In 1948, Mary Holmes saw a need and decided she and her husband Carey Holmes would fill it. Black workers at the cotton gin in the heart of Bentonia, a town that sits on a stretch of U.S. 49 in Yazoo ...
Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends as he seeks to keep a singular American art form thriving Jim Beaugez Photographs by Timothy Ivy The worn hands and nubby fingernails of Bentonia, ...