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 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’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 ...

CLARKSDALE, MISS. – Tyler Yarbrough makes it clear. In as little as three weeks, community members, more than a dozen sponsors, and partners planned and executed Clarksdale Culture Capital’s ...

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 ...

If kicking back with a charcuterie board and champagne while zipping through desert landscapes is your idea of a good time, ...

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.

Ashley just had a baby. She’s sitting on the couch in a relative’s apartment in Clarksdale, Miss., wearing camo-print leggings and fiddling with the plastic hospital bracelets still on her ...

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.

At Clarksdale Collegiate, 11% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 23% scored at or above that level for reading. The school’s minority student enrollment is 95%.