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- The senior class of Clarksdales private school hangs out in the parking lot after their prom has official finished. There are only two schools in Clarksdale, Miss. The public school which is mostly filled with black students and the private school which is all white.
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- Gregory – “This town used to have a good smell, it smelled like meat cooking in the summer and at Christmas it smelled like fruit.” His friend is named Cole. Mookies grandfather and Michael’s friend.
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- A park on the south side of Clarksdale beside the water treatment plant and power plant.
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- Michael Fisher scaled fish and talked with friends for a good part of the afternoon then fried them up in a mixture of corn bread and batter. The evening ended with a joint and dancing as a Prince CD skips through its final songs.
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- Roy Halcomb, everyone calls him Cindy (though that is actually his daughters name), works at one of his many businesses as a demolition guy tearing down abandoned buildings, this is the house of a couple that died. He also works as a bail bondsman and has a body shop next to the jail.
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- A man hoes weeds between rows of cotton.
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- Gregory – “This town used to have a good smell, it smelled like meat cooking in the summer and at Christmas it smelled like fruit.” His friend is named Cole. Mookies grandfather and Michael’s friend.
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- While there are plenty of juke joints celebrating Clarksdales Blues history one of the busiest clubs plays more recent tunes and brings in DJs. There is also a TV above the bar that loops through old porn videos.
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- After prom students go to Wendy’s.
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- 11 year old Dussean Shields climbs up into the net on the court across from Riverview Hotel. In the final pictures he is holding up a condom.
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- The county fair.
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- The Clarksdale power-plant sits nearly empty through the night.
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- Before it fills with youth, a rap blasting club in downtown Clarksdale. The blues clubs attract mainly tourists.
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- Buster Moton has the Williams family over to play in the pool as part of his campaign. It included a final speech where he says “You know what we gotta do, we gotta do, we gotta do.”
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- Students from the mostly white private high school, Lee Academy, party in a bus as it drives around the city on prom night
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- The Church of God In Christ in Clarksdale had a weeklong retreat for their evangelists. As most of the members are in the sanctuary kids roam the halls.
Clarksdale Mississippi wants to be known as the birthplace of the blues but the ghost of legal segregation are still visible in a complex defacto segregation. The public and private school are split along racial lines. The country club is all white and the neighborhoods are resegregating as rich white residents move into tax haven suburbs leaving the neighborhoods gutted of jobs and capital.