On a reporting trip, Here & Now's Chris Bentley and Peter O'Dowd traversed the Blues Trail in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

It has always frustrated me that national media outlets place so much focus on Clarksdale, Miss., as a capital of the blues while giving no attention to nearby Helena. Give those Mississippians credit ...

Clarksdale lost its only grocery store, a Kroger, in 2017, and although residents wanted another big box store to take its place, Tyler Yarborough, the director of Mississippi Delta programs for ...

CLARKSDALE — Ryan Coogler's latest movie "Sinners" tells a powerful tale of love and hate, blending science fiction with poignant reflections of reality, all set against the backdrop of a 1930's ...

Clarksdale’s unexpected moment in the spotlight has galvanized a number of young Black residents, some of whom successfully lobbied the director, Ryan Coogler, to visit last week and screen ...

There’s no active movie theater in the small town. The Delta Cinema closed in 2003, one of a string of closures of downtown businesses that year, the Clarksdale Press Register reported ...

“Clarksdale is on its way back, but it ain’t coming back in a form that the older generations like my mom and dad saw it. It’s coming back through arts, culture, and film,” Houston said.

Clarksdale Police Chief Whit Reed said homicides decreased from 11 to 3 this past year. “If you start going back into the 2000s, (crime) was bad. Then we did a big federal project, and it decreased.

Clarksdale is about 155 miles northwest of Jackson, Mississippi and about 80 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee. USA TODAY reached out to Yarbrough and Coogler's team for comment.

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi - Clarksdale didn't just provide history and blues for director and writer Ryan Coogler's hit movie about art, Jim Crow and vampires. One of the Mississippi Delta town's ...

Yarbrough, who has been organizing since high school, was born and raised in Clarksdale. It is about 155 miles northwest of Jackson, Mississippi and about 80 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee.