Delta Blues Museum has won a place among ten organizations across the U.S. voted as “Best Music Museum” in USA Today’s annual “10BEST” Readers’ Choice Poll, the publication announced today. The historic Clarksdale institution...
Special to The Mississippi Monitor The site of Vera Mae Pigee’s Beauty Salon on Ashton Street in Clarksdale represents one of the most meaningful yet often understated chapters in the local Civil Rights Movement. Although the building at 407 Ashton Street no...
Special to The Mississippi Monitor For more than 150 years, Coahoma County has been shaped by vibrant Black communities whose influence reaches far beyond the Mississippi Delta. Their labor powered the farms that drove the region’s economy, their creativity...
By Nathan Duff, Delta State University Delta State University is proud to announce that Edward McCadney, Procurement Contract Specialist, has been accepted into the 2026 cohort of the Bolivar County L.E.A.D. program. McCadney was selected based on...
By Nathan Duff, Delta State University Delta State University has announced the hiring of Kelli Davis Williams as its new Director of Marketing, bringing more than two decades of experience in marketing, communications, tourism, publishing, and strategic...
By Nathan Duff, Delta State University Delta State University is recognizing the outstanding response and cooperation shown by the Delta State University Police Department and dozens of utility linemen who converged on Bolivar County following the recent...
