park, a compact natural wonder 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The photograph visualizes the now silent and unpopulated landscape of what was once 350 plantations along the west banks of the Mississippi River. In Louisiana, a Haunting Landscape 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Nearly three decades later, Mitchell’s revelation that the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a pro-segregationist state agency, had secretly assisted De La Beckwith’s defense put pressure on officials to consider another trial. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The Coltrane character for instance notes that he's called Melville and that they're aboard the Fidèle, the same name as the Mississippi steam boat on which Herman Melville's hero worked in The Confidence Man. The Brothers Bloom 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

She made the best biscuits, chowchow, fried green tomatoes and Mississippi mud cake I have ever tasted. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mississippi came in at number one, Georgia at number two and South Carolina in the number-three slot. The porn women actually want to watch 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

"Mississippi pot roast is a great change-up from your traditional pot roast game," says Nicole Johnson of OrWhateverYouDo.com. This smoked Mississippi pot roast is perfect for a chilly evening 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

“To be in Mississippi is to be in danger,” she said. The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

She was also director of Aperture West, an outreach program this side of the Mississippi, and through 2011 was co-publisher of Aperture magazine. Surrounded by photographs, a collector finds beauty in truth 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

If this scene evokes internet rumors about Louis C.K. — an executive producer of “One Mississippi” — it’s because a recent interview with Ms. Notaro encourages that reading. Louis C.K. and Tig Notaro, Sparring on the Battlefield of Art 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

They were expected to paddle 55 strokes a minute, 14 hours a day and carried an average of two bales of furs — 180 pounds total — over miles of portages between Montreal and the Mississippi. On the Water, and Into the Wild 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

As Audubon noted, there are rolling hills here, formed by a long-subsiding Mississippi Delta. Following Audubon?s Footsteps in Louisiana 2010-04-15T21:58:00Z

The majority of the 14 states that received the lowest ranking were in the South: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee all joined West Virginia in receiving grades of D+ or lower. These Are the Best and Worst States for Women's Job Equality 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Her 1955 hit "Making Believe" was on the movie soundtrack of "Mississippi Burning" that was released 33 years later. 1st female country superstar Kitty Wells dies 2012-07-16T20:32:24Z

Slim, the son of Mississippi sharecroppers, gave up the piano and turned to guitar after losing his right pinky finger in a cotton gin accident at age 13. Chicago bluesman Magic Slim dead at 75 2013-02-22T04:08:38Z

Nave said he’s frequently calling with ideas; some are good, and with others Nave relies on his Mississippi expertise to direct Lack’s enthusiasm elsewhere. NBC News chairman an unexpected figure in Mississippi news 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Dead Gaze, from Mississippi, delivered a winning mix of sludge, grunge, and forthright pop.. it was a refreshing, chaotic surprise, marking Dead Gaze as a deeply promising band. ArtsBeat: In Williamsburg, CMJ Kicks Off in a Warehouse 2010-10-20T09:19:00Z

“One Mississippi” heavily harvests Notaro’s life story to spin a plot informed by loss, family dynamics and the secrets that can arrest a family’s psychological growth in amber. The half-hour heartbreak: Amazon’s new comedies find laughs in painful places 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Cristie Codd's father called local authorities Sunday afternoon after she failed to appear in Mississippi that day and couldn't be reached, Duncan said. Police: Suspect admits destroying bodies of Food Network finalist, spouse 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

We followed that for a while, heading toward our main destination: the Mississippi. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mississippi is illiterate, unemployed, bigoted, pro-life, white, racist, homophobic, transphobic, conservative, evangelical—everything bad associated with the South, Mississippi bears the brunt of it. Don’t write off Mississippi: Before you dismiss us as “a garbage state,” listen to the queer Southerners you’re leaving behind 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The award for best new artist went to The Band Perry, a sibling trio from Mississippi. Miranda Lambert wins three prizes at country awards 2011-04-04T01:45:01Z

Now, when we play along to the film, we recognise the Mississippi. London jazz festival 2012: from Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding to John Paul Jones – what to see 2012-11-07T12:56:00Z

