If Beale Street could talk, it would say, Who the hell is the guy depicted in that big statue by the entrance to the park? W. C. Handy, once so famous as the Father of the Blues that he was ...

A centre of celebration last week was Memphis’ Beale Street, the garish Negro thoroughfare with its assortment of poolrooms and pawnshops, its gin parlors and its hot-fish restaurants. While Memphis ...

Few civic reforms has hoary Memphis seen under the rule of the “Red Snapper,” Boss Crump. One was to make all east-west streets avenues. Caught in that genteeling was the street of dance halls, voodoo ...