With a full demolition being decided Wednesday October 28, StoryBoard joins the building’s former owner to discuss the building and imagines possible re-uses for it…
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Category: Opinion
Featuring local opinions and editorials from all over Memphis
De-Listed = De-Struction: Investment in the Pinch Must Utilize What’s Left of Its Past
Just one more demolition threatens the entire district – and the investments of developers eligible for tax credits waiting to improve or stabilize their properties.…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, October 15, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In this week’s letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of The Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: October 7, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent writes another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow…
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I couldn’t see, I couldn’t breathe. It’s time we acknowledge our collective trauma.
OPINION By Marissa Kizer “A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t…
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White People’s Ego Will Get You Killed
“Why am I repeating this story in such detail? Because white people have fear of Black folks. We do. Even when we don’t want to.”…
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An Integrated, United Independence
A cohesive, book-ended 16-day celebration of unified American Independence starting on June 19th and culminating on July 4th could be something meaningful, for all, to celebrate. …
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: June 17, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Appeal newspaper during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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For What It’s Worth
By Mark Fleischer, StoryBoard Publisher There’s somethin’ happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.There’s a man with a gun over there, tellin’ me I…
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When a White Woman Accuses a Black Man
By Ellen Morris Prewitt He was a writer, a man I’ll call Jonathan. Jonathan was in writing group with me one hour before he was…
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