When asked why she visits Republican-leaning states such as Mississippi, Alabama and Alaska, where she knows she will be encounter opposition, she said: “I am their first lady, too.” Jill Biden speaks candidly about challenges of her role 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

The couple’s first garden at their Laurel, Mississippi, home measured 7 x 16 feet and included eight tomatoes, an assortment of peppers, and herbs for cooking. Raise Your Own Veggies 2010-05-28T16:19:00Z

We follow McCormick as he travels down back road after back road in rural Mississippi, knocking on doors, talking in barbershops, hanging out in pool rooms, hitting dead ends, turning his car around. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

Mud is separated from his girlfriend by the Mississippi, Ellis from his by age. Mud: Matthew McConaughey as an Outlaw in Love 2013-04-26T22:10:07Z

The Mississippi Delta was the birthplace of the segregationist movement, something I didn't know then, even though I was educated in two different segregationist schools. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

This season, as they travel in through Texas, Utah, Florida, Mississippi and New Jersey, they recruit “drag daughters” to perform with them and push against anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation that exists in certain states. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ and Thanksgiving Day Parade 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Many of these images of indigenous Americans from west of the Mississippi River will be familiar to visitors but not in this unusual form. At the Tefaf Fair, Old Masters and Powerful Women 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. White nodded supportively as he watched the boat roll down the wharf toward the barge that would take it down the wind-whipped Mississippi. New Victory for World War II PT Boat: Restored and Museum-Ready 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

The governor of Mississippi and the state’s Arts Commission named her a cultural ambassador in 2019 in part for her work with the festival, according to Meacham. Julia Reed, chronicler of Southern life and food, dies a 59 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

A public viewing was held in Las Vegas on Saturday, and King's memorial service is scheduled for Friday in Mississippi. B.B. King's daughters say guitarist was poisoned; investigation under way 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

The point was to experience the Mississippi from water level. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z

In those days, we lived and died by the assessment of someone named Samir A. Husni, a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi, who got trotted out in every article about new magazines. Wigwag: The Magazine That Lex Built 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

The book begins with its constant theme — the Mississippi’s lawless ways, its mobility and perversity — and goes on to its “discovery” by Europeans, paying caustic attention to the invaders’ appetite for other people’s land. Review | Audiobooks for your summer travels 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Years ago, in Mississippi, he repeatedly raided this modular structure, which could be reconfigured as conference rooms, bathrooms or even a ballroom. Books of The Times: ‘No Easy Day,’ by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer 2012-09-02T18:35:49Z

Wonderfully gooey, the original version of Mississippi Mud Cake is baked in a jellyroll pan and topped with an avalanche of marshmallow and chocolate. 2010-02-08T16:40:00Z

She cited her experiences trying to register black voters in Mississippi in the early `60s as a key influence. Poet-performer Jayne Cortez dies in NY at age 78 2013-01-05T22:58:09Z

By November, the supply of AB- and MAB-Chminaca still hadn’t dried up in Mississippi. Spice: Americans turn to dangerous 'synthetic marijuana' to evade drug tests 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Two years later he won best director for Midnight Express and movies followed that included The Commitments, Mississippi Burning and Evita. Baftas: stars dress for show not snow as awards hail director Ben Affleck 2013-02-10T21:57:39Z

It will envision a post-reparations America, where black Americans inhabit a sovereign nation, New Colonia, comprised of the southern states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Black America: Amazon alt-history series to depict a post-reparations US 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Garrison was working as a filmmaker for the University of Mississippi when he made “Blues Maker,” a black-and-white film released in 1969. Christian Garrison, author, filmmaker, dies in NC at age 78 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The Texas bird pepper, obtained from Dr. Samuel Brown of Natchez, Mississippi, was a Jefferson favorite. Breaking Ground at Monticello 2012-10-01T15:20:06.137Z

Washington County lies along the Mississippi on the south end of the Delta. In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Much of the French Quarter remained dry because it’s located on high ground near the Mississippi River. ‘Brian being Brian’: A unique storytelling ability connected Brian Williams with viewers, but it also led to his downfall 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

