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…
Read More Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis June 10, 2020When 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…
Read More When a White Woman Accuses a Black ManA 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…
Read More A Sanctuary In Our Caffeine Culture: My Cup of Tea, Orange MoundAnd 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…
Read More And what is it that America has failed to hear?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…
Read More Jim Crow had no borders: The Negro Motorist Green-BookMemphis 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…
Read More Memphis student: ‘George Floyd complied and he was still killed. What can we do at this point?’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.…
Read More Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: June 2, 2020The fire this time: Memphis’ response to police violence and civil unrest
“Do not gentrify protests or sanitize the fight for freedom,” warns Rev. Earle J. Fisher. “We cannot micromanage how people fight for their freedom.” Feature…
Read More The fire this time: Memphis’ response to police violence and civil unrestJOIN THE ‘INN’ CROWD: Room In The Inn aims to double homeless shelter network
Room In The Inn – Memphis currently organizes a network of 55 local faith communities to provide shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Memphis and…
Read More JOIN THE ‘INN’ CROWD: Room In The Inn aims to double homeless shelter networkWho gets paid for our world-renowned sound? Discussion explores equity, economics of Memphis music
Feature Image: Stax Museum of American Soul Music. (Andrew Breig) By Cole Bradley, for High Ground News Music is a cornerstone of Memphis’ culture and…
Read More Who gets paid for our world-renowned sound? Discussion explores equity, economics of Memphis music