An Art Movement in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis has built everything on our legacy. We're set up with a reminder of what was, but you also get a chance to reflect on how far you've come. Hear from Victoria Jones, community organizer that is working on elevating black artists, uplifting black communities, and shifting the culture of Memphis.
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Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee: Home of Elvis Presley, king of rock ‘n’ Roll
Experience an unforgettable family holiday at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, and explore the home of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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Feed Your Soul in Memphis, Tennessee
Warning: this video will make you hungry! The 73-year-old Four Way Cafe is one of the most iconic restaurants in Memphis, Tennessee, celebrated as much for its heart- warming soul food as it is for its place in American history.
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Memphis, TN: USA family holidays in the birthplace of rock and roll music
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Memphis, Tennessee: Explore Southern Food, Music and History
Discover the authentic southeastern USA on a holiday to Memphis, Tennessee.
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Why You Want to Get Outdoors in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee – Where you can zip line, river cruise, kayak, paddle board and explore the coolest outdoor outfitter store and more!
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Usher: The UR Experience Tour
Tickets will go on sale today at 10am for Usher's December 8 return to Memphis.
Tennessee Cuisine: Dining Hot Spots in Memphis and Chattanooga
Dive into the culinary scene in Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee, where you encounter fresh takes on Southern classics and tempting craft-cocktails.
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Behind the Headlines – February 3, 2017
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland on crime, the Pinch District, and more.
Inside the FedEx Express World Hub
It’s called the Super hub for a reason. The technology is mind blowing. It’s the size of a small city. Between the hours of 10 pm till about 4 am it’s the busiest airport in the world. Take an inside look at the FedEx Express World Hub in Memphis, Tennessee.
LESLIE JONES
Leslie Jones (born September 7, 1967) is an American comedian and actress who is a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live. Jones has been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime.[1] Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan.
Early life
Leslie Jones was born on September 7, 1967 in Memphis, Tennessee.[1][2] Her father was in the United States Army and her family moved frequently.[3] Her family moved to Los Angeles, when her father took a job at Stevie Wonder's radio station, KJLH, as an electronics engineer. Jones attended high school in Lynwood, California, where she also played basketball; in May 2015, she stated on Late Night with Seth Meyers that her father suggested that she play the sport because she is six feet tall.[4]
Jones attended Chapman University on a basketball scholarship and transferred to Colorado State University when her coach left Chapman for Colorado State.[5][6] She intended to become a lawyer,[1] but changed her mind and changed her major a few times, including to business accounting and computer science and eventually ended up majoring in communications.[7] At Chapman, Jones became a radio DJ.[7] She was unsure of what she wanted to do, and contemplated the possibility of a career playing basketball overseas.[1]
Career
Stand-up
Jones started to do stand-up comedy in college in 1987, when a friend signed her up for a Funniest Person on Campus contest.[1][3] After she won the contest, Jones left school and moved to Los Angeles.[1] She performed at regular clubs and worked at Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles and UPS[8] to make ends meet. Mother Love and Dave Chappelle encouraged her to move to New York City to hone her craft for two years, where she appeared on BET's ComicView before returning to Los Angeles.[7] She performed at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, but received unfavorable reviews.[7] She opened up for Jamie Foxx and was booed by the audience. Feeling discouraged, Jones stopped performing for three years.[7]
In 2010, Jones was part of Katt Williams' It's Pimpin' Pimpin' tour.[3][9]
Saturday Night Live
In December 2013, Saturday Night Live held a casting call to add at least one African-American woman to the show, and Jones auditioned. Sasheer Zamata was added as a featured player, while Jones and LaKendra Tookes were hired as writers.[10] Jones appeared during the Weekend Update segment of the May 3, 2014 episode hosted by Andrew Garfield, where her jokes about her current dating problems and her potential effectiveness as a breeding slave were met with controversy.[5][11]
Jones appeared in the first and third episodes of the 40th season, hosted by Chris Pratt and Bill Hader, respectively. On October 20, 2014, Jones was promoted to the cast as a featured player, and made her official debut on the October 25, 2014 episode hosted by Jim Carrey. She became, at the age of 47, the oldest person to join the show as a cast member (surpassing Michael McKean and George Coe, who were 46 when they joined the show in, respectively, 1994 and 1975).[12][13] Jones' addition marks the first time in SNL history that the show's cast has included more than one African-American woman; in addition, the 40th season has the most African-American cast members to date.[14] Jones subsequently returned for Seasons 41 and 42.
Film
In 2014, Jones appeared in Chris Rock's directing debut, Top Five; Rock has said a follow-up is in the works,[15] telling Complex Magazine, Some people really shine in Top Five. You might want to see a little more Leslie Jones.[16]
In 2015, Jones appeared in the Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer project, Trainwreck; reportedly Apatow and Schumer wrote a part specifically for Jones after seeing her turn in Top Five.[17]
In 2016, she starred in the reboot Ghostbusters as Patty Tolan, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon.[5][18]
Train Ride from Memphis to New Orleans
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Lafayette, Louisiana: Local Culinary Delights
Try local specialties in Lafayette, Louisiana like the popular lunch plate, boudin sausage and cracklin’ and robust local craft brews.
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Memphis Promo 2017
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Memphis, Dr. King, and the Road to Room 306
In January, dramaturg Dustin Trabert made a trip to Memphis to visit the historic Lorraine Motel in preparation for his work on CCCT's production of THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall.
Memphis, Tennessee: “home of the blues, FedEx, Elvis Presley, Rendezvous barbecue, and hoodoo.” In this way does playwright Katori Hall describe her hometown, setting of her play The Mountaintop, a captivating reimagining of the last night of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, spent in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel.
America’s racial past is inscribed in the very geography of Memphis. The city sits at the mouth of the fertile Mississippi delta, as its ancient Egyptian namesake sat on the Nile. It even has a pyramid. But Egypt’s agricultural economy was never as dependent on slavery as that of the American South; Memphis was a center for the trade in both cotton and slaves.
In 1866, a year after the Civil War, a riot against Freedmen and black Union Army veterans left 46 black citizens dead and many of their homes, churches, and schoolhouses burned to the ground. The 14th amendment, intended to guarantee full citizenship to former slaves, was passed directly in its wake.
By King’s day, in 1950, though African-Americans constituted 37% of Memphis’s population, they occupied 65% of the city’s substandard housing; most majority-black neighborhoods lacked basic improvements like paved streets, curbs, and gutters. A contemporary map of the city reveals how segregated the city remains, even today.
But Memphis has also become a center of American culture. The American music tradition – blues, jazz, gospel, and rock and roll - flowed upstream, out of the delta, honed in the nightclubs of Beale Street and the Stax and Sun recording studios. In the deeply segregated Jim Crow era, the humble Lorraine Hotel and its later motel addition was one of the few open to the black luminaries of the entertainment world who passed through the city.
The Lorraine Motel, situated on Mulberry Street in the south edge of downtown Memphis, is a scant mile and yet a world away from Memphis’s high-toned Peabody Hotel, with its ducks paraded to and from a marble fountain each afternoon. Its neighborhood was historically, and in King’s day, predominantly black; Katori Hall’s mother grew up just around the corner. Today dilapidated shotgun homes and warehouses are giving way to gentrification and a new identity for the neighborhood: the South Main Arts District.
The Lorraine today, along with the boarding house across the open courtyard from where James Earl Ray fired a single bullet, is the site of the National Civil Rights Museum, tracing black history in the United States from the slave trade to the present, with a special emphasis on the King years from 1955 to 1968. Following exhibits on bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and iconic marches, the narrative solemnly gives way to Dr. King’s last campaign, for the labor rights of the sanitation workers of Memphis, a fight that was to act as prelude to a broader Poor People’s Campaign.
