Like many other organizations in Memphis, Stax Records held a special place in the struggle for racial equality, basing its company practices on the ideas of opportunity, economic empowerment, inclusion, and trying to affect positive change in the African-American community in Memphis and throughout the country. In the wake of the murders of Dr. Martin Luther
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Barring any unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the Stax Museum now plans to reopen on a limited basis beginning June 18, 2020. Working with the CDC. City of Memphis, Shelby County Health Department, American Alliance for Museums, and other organizations, we are still in the process of finalizing our reopening plans, which are complex because
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While Depression-era Macon, Georgia may have been an eclectic place with interesting people, not just everyone had 11 brothers and sisters, lived in a rundown house on a dirt street, had a father who was a minister and sold moonshine on the side, and was a young bisexual man who wore a high pompadour hairstyle
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HOLY GHOST! In case you missed it on their Facebook page watch party, the legendary Bar-Kays want you to stay home, stay safe, practice social distancing, but do feel free to get down watching THE BAR-KAYS RELOADED: SAFE AT HOME AWARENESS SHOW, a concert performed live in Memphis earlier this year. The newly “reloaded show”
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Today, as we remember the life and legacy of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his death in Memphis just a few miles from Stax Records, we also salute the Stax artists who wrote and recorded much of the soundtrack to the Civil Rights Movement. It’s also something of a little known fact
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