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  • REPORTS
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Alexandra Watts

Alexandra Watts

Season 9 - On The Ground with Report for America

Episode 8: Finding Robert Johnson in the Mississippi Delta

The origins of Blues music is a complex weave of traditions, and the genre echoes suffering and endurance...

Sep 23, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN GREENVILLE, MISS

Helping new generations of Mississippians discover the legacy of the blues

GREENVILLE, Miss. — I recently moved here to the heart and soul of the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace...

Oct 17, 2019
ON THE GROUND IN SUMNER, MISS.

What the Emmett Till case taught me about journalism and Mississippi’s unfinished history

SUMNER, Mississippi — The courthouse where Emmett Till’s murderers were acquitted has been restored to look like it...

Nov 15, 2018
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