From the Clarksdale Press Register By TAYLOR MITCHELL Three former City of Clarksdale employees have filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Board of Mayor and Commissioners learned in executive session at Monday’s meeting. One of the complainants is from former city attorney Curtis Boschert, who was removed from his position in […]
Music history and highlights on January 23rd from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1837: Former slave, singer and evangelist Amanda Smith born in Long Green, Maryland. 1902: Jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Benjamin “Benny” Waters” born in Baltimore. 1906: Composer Igor Stravinsky marries Yekaterina Nosenko. 1910: Pioneering jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt born […]
The Arts & Culture District sign honorning Andrew Carr was just mounted in historic downtown Clarksdale. It is located at the corner of Issaquena Ave. and E. 2nd St., and is not far from the current headquarters of Coahoma Opportunities Inc, where Andy distinguished himself as a helpful, community minded and progressive young man. Andy […]
The Arts & Culture District sign honoring Rev. Walter Dakin was put up in front of St. Episcopal Church, where Dakin was the rector from 1915 to 1931. He was also the grandfather of Tennessee Williams, and a founding influence on his grandson’s remarkable literary career. (More information here.) Reverend Dakin’s sign was can be […]
By Clarksdale\Coahoma County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Jon Levingston. In 2005, I was appointed to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Study Commission by Governor Haley Barbour. On Friday, December 8, 2017, I had the privilege of attending the reception at the newly completed Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Mississippi Museum of History Museum […]
Here’s a Clarksdale documentary film, ” A Life of Service” off of the City website. Check out all Clarksdale documentary films here. “A Life of Service” is about Clarksdale civic leader Bertha Blackburn, and it also features her friend Cozetta White. At an early age Bertha learned the importance of giving back to her community. […]
Music history highlights that have happened on January 21st from the birthplace of the blues… and rock n’ roll. 1927: 1st national broadcast ever from a U.S. opera venue (Faust from Chicago). 1941: Opera tenor Placido Domingo born in Madrid. 1941: Folk singer Richie Havens born in Brooklyn. 1956: Victor Borge’s “Comedy in Music” show […]
“A Change Is Gonna Come” (WIKIPEDIA, research source) One of the most important songs ever, written Sam Cooke from the album “Ain’t That Good News”. It was released on December 22, 1964, and it was the “B” side of Sam’s single “Shake.” It was recorded on January 30, 1964 at RCA Studios in Los Angeles. […]
Elvis Presley Birthplace, Vicksburg National Military Park, GRAMMY Museum and Clarksdale’s Mississippi Rock & Blues Museum in top five. (USA TODAY) The Magnolia State is many things; it’s the birthplace of the blues and a critical Civil Rights battle ground. It’s natural beauty includes the sandy beaches of the Gulf and the famed waters of […]
Lets all please welcome new surgeon Kendrix Evans, MD to Clarksdale.