“Somehow my performing created this safe place where they could talk and share their stories. . . and the conversations that came from that. .…
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By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares with Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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Two of the Memphis 13, and Four Periods of Desegregation in the Shelby County School System WITNESSES TO HISTORY By Sophia Mason Gordon School: An Episode…
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By Cecilia Fay Almost every teenage girl loves shopping for new clothes. Shopping for a new outfit can give girls the confidence and determination they…
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This article was originally published both in print and online in the summer of 2019 – we have updated it and are republishing for the…
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“Livability has never been more important . . . at the very moment when city revenues are in decline and city leaders are challenged by…
View More SB 30 Episode 54: The future, and presence, of cities, with urbanist Carol Coletta
Join us for an online event with bestselling authors James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly Saturday, August 15 at 4:00 PM CDT! Bestselling crime novelist…
View More Novel at Home: James Lee Burke in Conversation with Michael Connelly
Stormy days are ahead unless we do something “I think if we want our recovery from the growing eviction issue to look the way we…
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NPI’s Summit Awards for Grassroots & Neighborhood Leaders Set for an Online Ceremony August 28 By Jeff Hulett, with Mark Fleischer An unsung hero of…
View More Shining a light on our neighborhoods, and our grassroots leaders
A History of Memphis’ Most Maligned Street “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner’s famous line, from his 1951 novel Requiem…
View More Union Avenue Anthology. Part I, The Plan of Memphis: 1783-1827