Room 306 itself, where King and his closest associate, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, usually stayed, has, after decades of neglect, been restored to its 1968 appearance, as though Dr. King had just stepped outside, soon to return. If Room 306 remains eternally frozen in a pre-assassination past, one of countless places where a tired and tireless leader lay his head, then the balcony, with its perpetual wreath of remembrance and the square of new concrete, replacing that once stained with blood, is forever marked as a site where a martyr breathed his last.
And so the Lorraine Motel stands, with Ford’s Theatre and Dealey Plaza, as one of the indelible points on our map of political violence, a site where the possibilities of America took an irrevocable turn, some years ago, on April 4, 1968.
USA Through Film: Director Martha Coolidge's Seattle, Washington
Director Martha Coolidge (Real Genius, The Prince and Me, Valley Girl) shows us why she loves Seattle, Washington and what led her to make a life there, both personally and professionally. “Seattle is a kinetic, vital city that is growing and living and engaged at the same time as having a lot of natural beauty.”
This is part of our series of two-minute films about the country’s most magical locations. Seen through the eyes of 12 film directors, we hear their personal stories in their favorite landscapes and cities. We celebrate the USA as film’s greatest backdrop and via our film directors we gain unique insights into these extraordinary places.
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Crossing the border into Tennessee from the state of Virginia USA
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of America.
Tennessee known as the Volunteer State, has many symbols.
The tulip poplar was designated as the official state tree of Tennessee
Tennessee has two state flowers. The Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) is the state's wildflower and the iris is the state's cultivated flower.
Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country music, and rockabilly.
Tennessee has nine official state songs
1. My Homeland, Tennessee, by Nell Grayson Taylor (words) and Roy Lamont Smith (music)
2. When It's Iris Time in Tennessee, by Willa Waid Newman
3. My Tennessee, by Frances Hannah Tranum, is the state's official public school song
4. Tennessee Waltz, by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King
5. Rocky Top, by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
6. Tennessee, by Vivian Rorie
7. The Pride of Tennessee, by Fred Congdon, Thomas Vaughn and Carol Elliot
8. Smoky Mountain Rain, a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan that became a hit for Ronnie Milsap, was added to the list of state songs
9. Tennessee, written by John R. Bean of Knoxville
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After breakfast, we will travel into the state of Tennessee to take a ride on the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In the evening, we will travel to Pigeon Forge, TN to the famous dinner show, Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede, where we will enjoy some real southern cuisine.
Great Smoky Mountains, TN
Great Smoky Mountains Park This 520,000-acre park on the eastern border of Tennessee is a United States National Park and UNESCO World Heritage. It is the most-visited national park in the United States, and is renown for the beauty of its landscapes.
Ober Gatlinburg Aerial Tramway The Tramway takes 120 passengers 2.1 miles up the Great Smoky Mountains. Large windows offer magnificent views of the area. At night, passengers can see the lighted visages of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge as well as the nearby parkway.
Pigeon Forge, TN
Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede This Wild-West-Revue-type performance features animals such as pigs, horses, and chickens and is punctuated by a riding competition. The show starts an hour before dinner, with a musical act on the Carriage Room before guests are escorted into the arena.
In the morning, we will make our way to Chattanooga, TN and Lookout Mountain to see the Ruby Falls and Rock City. We will also take the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway.
Chattanooga, TN
Ruby Falls The Ruby Falls are a naturally-occurring underground waterfall in the appropriately-named Ruby Falls Caverns not far from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They are located underneath Lookout Mountain and are adjacent to the Lookout Mountain Caverns, although not connected.
Lookout Mountain Incline Railway The Incline Railway traces its history to 1895, when the a railway called The Incline opened to cart passengers to and from the peak of Lookout Mountain. It bills itself as one of the steepest railways worldwide.
Lookout Mountain This historic hilltop on the southern border of Tennessee has a colorful history as a place of importance during wartime. Most notably, it was the centerpiece of the Battle of Lookout Mountain during the American Civil War.
4-Day Tennessee, Smoky Mountain Tour from New York/New Jersey Tour Code: 272-227
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Road Trip USA: Southern States, Blues and barbecue
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