There are 4 article(s) tagged LaSimba Gray:

• October 2022

  • Beale Street Baptist gets $150K in county-funded repairs

    Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said the grant from the county’s reserve fund is likely the first of several for a full restoration of the 137-year old church.

    By Bill Dries October 28, 2022

• March 2022

  • Fourth Street becomes Ida B. Wells Street

    Signs for the permanent street renaming were unveiled Monday for a section of Fourth Street between Union Avenue and E.H. Crump Boulevard.

    By Bill Dries March 29, 2022

• June 2021

  • Ida B. Wells monument and plaza will stand at Beale and Fourth

    Four years after the removal of the monument for Confederate Army Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a statue of Ida B. Wells will stand in Memphis for the first time.

    By Rob Moore June 08, 2021

• June 2019

  • Church’s striking and obscure story marked on Beale Street

    The South's first black millionaire was remembered Tuesday, on what would have been his 180th birthday, with a Beale Street parade where the heart of his business empire once stood.

    By Bill Dries June 19, 2019