Three Hamilton County schools teamed up to craft strategic funding plans that could change the way they secure resources in ...

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Their influence, however, persists. 1925: Bessie Smith, the "Empress of Blues," records her rendition of W.C. Handy's "St.

The Bessie Smith Cultural Center hosted their annual "Speak Like a King" event Monday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Students from Chattanooga Preparatory School and Chattanooga Girls ...

The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at ...

But this wasn’t someone she sat with at school. In fact, it was a woman she had never met – the legendary blues singer Bessie Smith. Jackie’s first introduction to Bessie came in the form of ...

The Devil's Gonna Get You; Aggravatin' Papa; Oh Daddy Blues; Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out; Don't Cry Baby; Today; Interlude; Mam'selle Marie; Mourn You Mourners; Baby Won't You Please ...

The School Resource Development Institute recently concluded its year-long program at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center today.

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues style of the 1940s, and BB King, above, headed the blues revival in the 1960s Chattanooga-born Bessie Smith, nicknamed the Empress of the ...