About a week before he flew to Mississippi, Farage learned that his trip was going to coincide with a Trump visit to the state, on August 25th. Nigel Farage on the Story Behind His Friendship with Trump 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

He ended up in Mississippi because his agent told the opinionated young actor to do something about the terrible conditions in the country or shut up about it, he said. Right Out of Hollywood, a Witness to History 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The outer bands of Lee, the 12th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, began dumping rain over southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi and Alabama on Friday. Tropical Storm Lee could drench Gulf Coast 2011-09-03T09:44:00Z

Oliver noted four states–Mississippi, Missouri, and the Dakotas–that now only have one abortion clinic each, adding, “Mississippi now has four times as many S’s as it does abortion clinics.” John Oliver lays bare the South’s abortion-clinic nightmare: “Mississippi now has four times as many S’s as it does abortion clinics” 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Parker was one of Britain’s most successful directors, whose diverse body of work includes “Fame,” Mississippi Burning, “The Commitments and “Angela’s Ashes.” Alan Parker, director of “Midnight Express” dies at 76 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Even east of the Mississippi, he ran into snags. ‘Audubon’s Aviary: The Final Flight’ Alights at the New-York Historical Society 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The Mississippi native established himself in Chicago's thriving blues community in the 1960s, but more recently lived in Lincoln, Neb. Blues guitarist Magic Slim dies in Pa. at age 75 2013-02-22T00:10:16Z

But the subscription plan sets Mississippi apart from other small labels. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

When the University of Mississippi’s branch of Cru received the offer, Director of Local Missions Kitty Hurdle took charge of distributing the tickets. Celebs back Mississippi theater screening of ‘Just Mercy’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Many people in Heidelberg believe, therefore, that the Neckar was the creative headwater to Twain’s Mississippi. Mark Twain Found Inspiration in Germany (Though the Language Eluded Him) 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Wayne Lamar Jackson was born in Memphis on Nov. 24, 1941, and he grew up across the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark., according to his website. Wayne Jackson, trumpeter of the Memphis Horns, dies at 74 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Roughly 25,000 people a year visit Faulkner's antebellum home, Rowan Oak, which is now owned by the University of Mississippi. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

The music festival takes place at Tom Lee Park, which sits alongside the Mississippi River. The Black Keys lead Beale Street music fest lineup 2013-02-28T18:46:10Z

Founded as the colonial capital of French Louisiana in 1702, Mobile was taken over by Spain during the American Revolution; the city finally was seized in 1813 and added to the Mississippi Territory. Mardi Gras in Mobile — where it started 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Steven Johnson will be part of a big party that begins Thursday in Greenwood, the small Mississippi Delta town, where Johnson had been playing his music on a street corner shortly before his death. Salutes mark bluesman Robert Johnson's centennial 2011-05-05T21:22:08Z

“That was the pinnacle of what it meant to be a slave — the feelings, the brutality. That one for me was it,” said the 47-year-old of Gautier, Mississippi, resident about the 2013 film. “Birth of a Nation” is latest of several films on genre | The Seattle Times 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association, a legislative advocate that represents 3,500 beef producers around the state, supported the passage of the state law. Don’t call it a burger! Meat industry fights back as interest grows in plant-based food 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Whit Waide, a political science professor at Mississippi State whose family has been in Mississippi since statehood, said, “I would give up this job if it would mean a new state flag.” In Mississippi, defenders of state’s Confederate-themed flag dig in 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Born in Mississippi and having lived in Chicago and New York, Lacey is not shy about sharing her opinions. Faces to watch: Remember these authors and their books 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

I wanted it to stand for Jackson, Mississippi. Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

She was a Top 13 finalist at age 16, as a junior at Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven. Murray wins Miss Mississippi crown 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

JACKSON, Miss. — Tate Taylor, the Mississippi native who directed "The Help," said Monday that he'll make a biographical feature film about James Brown in the state, starting this fall. James Brown biopic to be filmed in Mississippi 2013-08-26T17:46:54Z

