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Author W. Ralph Eubanks reflects on the Mississippi Delta

by Ag & Water Desk MediaMarch 4, 2026March 4, 2026

This week, essayist and author Ralph Eubanks discusses his new book When It’s Darkness on the Delta, exploring how policy failures helped turn the fertile Mississippi Delta into one of America’s most persistently poor and unequal regions.

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