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

Baldwin’s writing about race and American society was always entwined with love stories, from his pathbreaking 1956 LGBTQ+ novel “Giovanni’s Room” to his late classic, 1974’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Since "Atlanta," he has stared in a collection of films, including "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Widows," "Bullet Train," and the "Spider-Verse" films.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024

On Beale Street, Mr. Nichols took in the bright lights of the city’s cultural artery, where blues and rock ’n’ roll spill out onto the streets at night.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

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

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright