Clarksdale News

The blues beckon at the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival and it must be a pretty loud call.

Morgan Freeman and his wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, arrive at the 2004 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Annual Awards Gala, held at Tavern on the Green in New York, on Tuesday, January 13, 2004.

Actor Morgan Freeman suffered some broken bones in a car accident Sunday in which his car flipped several times.

Morgan Freeman, 71, was critically injured in a car accident on Sunday near the Clarksdale, Mississippi blues club he owns, Ground Zero Blues Club.

Edward and Stacey Brown are a young African-American couple trying to make it as filmmakers in Los Angeles.

Sure, it's 9:45 p.m., and almost time to watch The Daily Show ... But it's never too late for a commitment.

North Mississippians are preparing for a fun annual draw in the Yocona International Festival.

Mississippi's first Southern Living Idea House, Taylor Creek in Taylor, makes the popular magazine's August cover, due in subscribers' mailboxes this week and on newsstands July 29.

When: 9 p.m. Friday. Where: Fanatics, 2106 McDowell Road, Jackson. Cost: Call for cover.

Mississippi's first Southern Living Idea House, Taylor Creek in Taylor, makes the popular magazine's August cover, due in subscribers' mailboxes this week and on newsstands July 29.

I'm pretty swamped today so I'll keep this short, although not as short as this timeline of John Lee Hooker 's life taken verbatim from his Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame page : August 22, 1917: John Lee Hooker was ...

Posted by Stephanie Scurlock Police Officer Daughter of Murdered D.J. Speaks Murdered Blues D.J. is father of Memphis Police Officer Veteran Officer works in domestic violence unit now victim of crime Officer ...

Popular Memphis radio DJ Dee Henderson, also known as "Cap N Pete" was found dead Wednesday behind his home in Southwest Memphis.

YAHOO! Grandson charged in WEVL deejay's shooting By Jody Callahan , Memphis Commercial Appeal Friday, July 18, 2008 Memphis police have arrested the grandson of a popular deejay killed Wednesday, charging him ...

Charles Wright headed one of the great funk groups of the late '60s and early '70s, the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band.

The Canton Spirituals took home three Jackie awards Sunday night at the 30th annual Mississippi Gospel Music Awards at the Jackson Marriott.

Actor Morgan Freeman is opening his second blues club in Mississippi. This one will be outside the Mississippi Delta.

The blues fanatics of the Kalamazoo Valley Blues Association have been sure to pack the blues fest with the vets, the big names and the obscure-but-deserving-attention for the past 15 years.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation received approval from the Federal Highway Administration for an environmental assessment for the state Route 6 improvement project in Coahoma, Quitman and Panola ...

Classic soul music, despite its earthy roots in arduously tended crop fields and lawdy-lawdy Pentecostal churches, and despite its often heart-crushing emotion, is, above anything else, pop music.