Yarbrough, along with Clarksdale mayor Chuck Espy, spoke to CNN’s Victor Blackwell for the “Art is Life” segment on Saturday, and shared their hopes that the screening will become a reality.

The update comes after local activist Tyler Yarbrough penned an open letter to Coogler, actor Michael B. Jordan and the rest of the cast to visit his hometown, which made national headlines last week.

TYLER YARBROUGH: Our mission is to make sure that every family, no matter of ZIP code, have access to good food. In the Delta, we're working to intertwine community economic development and public ...

Earlier this month, local activist Tyler Yarbrough spoke to USA TODAY about how his open letter to Coogler, actor Michael B. Jordan and the rest of the cast to visit his hometown went viral, made ...

Black folks were up in arms about that fact and Tyler Yarbrough, a community organizer in Clarksdale, wrote an open letter asking for the film to be shown in his hometown. Ryan Coogler, the writer ...

The charge was led by Tyler Yarbrough, a Clarksdale native, who wrote a public letter to the director after seeing the movie in a nearby town. Set in 1932, Sinners tells the story of twin brothers ...

Although set in the small city, the movie was reportedly filmed in several locations in Louisiana. As Capital B News first reported, local activist Tyler Yarbrough of Clarksdale had to travel 80 miles ...

Angevine Middle School student Tyler Yarbrough, 14, and his mother moved to Lafayette after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina.Before coming to Colorado, Tyler had never seen mountains or snow.… ...