by Aallyah Wright | Amplify The Sip, Legacy
In Vicksburg, Mississippi, everyone owned something, at least in Sirobè Carstafhnur’s family. Her great-grandpa had a snowball truck. Her grandparents and her Uncle Earl owned their own stores, too. Even though entrepreneurship runs in her blood, Carstafhnur, an...
by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Legacy
The first time A’Lelia Bundles visited the hamlet of Delta, Louisiana, in 1980, there were no signs welcoming her to the birthplace of her great-great grandmother, Sarah Breedlove. Neither was there any mention of Madam C.J. Walker, the name Breedlove took after...
by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Homegrown
On the backroads that stretch between Indianola and Jackson, the weight of what Mississippi once was — the long rows of cotton, the silence of fields that once demanded everything from the people who worked them — still hangs in the languid air. Out of those...
by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Homegrown
Clarksdale, Mississippi sits at the crossroads of memory and myth, a place where cotton and soybean fields stretch toward the horizon and the blues clubs still hum. But behind the stories about dirty deals made at dusty crossroads, you’ll find the work of real people...
by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Homegrown
“I always had a sense of restlessness and a sense of curiosity and dreaming about life beyond,” Sansone says, echoing the wanderlust he’s shared with generations of Mississippi musicians who have taken their talents to new zip codes. “In my dream world, I was...
by Jim Beaugez | Amplify The Sip, Featured, Resilience
Mississippi’s Gulf Coast was ground zero for the worst impacts of the historic 2005 storm. To leave or not to leave — in hurricane season, that is often the most consequential question anyone can answer. In the best-case scenario, staying put during a...
