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- Coastal Mississippi, a taxpayer-funded tourism bureau, is tasked with marketing the entire Gulf Coast as a destination for Jackson, Hancock and Harrison Counties. Credit: Tim Isbell/Mississippi Today
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Infighting, allegations of vote stacking clouds Mississippi’s largest tourism bureau
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,07/06/22-2:56PM , 1,140 Reads 8,192 Statewide
The state’s largest tourism bureau is once again caught in the crosshairs of infighting by members of the Harrison County Board of Supervisors.
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- U.S.Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (6th from left) and U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (second right) with Black farmers in the Delta involved in the Pitts Farm lawsuit, during a meeting at the Mississippi Center for Justice in Indianola, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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U.S. Labor Secretary assures Black Delta workers his office will combat racist hiring practices used by white farmers
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,07/01/22-11:34AM , 1,170 Reads 16,336 Statewide
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Black farm workers that his office would combat the racist wage and hiring practices by white farm owners during his first visit to the Mississippi Delta Thursday.
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- Andrew Johnson, a farmer of Indianola, heading out to plow a field in preparation for soy bean planting, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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Exploited: White Delta farm owners are underpaying and pushing out Black workers
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,06/29/22-1:56PM , 1,178 Reads 14,449 Statewide
A Mississippi Today investigation found at least five Delta farms paid their primarily Black local workforce less money per hour than temporary workers from other countries – most often, white men from South Africa.

The new crop of workers arrived with clipped accents and small khaki shorts.
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- A CSX Transport freight train passes through Bay St. Louis along tracks that could one day host an Amtrak passenger route. Credit: Sara DiNatale/Mississippi Today
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Gulf Coast train route: Amtrak heads to mediation with access to new traffic data
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,06/13/22-4:56PM , 3,280 Reads 20,807 Statewide
A federal board has ruled freight rail company CSX must share previously unseen traffic data with Amtrak as the two move toward mediation over the future of the proposed Gulf Coast train route.
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