‘Sinners’ Goes Beyond Horror and the Blues for Clarksdale, Miss.

The community effort and attention around “Sinners,” a blockbuster horror movie, became an opportunity to talk about investing in the Delta town that built the blues.Tyler Yarbrough with Dr. Mary Williams. He led an open letter urging the director Ryan Coogler to screen “Sinners” in Clarksdale, Miss., “to experience firsthand the living, breathing legacy that inspired your work and the people who are sustaining and reimagining its future.”