Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time Coming is an elegy and a call to action By Kashif Andrew Graham for Chapter16.org “I can’t breathe.” Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time…
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A Park for the People
Brooks Lamb tells the history of Overton Park through the eyes of Memphians Originally published by Chapter16 February 21, 2019 By Aram Goudsouzian, for Chapter16.org…
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Power in the Word
Southern Word connects young people to their voices, each other By Ciona Rouse, for Chapter16.org Benjamin Smith doesn’t really believe in the extraordinary young person.…
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The Light of Truth
Michelle Duster delivers an intimate biography of Ida B. Wells By Kashif Andrew Graham, for Chapter16.org Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy…
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Live and Let Spy
In Sometimes You Have to Lie, Leslie Brody traces the origin story of an author and her fictional heroine By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org At first…
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Corey Mesler: The Bard of Memphis
Corey Mesler’s hippie poet returns in The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros By David Bersell, for Chapter16.org Corey Mesler’s The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros follows its titular…
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Why Merle Haggard Deserves a Nobel Prize
Peter Guralnick discusses his latest book, Looking to Get Lost By Jim Patterson, for Chapter16.org If Peter Guralnick only accomplished rescuing Elvis Presley from the bilious…
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This Is How I Saved Myself
Tina Turner shares her spiritual practice of 50 years By Tina Chambers, for Chapter16.org In Tina Turner’s new book, Happiness Becomes You, she advises readers to ask…
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MaDear’s Scrapbook
A granddaughter discovers an unexpected legacy of memories, questions, and untold stories By Lori D. Johnson for Chapter16.org For years, I thought I was the…
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Robert Gordon: Memphis Calling
Robert Gordon revisits his rollicking tale of a revolutionary musical city By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org The title told it all, like some sci-fi…
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