One of the world’s most famous musicians from Memphis, B.B. King, died months ago.
There was some talk of renaming a street in his honor, but nothing has happened so far.
Then, barely a week or so after local civil rights advocate D’Army Bailey was laid to rest, the Board of Commissioners voted 11-0 to rename the courthouse in his honor.
The Informed Sources discuss why action was taken so swiftly in one case but not another.
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