Chickasaw Civic Theatre prepares to open its long-delayed production of “Big Fish: A Larger Than Life Musical,” while the Mobile Museum of Art postpones an Art Talk on Mobile’s Jim Crow history tied to its Gordon Parks exhibit.
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Mobile Renames Stretch of Tennessee Street to Honor Rayfield Davis, Killed in Unprosecuted 1948 Slaying
Mobile has renamed a stretch of Tennessee Street for Rayfield Davis, a Black Brookley Field worker beaten to death in 1948 in a killing his admitted attacker was never prosecuted for, as a new History Museum of Mobile exhibit examines the case.
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Is Mobile’s Golden Age Right Now? A Realtor Makes the Case for the Present Tense
Oyster stands on Government Street, the Lyric Theatre, wartime shipyards running around the clock — all had a claim. But in the third entry of a series on Mobile’s golden age, one Mobilian argues the best chapter is the one being written now.