"This campaign is about ordinary folks doing extraordinary things, sort of like America," Santorum said, just before Mississippi was called for him. AP: Rick Santorum sweeps Southern states 2012-03-14T02:53:00Z

When Mitchell publicized the matter, the Mississippi Legislature appropriated money that led to a fruitful find. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The last ferry home across the Mississippi leaves at midnight, and if they miss it they risk being trapped in a world of dangerous and alluring enchantments. Movie Review: ‘Tchoupitoulas,’ a Documentary Set in New Orleans 2012-12-07T01:15:08Z

Program coordinator Cheryl Faries always dreamed of creating a school similar to that of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, which focused on developing an academic curriculum based on personal experiences of the students. Program aims to improve literacy through hip-hop 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

I noted particularly the fixed hum on his end of the line — the same rotary-phone hum I always heard when I called my grandmother in Mississippi. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The River Music Experience, which opened in 2004, acquired the instrument in 2009 in order to heighten the institution's role as a nexus for music along the Mississippi. Jazz: Piano a rare find in Bix's hometown 2011-05-02T21:50:00Z

Winfrey, 66, was born into poverty in Mississippi and raised in Milwaukee and Tennessee. Oprah Winfrey donates $10 million for coronavirus relief 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

She was born to unmarried teenagers, Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee, and raised at various times by a grandmother, her mother, and her father and stepmother in Mississippi, Wisconsin and Tennessee. Winfrey promises to spill family secret Monday 2011-01-21T22:21:26Z

Meanwhile, for decades, Southern media outlets and public institutions shunned “Coming of Age in Mississippi” and Anne Moody herself. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

The documentary follows Meredith from his decision to challenge the University of Mississippi’s segregationist policies and then a governor who personally tried to refuse to admit him. James Meredith film weighs ‘complicated’ civil rights figure 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

The historian Douglas Brinkley, who wrote “The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast,” said he also had no plans to write a spill book. Publishers Ready Books on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 2010-07-20T21:12:00Z

“They need to fully disclose exactly how this entire fiasco happened in the next issue of the magazine,” said Samir Husni, director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi’s journalism school. Rolling Stone magazine has often thrived on controversy. Is this time different? 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Overnight, people and money fled to the eastern part of the county, far from the Mississippi River that defined the Bluff City. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

He puts it best: “In Mississippi, the more layers of the onion I peel, the more I’m standing in a mess of onion.” ‘God’ll Cut You Down,’ a True Crime Book by John Safran 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Many of us are like animals in captivity,” said Kelly Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Mississippi. Could our efforts to avoid anxiety only be making it worse? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

"The problem with Playboy is it not only lost its powerful interviews, but it lost its lead," said Samir Husni, director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi School of Journalism. Playboy puts entire 57 years of magazines online 2011-05-19T11:17:15Z

To determine the safest distance between the RV and the car up ahead, I counted my Mississippis: one second per each 10 mph. For a newbie driver, the RV was her classroom and her subject matter 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Knowell grew up in a shotgun house on a Mississippi plantation. Quilts With a Sense of Place, Stitched in Oakland 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The difficulty of an HIV cure became particularly apparent with the now famous case of the Mississippi baby, born to an HIV-positive mother. HIV breakthrough reveals virus hidden in immune system cells 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

JACKSON, Miss. — The last time I visited this Southern city was in June 1964, Mississippi Freedom summer, when Northern college kids were traveling south to register voters, though that wasn’t why I was here. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

In launching the series last year, Amazon characterized “One Mississippi” as a “traumedy,” which was more accurate back then than it is today. Amazon's "One Mississippi" exudes calm confidence in its second season 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

“We welcome competition,” said Andy Berry, executive vice president of the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association. Don’t call it a burger! Meat industry fights back as interest grows in plant-based food 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Rock icon Ike Turner is about to get recognition in his Mississippi hometown nearly three years after his death. Ike Turner focus of weekend celebration in Miss. 2010-08-05T15:52:00Z

