The Senegal River in Senegal during a flood; much of the floodplain that is inundated in this image will be planted with crops as the flood recedes. Most people will imagine a good river as a blue ...

I have a confession to make — I like country music and philosophy too — an odd pair of likes, huh? My father-in-law Leon Knight would always enjoy playing bluegrass music and he even liked honky-tonk ...

This story was originally posted in our sister paper, the Village Voice. Muddy Waters Restored in Rolling Fork: The March tornado that destroyed the Mississippi hamlet near the birthplace of blues ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few figures in American music loom as large as Muddy Waters. A transformative force in the evolution of modern blues, Waters bridged the acoustic traditions of the Mississippi Delta ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing changes to the way it draws down Green Peter Reservoir, hoping to improve conditions for imperiled salmon while avoiding major impacts to city drinking ...