StoryBoard debuts the Yellow Chair ChronEchols By Candace Echols Sometimes, news images have the odd effect of making me feel young and old at the…
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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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In Memoriam, 2020
This retired school teacher reflects on a year of loss, and lessons By Mark Scott It has been a very long and traumatic year. Like…
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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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A Great Southern Voice
Rick Bragg returns with a collection of his short works By Susannah Felts for Chapter16.org Rick Bragg is one of the great Southern voices of…
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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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The Problem with Policing
In Occupied Territory, Simon Balto digs at the roots of the current turmoil over race and policing By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org Every year, the Benjamin…
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Roaming Internal Landscapes
M. Randal O’Wain’s stories limn the South’s inequities and anguished history By Hamilton Cain for Chapter16.org From Faulkner to O’Connor to Broom, the dispossessed have…
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Putting the Music First
Memphis Mayhem is an insider’s history of the city’s sound By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org Ah, Memphis, the Southern capital of sin and song —…
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