Our Nation’s Food Dilemma
For three decades high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and several other health issues have increased in the Delta. It has been said that we are in the middle of a “food desert,” a term which I have never fully understood the meaning of exactly. If obesity is everywhere you look here in the area, what […]
Sarita Simmons
On a Mission to Uplift the Delta Sen. Sarita Simmons grew up in Cleveland in a family prominently involved in the political world. Her mother, Rosie Simmons, made history as the first African American Circuit Clerk in Bolivar County since Reconstruction, a position she held for twenty years. Her father, Willie Simmons, dedicated twenty-six years […]