Frequent Delta Air Lines flyers are familiar with the palette of its airplane cabins. Dark grays and brighter blues with red highlights ... dark hues of its existing color palette, an internal ...

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to a blues style that links most directly to the work songs and field hollers of slaves on Southern plantations. The slaves brought the musical traditions of their ...

Company leaders hope the planes retain their recognizability as quintessentially “Delta” while the dozens of tiny tweaks and refreshes create an impression of something new.

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...