http://mtc.vox.com/library/posts/tags/mississippi+delta/page/1/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... en Vox Wed, 07 May 2008 05:52:07 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mississippi delta http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/intern-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/intern-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/intern-1.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 07 May 2008 05:52:07 -0700 Part Two of the MTC 2007 Summer Intern film. Watch Part One here. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/intern-1.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f72d930004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> money mississippi greenwood mississippi delta summer internship lauryn smith mississippi teacher corps ashley johnson emmit till http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-delta.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-delta.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-delta.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:09:03 -0700 Working on a Google map of the Mississippi Delta. Here is a short film (photos and music) I made about the Delta last year: <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-delta.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48d0aaacf0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mississippi delta http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/old-school-disco.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/old-school-disco.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/old-school-disco.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:21:04 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cdf9ff10002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cdf9ff10002-50si" alt="Disco" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> "Old School Disco" with a basketball court on one side. Photo was taken in 2003, outside of Belzoni, MS. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/old-school-disco.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cdfa0520002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mississippi delta juke joint http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/money-ms.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/money-ms.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/money-ms.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:31:27 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398e0f44d0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398e0f44d0004-50si" alt="Bryant&#39;s Store in Money, MS" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This is all that remains of Bryant's Store in Money, MS. Fourteen-year-old African-American Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, for saying "Bye, baby" to Carolyn Bryant as he left this store in 1955. Bryant, a white woman whose h... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/money-ms.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398e0f4d10004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> money mississippi civil rights movement mississippi delta emmett till http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/two-weeks-left.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/two-weeks-left.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/two-weeks-left.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:54:05 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c22523f3adf21900d41449e3216a47.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900d41449e3216a47-50si" alt="Delta" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c22523f3adf21900d09e80146bbe2b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900d09e80146bbe2b-50si" alt="Store" /></a> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c22523f3adf21900d09e8014cdbe2b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900d09e8014cdbe2b-50si" alt="Sky" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Last Saturday, second-year Ashley Johnson and I showed Lauryn Smith, the fabulous MTC intern, around the Mississippi Delta. We toured Greenwood and Money and parts in between. Money is the small town where Emmit Till was tortured and murdered (i... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/two-weeks-left.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900cd973e44524cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> money greenwood mississippi delta lauryn smith mississippi teacher corps ashley johnson emmit till http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-mississippi-delta.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-mississippi-delta.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-mississippi-delta.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 May 2007 07:20:04 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/video/6a00c22523f3adf21900d414368c6d6a47.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900d414368c6d6a47-50si" alt="The Mississippi Delta" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This is a short (50 sec.) video I put together as part of a larger project I'm working on: <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/the-mississippi-delta.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900d41438ec673c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> eric clapton robert johnson mississippi delta http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/delta-education.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/delta-education.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/delta-education.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 May 2007 08:49:29 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/audio/6a00c22523f3adf21900d09e690b38be2b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c22523f3adf21900d09e690b38be2b-50si" alt="Delta Education 2" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/delta-education.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900d4142ebab4685e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> npr greenwood mississippi delta elizabeth savage indianola ben guest ashley johnson sandra knispel