In today's UNMUTE, take a look at few fun facts about the amazing woman called Bessie Smith. Without Bessie Smith there would ...

Queen Latifah played blues singer Bessie Smith in HBO’s “Bessie” in 2015. The movie briefly dramatized the incident in Concord where Smith stared down the KKK. Handout TNS In his application ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

February 28, 2025 • The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit for Black History ...