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…
Read More Slingshot Memphis and MDRC announce partnership to improve anti-poverty programsMonologues 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…
Read More Monologues for Healing, from the Women Who Lived ThemBehind “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…
Read More Behind “Prison Stories”: A Storytelling Program For HealingChapter16: 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…
Read More Chapter16: Giving Women a VoiceDespite 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…
Read More Despite the pandemic, Generation Z activists took to the streets. Are the polls next?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,…
Read More Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis July 15, 2020Here Lies The Virus
Eva’s SCRUMBLES can be downloaded and printed for your scrumbled pleasure. Can’t scrumble-up the answer? All your answers can be found here.
Read More Here Lies The VirusCreatively Coping: Adventure in a confined space, with Katie Burriss
One of six artists profiled in Creatively Coping, Kristin Jones’s essay on the therapeutic power of working with one’s hands during uncertain times I can’t help…
Read More Creatively Coping: Adventure in a confined space, with Katie BurrissMass evictions are coming. This South Memphis nonprofit is part of the solution.
Originally published July 16, 2020, by Baris Gursakal, for High Ground News A national wave of evictions loom as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to build…
Read More Mass evictions are coming. This South Memphis nonprofit is part of the solution.Look Ma, I Amended the U.S. Constitution!
By John Matthews Next month marks the 100th anniversary of universal women’s suffrage in America. The right for all females to vote in all elections was secured…
Read More Look Ma, I Amended the U.S. Constitution!