Crisis Magazine

Karen Boykin-Towns Takes Her Talents to Sard Verbinnen

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentSeptember 19, 2019

“I want people who are going to be able to tell it straight. People who will assess a situation and then be able to give you the realities of what it is,” Boykin-Towns said of her expectations in her new role.

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If Beale Street Could Talk, It Would Tell Memphis to ‘Copyright Me’

Dr. L. LaSimba M. Gray Jr., Special to The New Tri-State DefenderFebruary 15, 2019

I will never forget the colorful characters of Beale Street: Men wearing coordinated suits, shoes and hats, with processed hair; curvaceous women walking with advertising gaits and long eye lashes; impromptu street concerts by bands and musicians; “barkers” pleading for customers to enter their stores and shops; shoe shine boys with their mobile shine parlors and the bustling crowds.