Close your eyes. Can you picture the flag of the City of Memphis? Did you come up with anything? Did you even know that the…
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Category: Opinion
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Opinion: We Have a Shot at Ending the COVID-19 Crisis. Let’s Get It Done.
It is a difficult time to be a healthcare professional in the Mid-South. All of us have had to continuously change as we adapt to a…
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Consider the Mid-South Coliseum as another Covid vaccination site
Marvin Stockwell’s op-ed for The Daily Memphian advocates for the historic venue to be used a drive-thru vaccination site “Vaccinations are not keeping pace with…
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Turning down the noise and slowing down time in search of something called wisdom
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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A Vision for the Nylon Net Building, #7 Vance
UPDATED 11/10: With a demolition permit now filed, StoryBoard joins the building’s former owner to discuss the building and imagines possible re-uses for it UPDATED:…
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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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