He announced the project in Jackson during the annual meeting of the Mississippi Economic Council, a state chamber of commerce. Grammy Museum branching out with site in Miss. 2011-04-21T19:41:08Z

One of the first groups was the "Prancing J-Settes" at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Prancing Elites spread message of acceptance in Oxygen docu-series 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

So many poor Southerners underwent the procedure that it became known as a “Mississippi appendectomy.” The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

The furnishings are completely authentic, as Welty decided to bequeath the home to the state of Mississippi in 1986, well before she died. Six female writers’ homes you can tour, including the one where Alcott penned ‘Little Women’ 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Almost 150 years after Mark Twain sent Jim down the Mississippi River, we still can’t decide whether that portrayal was a breakthrough or another inscription of racism. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

A county judge in Mississippi imposed the sanctions last month. Writer Nevada Barr sanctioned for lying under oath 2011-05-02T18:03:15Z

An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

Taking a route through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, I set out to find some of these spots and discovered that where juke joints still exist jubilance remains. Cultured Traveler: Driving the Juke Joint Trail 2013-05-17T18:45:50Z

It was his mother, Martha — a former Goldwyn Girl from Mississippi — who insisted on a traditional German education in music. While you're 'Singin' in the Rain' at the Hollywood Bowl, he's keeping the musicians in sync 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

This clashes radically with the author’s initial idea of Mississippi as a benighted police state. ‘God’ll Cut You Down,’ a True Crime Book by John Safran 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

"You know what African mothers tell their children every day? 'Be grateful for what you have, because there are fat children starving in Mississippi.'" New 'Daily Show' host Trevor Noah heralds a new frontier in TV: diversity 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

She said receiving an Oscar for philanthropy is "unimaginable" given her humble beginnings in Mississippi. Oscar's tumultuous week ends with Governors Awards 2011-11-13T11:49:18Z

Judges called Snowdrops "a hypnotically seductive and compelling exploration of moral danger", while Franklin's novel is "a poignant suspense novel drenched in the languid atmosphere of small-town Mississippi", they said. Males in the frame as Gold Dagger shortlist revealed 2011-08-19T10:52:59Z

The pair, now both 28, graduated from Mississippi State in 2015. Their Love Story Began When He Asked for a Pencil 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Wander through grassy meadows and over rocky outcrop to waterfalls, ascend through a forest of balsam firs to the tallest mountain east of the Mississippi or tackle the Appalachian Trail. Life’s more than a beach. Four mountain towns to visit this summer. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

The University of Mississippi announced this week that Ford will serve as senior fiction writer at the school. Pulitzer-winning writer Ford to teach at Ole Miss 2011-01-05T22:05:16Z

Before covering your skin with any repellent, try a “use test,” said Robert Brodell, a professor and chair of the dermatology department at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. How to get rid of mosquitoes, and other tips for dealing with these pesky insects 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Some of her dexterous poetry touches on the autobiographical details of her life, and she is the author of a previous memoir, “Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.” ‘Memorial Drive’ Powerfully Recalls a Southern Childhood and a Mother’s Murder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

Anyway, he went on: “I wrote the song about a mythical riverboat, cruising on a mythical river, in a mythical time. Perhaps, the setting was ‘back in time’ on the Mississippi River. ‘Proud Mary’ has a ‘Proud Mary’ Problem 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

If you’re east of the Mississippi and craving a fresh beer from the other side of the country, no need to hop on a plane. On Tap: New Craft Beer Outposts 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The case resembles that of the “Mississippi baby”, a child in the US who was infected at birth in 2010 and treated until she was 18 months old. Child treated for HIV at birth is healthy nine years on without further treatment 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

These included Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee, only two of which are in the South. The “real” war on women?: Wisconsin lawmaker pushing awful anti-trans bathroom bill supposedly to “protect our women and girls” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Strength shifted to prisons, and the brand spread to midwestern and southern states like Mississippi, where the Royals are now one of the largest and most violent gangs in the state. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Visitors looking for an inn near Jackson Square and those who like to explore: Walk to the free ferry across the Mississippi River to the Algiers Point neighborhood. Where To Stay in New Orleans 2010-03-31T19:10:00Z

