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A classic academy award winning movie and 1st Academy winner for an African-American's.  The film's most recent screening at the theater was on the night of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. A Memphis movie theater’s announcement that it will discontinue its annual screening of “Gone With the Wind” over concerns that the film is insensitive has prompted a heated discussion online. The Orpheum theater has shown that 1939 film each of the past 34 years, as part of its classics series. It won 10 Oscars, including one for Hattie McDaniel as best supporting actress for her portrayal of a slave named Mammy. (She became the first black actor to win an Academy Award.) After the film’s screening on Aug. 11 — the same evening as a march in Charlottesville, Va., by white nationalists ahead of the “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 12 — the theater received complaints online from patrons and commenters, who denounced the film’s portrayal of blacks a...

The King of the Blues will get one last time on Beale Street. The open-casket event from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at Palm South Jones Mortuary begins a week-long series of memorials.  A procession next Wednesday will mark the King of the Blues' return to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, before a final road trip to Indianola, Mississippi, and burial May 30. The marquee across the street from B.B. King's restaurant on Beale Street  LAS VEGAS  m ortuary manager Matt Phillips says viewers can file past King's casket, but there'll be a strict no-photos rule.  King's daughter, Shirley King, is hosting a Friday night musical tribute.  She booked the Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas to open to the public at 8 p.m. for what she says will be live music and remembrances.   After a memorial service Saturday in Las Vegas, the remains of B.B. King will arrive in Memphis about noon on May 27, where a procession at Beale Street's Handy Park will take place. O...