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

He came to Beale Street in part to catch a glimpse of the National Guard.

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

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

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024

While making “If Beale Street Could Talk,” they had coffee with Wells to talk about a possible feature.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2022

But in Memphis, on Beale Street, how could there be such hope, belief, faith in others?

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright