MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In advance of the 100th Birthday of B.B. King on September 16th, 2025, Memphis Tourism in partnership with B.B. King's Blues Club on world famous Beale ...

The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple , a historic Black church in downtown Memphis with ties to Martin Luther King Jr., was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday.

NWS issues tornado watch. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for parts of the Mid-South, including Memphis and much of West Tennessee.. The watch is in effect until 8 p.m. on ...

The Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps Center in Memphis has closed, and students are being sent home. The closure is part of a nationwide pause of the Job Corps program announced by the U.S. Department ...

In Memphis, an archive of 75,000 photographs offers an intimate look at Black life in the city over four decades—featuring not only glimpses of icons like B.B. King, Mahalia Jackson, and W.C ...

Foundations donate $1.5M to help restore historic Black church in Memphis gutted by arson The church served as the headquarters for a sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin ...