W. Ralph Eubanks

The past and the present exist within the frame of a photograph, as well as the photographer’s vision. And so it is with images of the Mississippi Delta. My essay on seeing the Delta in photographs. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/a-way-o…

The program was part of the 2026Being Human Festival and was supported by the National Humanities Council. mshumanities.org/words-on-water/

Today the “Words on Water” with the Mississippi Humanities Council program hit the water, and it was a beautiful day to be in a canoe on the Mississippi River.

Nearly a year since she was abruptly fired by President Donald Trump as librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden stood before hundreds of cheering members of the literary community as she received a Champion of Writers Award from the Authors Guild on Monday. apnews.com/article/carla-…

And you can also listen to this conversation in Apple Podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

“I am trying to get people to see not only the Delta, but also the way that the Delta is this mirror to America. But there is a veil over the mirror. If you lift off the veil and then you look closely, you do see America staring back at you.” youtube.com/watch?v=EKsM_h…

The full tour schedule will post soon!

The Archbishop of Washington D.C. just said it directly. “In Catholic teaching, this is not a just war.” This isn’t a foreign pope making diplomatic statements from Rome. This is the Archbishop of the American capital. The man who leads the Catholic Church in the city where the war was decided, where Congress was gaveled into silence, where the Pentagon threatened the Vatican’s ambassador for daring to disagree. He just told Washington — from Washington — that what they are doing fails the moral test their own faith demands. The just war doctrine has four criteria. A just cause. Right intention. Last resort. Proportional means. Cardinal McElroy is saying this war fails them. He joins Pope Leo XIV who called it unjust. Who called Trump’s threats unacceptable. Who the Pentagon summoned and threatened with the Avignon Papacy for saying so. They threatened the Pope. They didn’t silence him. They can’t silence the Archbishop either.

Many thanks to my fabulous agent Tanya McKinnon, and my editor at @SimonBooks, Yahdon Israel aka “Nelson Riddle” aka “Norman Whitfield”.

This is an idea that I write about in "When It's Darkness on the Delta" in the chapter "Hunger Has No Color Line," excerpted here. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/08/b...

H. Jack Geiger of the Delta Health Center prescribed food for patients to be purchased at Black-owned grocery stores and paid for it with a mix of federal dollars and grants meant for pharmaceuticals. So the idea of food as medicine is not new. nytimes.com/2026…... 21/

Come to Clarksdale, MS Friday for Thacker Mountain Radio! Music by blues legend Bobby Rush, Twurt Chamberlain, and Paul Tate and the Yallowbushwackers. I’ll be there as well, talking with host Jim Dees about my book “When It’s Darkness on the Delta.” Bring a lawn chair!

The Black Congresswoman They DON’T Teach You About Traces Barbara Jordan’s rise from Texas congresswoman to national icon, highlighting her powerful voice, integrity, and influence on U.S. politics. youtube.com/watch?v=vwVw6P…

The incessant posting of untruths day after day has. alas, killed off the fun that used to embody April Fools' Day.

podbean.com/eas/pb-br4yw-1… A @NBGPodcastNet program. @Wralpheubanks #blacktwitter #politics #podcast

"The looming question the Mississippi Delta faces is, how can its people and policy makers alter their gaze to look toward a future for a region known largely for being the birthplace of the blues as well as a land of rich soil and poor people?" -- @WRalphEubanks oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/a-way-o… | @oxfordamerican

“The song shares the line with the title of W. Ralph Eubanks’s recent book, “When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land,” as well as the title of a…song that painted the region’s overt racism with nostalgic hues.” oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/lucinda…

Tracy Kidder has died. What I will always cherish about his work is his significant ability to show how a group of people--be they colleagues or schoolchildren--move toward something, be it a deadline or the end of a school year, and what we learn about them along the way.

“Publishers have maintained a firm line against A.I.-generated text and images, and require authors to attest that their work is original in their publishing contracts. But few have clear policies or measures to prevent users from writing with A.I.” nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…

“The original subtitle of this book was "An American Reckoning." And I used that as the working subtitle because as I wrote about the Delta, I wanted to make sure that I didn't forget that I was writing a book about America and not just about Mississippi.” agwaterdesk.bluelena.io/social/fe131d7…

Dr. Don Cole is a retired UM professor of mathematics, administrator & LOU community leader. Come see film created by Dr. Castel Sweet & Antonio Tarrell at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, 3/3 in Fulton Chapel. There will be snacks & a reception afterward in the Union.