A Delta Afternoon: The Ghosts of Earle

On September 10, 1970, the Rev. Ezra Greer and his wife, Jackie, who was a candidate for mayor of Earle, Arkansas, led a march from an Earle church toward Earle city hall when local white residents…

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Iyuana Patrice and Jonathan Ellis Bring the Blues to Broadway in West Memphis

Blues Off Broadway is a weekly blues concert every Thursday evening in the month of May in West Memphis, Arkansas, usually held on a portable stage just outside the Eugene Woods Civic Center near t…

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West Memphis’s New Amphitheater at Hightower Park

While Memphis has struggled, West Memphis has been making a considerable amount of progress under the leadership of its young mayor Marco McClendon. Every year in May, the city sponsors a month of …

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