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

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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 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.

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.