Ground Zero Biloxi is adding two more floors of entertainment, featuring photographs and memorabilia to combine Biloxi ...

In the most hotly contested municipal race in Mississippi, both political parties are bringing in state and national figures ...

We begin our Memorial Day special with acclaimed director Ryan Coogler about his latest film Sinners, which is set to be one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Starring Michael B. Jordan, the ...

The birthplace of the Blues — and much of American music — lies in Mississippi’s northwest corner.

The Warner Brothers movie "Sinners" is introducing to a new generation to the importance of blues and juke joints in a 1930s segregated United States. The big picture: Black history is facing attack ...

As I drive my rented Dodge Hornet south on Highway 61 across the flat Mississippi Delta, the region’s famous native son B.B. King croons “Why I Sing the Blues” on the radio. Music that sprung from ...

The free premiere takes place May 7 at Blues City Cafe ... "Hellhounds on My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson" (2000) focused on the influence of the short-lived Delta bluesman who was ...

The director had just done the Blues Trail through the Mississippi Delta, talking to blues artists and learning the history behind the music, so Beachler decided to do the same. “I wanted to be ...

I went to Dockery Plantation in the Mississippi Delta, which is thought to be maybe ... You know, Ludwig was there with me on the Blues Trail, and his father was there with him.

And despite his background — growing up in Linköping, Sweden, in the 1980s — Göransson was practically baptized in American blues music. His father worshipped guitarists from the Delta and ...