Two Landmarks endorsements put stamps of approval on the first steps toward honoring and restoring local African American histories For last Thursday’s Memphis Landmarks Commission…
Read More Early holiday celebration for two historic sites endorsed by Memphis Landmarks: 492 Vance Ave & Persons’ 1917 lynching site
A True Christmas Message It starts unassumingly enough, with snowflakes lightly falling backed by the twinkling keys of what is one of the most celebrated jazz…
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The news came in December 1915, that one of cinema’s most infamous films – which exalted, glorified and stoked white supremacy – was soon coming…
Read More When “The Birth of a Nation” Came to Memphis
“When we think of homelessness, we picture someone who is barely surviving in this world. Homelessness is the most visible form of the ways in…
Read More CAFTH: “We believe that homelessness is a solvable problem”
It’s rare these days – and all the more warm and wonderful when it does happen – that we get to experience something wholly fresh…
Read More No Place Like Home: Playhouse’s THE WIZARD OF OZ Brings Joy & Memories
A jarring telephone ring at 5:30 AM startled businessman Abe Plough awake. On the other end was Clarence Henochsberg, assistant cashier and popular teller at…
Read More Tragedy & Charity: The Year the Jews Saved Christmas
The Metal Museum was recently awarded a $198,051 Museums for America matching grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to conduct its…
Read More Metal Museum awarded $198k federal grant to take stock of vast collection
A group of learner participants in Literacy Mid-South programs reflect on personal struggles, life-long learning, and life itself The roots of their struggles are wide-ranging,…
Read More Gratitude for Home & Learning: Stories, Memories, and Thanks, from Literacy Mid-South
In 1877, Memphis didn’t have trolleys. It had no elevators. Memphis didn’t even have a single bridge that crossed the Mississippi River – but it…
Read More Big Moves: Downtown Club Rekindles Chess History in Memphis
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. In late 1796, Chickasaw Chief Ugulayacabé (you-guh-lah yock-uh-bee) appeared at Fort…
Read More “The Spanish are My Whites:” Chickasaw Diplomacy on the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff