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,…
The Negro Leagues Come To Memphis
This article was originally published both in print and online in the summer of 2019 – we have updated it and are republishing for the…
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The Eviction Crisis
Stormy days are ahead unless we do something “I think if we want our recovery from the growing eviction issue to look the way we…
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Union Avenue Anthology. Part I, The Plan of Memphis: 1783-1827
A History of Memphis’ Most Maligned Street “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner’s famous line, from his 1951 novel Requiem…
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Rev. Steve Montgomery Died Today And The Universe Quaked
By Tom Jones, Smart City Memphis There are some people whose deaths make me feel that the universe is quaking. Rev. Steve Montgomery, who died this…
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Slingshot Memphis and MDRC announce partnership to improve anti-poverty programs
MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 31, 2020 – Slingshot Memphis and MDRC today announce a collaborative, working partnership in Memphis, Tennessee — the first of its kind in the…
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Monologues for Healing, from the Women Who Lived Them
Prison Stories “I ran like she told me to do. A neighbor man grabbed me up and carried me across the street to his porch…
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Behind “Prison Stories”: A Storytelling Program For Healing
A much-needed program, now over, that resonates through today’s Black Lives Matter movement Originally published in the November 2018 print edition of StoryBoard By Elaine…
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Chapter16: Giving Women a Voice
Vivien Mildenberger paints a picture of an obscure Tennessee figure in the fight for women’s suffrage By Julie Danielson for Chapter16.org In 1920, Harry Burn…
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Despite the pandemic, Generation Z activists took to the streets. Are the polls next?
Feature image: Allyson Smith helps lead a June 5, 2020, protest that proceeded through Cooper-Young and denounced police brutality and racist systems. Photo by Andrea…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis July 15, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
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