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,…
Memories of Massacre
Historians Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan illuminate a tragic chapter in Memphis history Originally published March 3, 2020 By Aram Goudsouzian, for Chapter16.org On May…
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Bagpipe Player Wanted
Eva’s SCRUMBLES can be downloaded and printed for your scrumbled pleasure. Scrumbling for answers? They can be found here.
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Love List 2020, Day 32: Modernism & the “decorated shed”
By Brantley Ellzey In October 1968, the architects and married couple Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, along with Steven Izenour and twelve Yale architecture…
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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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When a White Woman Accuses a Black Man
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…
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A Sanctuary In Our Caffeine Culture: My Cup of Tea, Orange Mound
Words and Photos by Kelly King Howe “See the teacups that make up that chandler?” Cheryl Henderson’s voice trembled with emotion as she referred to…
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And 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…
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Jim Crow had no borders: The Negro Motorist Green-Book
Originally published in September 2018 By Mark Fleischer It was called The Mother Road. The Will Rogers Highway. The Main Street of America. It was…
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Memphis student: ‘George Floyd complied and he was still killed. What can we do at this point?’
Feature Image: In July 2019, black male students gather at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis to launch Superintendent Joris Ray’s initiative to increase…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: June 2, 2020
Your correspondent reacts to the violence scarring our land by drafting a letter to the nation’s greatest civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
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