The Grand Opening Celebration of Water/Ways Ping & Super Chikan Tonight! In front of Quapaw Canoe Company Friday, Aug 31st, 6-8pm featuring: Bluesman Extraordinaire: James “Super Chikan” Johnson ~~ and ~~ Wang Ping: Rivers and Spirituality Life of Miracles Yangtze & Mississippi 12 noon Sat, Sept 1 The Program: 6pm James “Super Chikan” Johnson 6:30-7 pm Remarks by […]
Smithsonian Exhibit Set to Spark Conversations About Water in the Delta For Immediate Release: August, 20th 2018 (Attend Grand Opening Celebration found below) This fall, a traveling Smithsonian exhibit invites residents of the Delta to explore the complex ways that water impacts their lives. The Water/Ways exhibit will be on display in Clarksdale from August […]
Amid all the positives, a question about CPU did come up. “Ken needs no introduction,” presenter Jerry Hudson said, and City of Clarksdale Ward 2 Commissioner Ken Murphey took the podium with his big usual smile. Friendly, positive, informal, Ken talked without notes or script, just like it should be, a real chat with real […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1619: An English ship, The White Lion, lands in Jamestown, Virginia. Its cargo is 20 slaves, the first enslaved people to come to what would later become The United States. (It was originally reported to be a Dutch Warship to avoid England being charged for piracy.) From National Park Service on […]
From WROX: Clarksdale’s 31st annual Sunflower River Blues and Gospel festival officially gets underway tonight at 6 pm with the Delta Blues Museum Band on the museum stage. More than three dozen artists will play this weekend on the main stage, six acoustic stages and at the Civic Auditorium and all of the performances are […]
A Shout-Out for City of Truth, Daye 5 and CCYO (a video and lots of photos below) The Back to School Give-Away was a wonderful community gathering at the Coahoma County Expo Center last Saturday. Sponsored by the City of Truth, Daye 5 Foundation and Coahoma County Youth Outreach, the event was for children, and […]
Football is important, but Academic Graduation is more. This week’s program was presented by Rotary Club member, Don Green, the Executive Director of the Mississippi Delta Council/FWOI and a founder of the Clarksdale Coahoma County Sports Hall of Fame Foundation. His introduction of Coahoma Community College football coach Steve Miller was short, and to the […]
Audience Questions May Have Been the Star of the Show Not having attended anything from Higher Purpose Co. before, I didn’t know what to expect. Will it be effective, will it actually be helpful, is it of substance, those were thoughts I had when I first heard about the Higher Purpose Business Mixer that was […]
From WROX: The Coahoma County Tourism board will not reopen applications for a new executive director. 13 candidates, most from the local area, applied through the WIN Job Center before the original May 31st deadline. The search committee will evaluate them and present the top three finalists to the board at their next meeting on […]
The First Clarksdale International Street Art Event This project has found inspiring community wide support. Good street art is always a good idea, and Meghan Maike and Eric Stone are spot on in putting this together. Clarksdale Revitalization Inc. (CRI) and Clarksdale Collective at large are also on point. Paint the Town 2018: September 24-30 […]
