3 “Sinners” Facts That Hollywood Didn’t Make Up
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" is a certified blockbuster. Here are three behind-the-scenes Black facts about the movie’s setting of Clarksdale, Mississippi, that will have you looking at "Sinners" in a whole new light.
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| 0:27.7 | slash setup Clarksdale is one of the most famous towns in the Mississippi |
| 0:36.3 | Delta and it's also the setting |
| 0:38.8 | of Ryan Coolers certified blockbuster centers. |
| 0:42.2 | Here three behind-the-scenes facts about Clarksdale that I have you looking at centers |
| 0:46.2 | in a whole new light. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm Leslie, and this is too many Black History, what You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 1:00.8 | Fact number one. |
| 1:03.6 | Legend has it that about 100 years ago, a struggling blues man named Robert Johnson sold |
| 1:09.7 | his soul to the devil in Clarksdale in exchange for fame. |
| 1:13.6 | Although the blues genre actually started in the Orleans Storyville community, |
| 1:18.6 | many greats like Muddy Waters, Johnny Lee Hooker, and the five blind boys called Clarksdale home. |
| 1:26.6 | Fact number two. Clarksdale home. |
| 1:28.3 | Fact number two. |
| 1:30.3 | Clarksdale was a hub in the Great Migration. |
| 1:33.3 | The town was a major departure point for black people leaving Mississippi |
| 1:38.3 | in search of social and economic opportunities up north in Chicago and D.C. |
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