As the hearing began, Kenan Thompson, playing the committee’s chairman, Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, offered some momentous remarks. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Takes On the Jan. 6 Committee 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

The sign is part of a memorial effort by a Mississippi civil rights group and has been repeatedly vandalized, most recently in August 2018. Fraternity students face investigation after posing with guns in front of Emmett Till memorial 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

In 2019, heavy rain and snow runoff flowed down the Mississippi River from the Midwest, inundating the Louisiana coast with fresh water and killing millions of oysters. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

And its history gets an important update in a richly varied exhibition called “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration” at the Mississippi Museum of Art here. Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Set mostly in Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, all five examine to some degree what had and hadn’t changed in the south since the Jim Crow days. When John Grisham Movies Were King 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Seeing Mississippi Sight Unseen From its opening pages, “Southern Cross the Dog” has all the markers of a novel written in the finest Southern gothic tradition. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

At 17, I spent a summer laying hot asphalt on highways in Mississippi. Q&A: John Grisham – ‘My most embarrassing moment? It involved the passing of gas in church’ 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

I grew up with fig trees at my grandparents' house in Oxford, Mississippi, but for some reason, no one ate them raw, at least not that I recall. Celebrate fig season with the easiest, creamiest homemade ice cream you've ever tasted 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

He says burial will be in her native Natchez, Miss. Douglas grew up in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. Mississippi author Ellen Douglas dies at 91 2012-11-08T01:46:07Z

But no matter where you’re from, these cookies remind you of the beloved pecan candy tradition from New Orleans, on the Mississippi River, where sugar cane and nuts were cultivated in abundance. Our Best Cookies 2010-12-01T17:40:00Z

The queen was Anna Grace Hallmark, a 20-year-old business major at the University of Mississippi and a Tyler native. The Rose Queen of Texas 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

We played cards for a few hours, crossing the steaming Mississippi River in a kind of torpor. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s about half an hour south of Tuscaloosa, an hour east of the Mississippi line. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Tuesday evening, during the tally of votes to officially nominate Trump, a Mississippi delegate sat in her seat and read the Bible on her iPad. This is what it feels like at the Republican convention in Cleveland 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

In “Men We Reaped,” another crucial book of this moment, Jesmyn Ward writes about losing five young black men in her small Mississippi town within four years, her beloved brother among them. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Last spring, American Cruise Lines, which already operates the Queen of the Mississippi, launched the paddle wheel ship America, offering 185 passengers free shore excursions, nightly musical entertainment and an onboard historian. More Cruises on the Mississippi 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

It was a summer, Mr. Watson writes, that “brought out the best in America” but “the worst in Mississippi.” Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z

I read and reread almost everything Mark Twain wrote but principally “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Life on the Mississippi.” John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Emmett Till, whose 1955 lynching in Mississippi spurred black people into action more than 60 years ago, is a spirit guide in the play, which also recalls the deaths of other black men. A new play opening in Philadelphia is exploring the final moments of the life of Trayvon Martin 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Early blues performer Bo Carter often performed with influential string band the Mississippi Sheiks. The 19 greatest double entendre songs 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Louisiana is my ancestor and the great mother, the Mississippi River, bore him slowly, out of sediment and over eons. Patter and Patois 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

It is one of the most densely populated areas west of the Mississippi. Making music an instrument for change: How NEA-funded HOLA points kids toward a better path 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

All the higher-risk wells were inspected in six states - Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Ohio and Texas. Feds aren’t inspecting 4 in 10 higher-risk wells 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

At Mardi Gras this year, Ms. Schwartzs’s ashes are to be carried in the Ste. Anne’s parade and tipped into the Mississippi. Eugenie Schwartz, Artist From New Orleans, Dies at 64 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

His career spanned both film and TV, and he subsequently appeared in Cool Hand Luke, Ghosts of Mississippi and Murder, She Wrote. M.A.S.H. Star Wayne Rogers Dies at 82 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Outside the blogosphere, however, the success of Mississippi Roast has been a quiet one. The Improbable Rise of Mississippi Roast 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

