JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – With the deadly aftermath of Texas flooding on many Americans’ minds, few alive today remember the unprecedented flooding that spanned across Mississippi and six other states.

In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history. The ...

The spring of 1927 gave residents in the Mississippi Valley a special reason to play and sing sad songs, for that was when a great flood inundated millions of acres, destroyed thousands of buildings, ...

Introduction -- Modern overflow -- A Northern army of relief -- Cross talk in the press -- Bessie's eclogue -- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville -- William Faulkner and the machine age watershed -- ...

Down the line: blues brilliance, displacement, and living under the shadow of levees -- Burning waters rise: Richard Wright's Blues Voice and the double environmental burden of race -- Racialized ...