Radio Days
By Robert Lanier, While young people today may not know that an old-time radio was once like a piece of furniture in virtually every household,…
Lamar Avenue Rezoning, Neighborhood Revitalization
Planning leaders discuss the rezoning of this auto-centric corridor and new approaches to improving livability along major commercial thoroughfares like Lamar, including Summer and Union…
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Love Letter to the Dollyverse
Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural pays unique tribute to Dolly Parton By Emily Choate, for Chapter16.org Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural—part biography, part memoir,…
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Alcy-Ball: Blight a first step to transforming the community
Friday, October 2nd, Alcy-Ball, Memphis – In the crisp cool air of a bright fall morning and with the static hum of the I-240 nearby,…
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Home, Happiness, and Hurt
Writers of color consider what it means to belong in the South By Kashif Andrew Graham for Chapter16.org A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of…
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Same War, Same General
Connor Towne O’Neill grapples with America’s legacy of white supremacy By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org In 2015, journalist Connor Towne O’Neill was on a reporting…
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What We’ll Miss and What We’ll Share
The meaning of the Southern Festival of Books in a season of loss By Steve Haruch for Chapter16.org The other day I was texting with…
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Coming apart, and back together, with William Luke White
White’s eponymous solo debut from Nine Mile Records echoes the times By Shannon Seaton, for StoryBoard’s SoundBoard Inspiration is so often driven by challenge. Sometimes…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, September 30, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent reflects on the differences and similarities between the Covid-19 pandemic and World War II in another letter to Colonel…
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A segregated education in 1950’s Memphis
Adapted from Woodson J. Savage III’s Savage Family Tree, a true story of growing up in a segregated West Tennessee town By Woody J. Savage…
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The Past Is Never Dead
A new memoir by Lawrence Wells pulls back the curtain on a Southern literary community By Tina Chambers for Chapter16.org In his engaging memoir, In Faulkner’s…
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