If you’re in northeastern Mississippi, it’s hard NOT to stop in Tupelo to visit the two-room birthplace of superstar Elvis Presley.
Tupelo, in the news still for the fatal shooting of a black man who ran from a car by a white police officer, is a growing city of 35,000 people, 59 percent of whom are white and 37 percent of whom are black. People living in poverty, as Elvis did when he was a boy, comprise about 20 percent of the population.
