The first play to open on Broadway after the Covid pandemic shut everything down is now the first play to open in Memphis that directly…
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Author: Elaine Blanchard
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells She’s small, standing in her full skirt Between the music of Beale and the bells of the Baptist church. Ida B Wells,…
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Green Places for Little Shop of Horrors’ Cast
Dancers lift their arms in unison and twirl as a unit. Actors march across the room, lips moving as they run lines. Crew members place…
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Water is Wonderful for Clean Memphis and International Paper
No longer are teachers urging students to simply pick up litter and put it in the trash. Instead, teachers are being trained by Clean Memphis…
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“The saddest case I’ve ever run across” – Imprisoned since 2012, Pamela Green found a reason to live
… there was something about the man’s posture or the way he stood between Pamela and the door that triggered the young woman’s paranoia… A…
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Monologues for Healing, from the Women Who Lived Them
Prison Stories “I ran like she told me to do. A neighbor man grabbed me up and carried me across the street to his porch…
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Behind “Prison Stories”: A Storytelling Program For Healing
A much-needed program, now over, that resonates through today’s Black Lives Matter movement Originally published in the November 2018 print edition of StoryBoard By Elaine…
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