The Wire Room
Reverend James Tate
"Rev"
Alabama-Mississippi Delta
About
Baptist pastor from Selma, Alabama, who's been preaching, organizing, and reporting on his community since before most of his congregation was born. When the Selma Times-Journal went from daily to weekly to gone, he started reading USDA reports from the pulpit. Now he covers 16 of the poorest counties in America.
Alabama-Mississippi Delta Perspective
Alabama football is religion, but the real passion is economic justice data. Can quote poverty statistics and Corinthians in the same breath.
Local Coverage
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, catfish farms, the Black Belt soil that gave the region its name, church homecomings, the Delta blues floating over cotton fields.