Beale Street

Cultural  

1. A street in an African-American section of Memphis, Tennessee, famous for its blues music. It is memorialized in the famous “Beale Street Blues.”

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Example Sentences

Marshals, and other authorities gathered at barricades along Beale Street, the city’s famous blues hub.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

You worked with him on "If Beale Street Could Talk," which he adapted and directed.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024

“Moonlight,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “The Underground Railroad” “are of a certain time in my life and of a certain moment in my artistic development,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024

Anderson grew up Toronto, raised by a single mother alongside his two brothers, one of which is Stephan James who starred in 2018’s Oscar-nominated “If Beale Street Could Talk,” as well as Ava DuVernay’s “Selma.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023

I walked down Beale Street and into the heart of Memphis.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright