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Ground Zero is a blues club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, US that is co-owned by Morgan Freeman, Memphis entertainment executive Howard Stovall, and businessman Eric Meier. [1] Attorney Bill Luckett was also co-owner until his death in 2021. [2] It got its name from Clarksdale being historically referred to as "Ground Zero" for the blues.
Beale Street Baptist Church, Tennessee's oldest surviving African American Church edifice built beginning in 1869, was also important in the early civil rights movement in Memphis. In 1889, NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells was a co-owner and editor of an anti-segregationist paper called Free Speech based on Beale before her presses were destroyed ...
Shelby County is home to fourteen institutions of higher learning and satellite campuses of institutions whose main campus is in another county. Memphis is home to Baptist College of Health Sciences, Christian Brothers University, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide (Memphis Campus), [28] Harding School of Theology, LeMoyne–Owen ...
Downtown Memphis includes 4.5 million square feet (418,000 square meters) of office space, [4] around 1 million square feet (93,000 square meters) of retail space, 3,456 hotel rooms, and 13,400 housing units. [5] The administrative core of Memphis and of Shelby County, Tennessee is also located in Downtown Memphis.
The Memphis–Clarksdale–Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn. The census-defined combined statistical area covers eleven counties in three states, Tennessee , Mississippi , and Arkansas .
The Audubon Golf Course can be seen on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4160 Park Avenue in Memphis, Tenn. The park is undergoing renovations.
Renderings for the Blues Note Hotel in Downtown Memphis. The mixed-use development campus will include 191-room hotel, 65-unit apartment building and a boutique hotel. The site is located along Dr ...
"Welcome to Memphis" sign on U.S. Route 51 (2008). Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of distinctive contributions to the culture of the American South and beyond. Although it is an important part of the culture of Tennessee, the history, arts, and cuisine of Memphis are more closely associated with the culture of the Deep South (particularly the Mississippi Delta) than the rest of the state.