“The Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area has happened because of the efforts of lots and lots of people attending dozens and dozens of meetings,” Brown said. The Delta gains national recognition 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

But a little boy with a distended belly sitting on the dirt floor of a shack in the Mississippi delta may have done more to change Robert Kennedy than Martin Luther King ever did. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

But not as far as the authorities in Mississippi are concerned – a warrant has been issued in the state for Tim Dog's arrest, on suspicion of faking his own death. Rapper Tim Dog accused of faking own death 2013-05-23T10:38:56Z

She is the founder, with her husband, Richard, of Square Books, a venerable independent bookstore that took a perch on the town square in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1979. Debut novel by Lisa Howorth is a Southern mosaic 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

And one day, I just remember asking, like, "Why is it that you all have to fix Mississippi?" Stacey Abrams: Being a black woman in politics isn’t ‘some fatal diagnosis’ 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

And thank you, Mississippi, for bringing Charles to me. Loyalty takes butler from poor Nepal village to NY 2010-06-02T12:41:00Z

Pardon me, but what is “Byhalia, Mississippi” doing at the Kennedy Center? Review | I’m not rejoicing over a play produced by the Kennedy Center. Here’s why. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Brown was seen struggling to keep up with fellow New Edition members during a dance routine before leaving the stage in a video posted online of the group’s July 2 show in Southaven, Mississippi. Brown exits New Edition tour to focus on health 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

At 21 he participated in the Freedom Rides, was assaulted by a mob and spent a month at Parchman Farm, the notorious Mississippi prison William Faulkner called “destination doom.” Jon Meacham on John Lewis, the Legend and the Man 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

GULFPORT, Miss. — Professional wrestler Jack Swagger is scheduled for a June 25 trial in Mississippi on a charge of driving under the influence. WWE wrestler Swagger to stand trial on DUI charge 2013-04-11T13:47:11Z

The singer Bryan Adams canceled his concert in Mississippi in protest against what he called an “anti-L.G.B.T.” law, and the actress Sharon Stone decided not to film a movie there. North Carolina and Mississippi See Tourist Backlash After L.G.B.T. Laws 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Kennedy Brewer was just a few years older when he was sentenced to death for the brutal abduction, assault and murder of his girlfriend’s three-year old daughter in Noxubee county, Mississippi. The Innocence Files: a shocking Netflix series on wrongful convictions 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

In September, the United States Department of Commerce determined that Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi were suffering “a catastrophic regional fishery disaster,” making businesses in those states eligible for federal assistance. Gulf Oysters Are Dying, Putting a Southern Tradition at Risk 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

To see what the fuss was about, I set out to make Mississippi Roast myself. The Improbable Rise of Mississippi Roast 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Pie in the Sky Marlene Stubler, owner of Pie in the Sky Pie Co., serves her "hot and sloppy" Mississippi Mud Pie in a bowl with ice cream on top. Top 10 Places for Pie in Texas 2010-11-24T19:21:00Z

He frequented the town as a lawyer, and delivered a speech in 1840 for the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison in a building near the bank of the Mississippi. Strolling Old Halls and Streets With Ghosts of Civil War 2010-05-13T21:56:00Z

Cell phones look strange in Oxford, Mississippi, but decay doesn’t. A Young Black Boy Looks at a Photograph of a Young Black Boy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think there was a start-up west of the Mississippi that didn’t reach out to me, and that was flattering,” he said. From Moguls to Mortals 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

Walker Percy, the legendary novelist — born in Alabama, raised in Mississippi, lived in Louisiana, child and grandchild of suicides — said Christenberry’s photographs were a “poetic evocation of a haunted countryside.” After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The museum includes eight galleries that explore the experience of African-Americans in Mississippi from the end of the Civil War until today. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

My grandfather left a small town along the Mississippi River for New Orleans, and settled in what became the Lower Ninth Ward. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

Both women play black maids in 1960s Mississippi who dare to go public about the bigotry they've endured. `The Help,' Dujardin win at lively SAG Awards 2012-01-30T11:50:22Z