Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis June 10, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Responding to the ongoing injustices experienced by black Americans, your correspondent pens a letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor…
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Race, wealth, and literacy in Memphis: Why third grade matters
Originally published April, 2020. Feature Image: Teacher Brian Hanson teaching ALLMemphis’ custom phonics curriculum to a group of students at Power Center Academy Elementary School…
Paths of Resistance
Multimedia artist Jessica Ingram explores the South’s racist history in Road Through Midnight By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org In the preface of Road Through Midnight, Jessica Ingram…
Seeing Red I: Mapping 90 years of redlining in Memphis
Originally published March, 2019. Feature Image: A young girl plays hide and seek in front of shuttered apartment buildings on Tate Street. (Andrea Morales) By…
People’s power: Memphis’ early history of race, resistance, and Black political power
Originally published June, 2018. Feature Image: The front of the Burkle estate and Slave Haven museum as seen from North Second Street. (Brandon Dahlberg) By…
Dateline: Memphis, June 1937
By Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent explains the significant events of this month in Memphis history including a government official’s visit to the Bluff City, a…
Aaron James’ Memphis, A Family Perspective
This is the first in a series, chronicling Memphian Aaron James’ journey in tracing his Memphis family roots. The family I had spent the first…