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A Mississippi Exhibition of Black Art, Grief, and Joy – Scalawag

The soil in Mississippi is Black Belt soil in more ways than one. Fertile, fecund, dark, and nutritious, the soil is home to corn, soybeans, and cotton. Its thick-trunked forests root deep fingers into the Delta.  This rich land is also Black land—independent of what any deeds say. More than one-third of the state’s population is Black, and in 1910, they owned...