ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 3, 2020: A cohesive, book-ended 16-day celebration of unified American Independence starting on June 19th and culminating on July 4th could be…
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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,…
Read More Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: June 17, 2020For 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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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…
Read More When a White Woman Accuses a Black ManAnd what is it that America has failed to hear?
“White Allies: Show Yourselves” By Mark Fleischer, StoryBoard Publisher “White allies, show yourselves.” “White people need to be speaking to white people right now.“ On…
Read More And what is it that America has failed to hear?The fire this time: Memphis’ response to police violence and civil unrest
“Do not gentrify protests or sanitize the fight for freedom,” warns Rev. Earle J. Fisher. “We cannot micromanage how people fight for their freedom.” Feature…
Read More The fire this time: Memphis’ response to police violence and civil unrestA Retirement This School Teacher Didn’t Count On
By Mark Scott I began this school year with a Facebook post showing me arriving early. As usual. To an empty parking lot. On the…
Read More A Retirement This School Teacher Didn’t Count OnWhat We Miss: Memorializing This Holiday Weekend
This is the holiday weekend I would look forward to for months. We have a few war veterans in our family who have passed, and…
Read More What We Miss: Memorializing This Holiday WeekendBlack Business Matters: Making COVID-19 Relief Equitable for Our Most Vulnerable Entrepreneurs
This article was originally published by Medium, for Medium’s Epicenter Memphis page. Republished with permission. By Anthony Young, Capital Executive in Residence for Epicenter Before the…
Read More Black Business Matters: Making COVID-19 Relief Equitable for Our Most Vulnerable EntrepreneursAn “ultimate power mix” from multiple sources is needed for a smarter, safer and more efficient electricity supply for Memphis
By Bill Bullock The City is on the verge of making some very important decisions regarding the future electricity supply for Memphis. My belief is…
Read More An “ultimate power mix” from multiple sources is needed for a smarter, safer and more efficient electricity supply for Memphis