Love List 2020, Day 18: Pappy and Jimmy’s Restaurant
By Brantley Ellzey This whackadoo souvenir plate has hung in the kitchen at Ellfrow (our house name) for over twenty-five years and always makes me…
Read More Love List 2020, Day 18: Pappy and Jimmy’s Restaurant‘Nice Young Man. Don’t Harm.’ A black mother’s plea on Nextdoor to protect her 14-year-old son
Feature Image: Sonja Jackson and her son. Photos provided by Jackson. Sonja Jackson’s post was prompted by the police killing of George Floyd and vigilante…
Read More ‘Nice Young Man. Don’t Harm.’ A black mother’s plea on Nextdoor to protect her 14-year-old sonWhat We Miss: Memorializing This Holiday Weekend
This is the holiday weekend I would look forward to for months. We have a few war veterans in our family who have passed, and…
Read More What We Miss: Memorializing This Holiday WeekendVIRTUAL CELEBRATE WHAT’S RIGHT: MEMPHIS MUSIC IN THE KEY OF E PANEL
Celebrate What’s Right: Memphis Music in the Key of E: Education, Equity, and Economics Memphis and music go hand-in-hand. We are a city that started…
Read More VIRTUAL CELEBRATE WHAT’S RIGHT: MEMPHIS MUSIC IN THE KEY OF E PANELPictures of a Life
In Richard Alley’s Amelia Thorn, a woman of her time becomes a woman ahead of her time By Faye Jones, for Chapter16 Memphis writer and editor…
Read More Pictures of a LifeIntroducing ‘Love List 2020,’ Brantley Ellzey’s daily odes to joy and inspiration
By Brantley Ellzey Forward: In January of this year, I began a daily blog on Facebook called Love List 2020. I hoped it would act…
Read More Introducing ‘Love List 2020,’ Brantley Ellzey’s daily odes to joy and inspirationWhen COVID-19 relief didn’t come, Douglass residents stepped up for their own
By Ashley Davis, for High Ground News There’s been a flood of relief efforts in response to Covid-19, but are resources getting to the Memphis…
Read More When COVID-19 relief didn’t come, Douglass residents stepped up for their ownBlack Business Matters: Making COVID-19 Relief Equitable for Our Most Vulnerable Entrepreneurs
This article was originally published by Medium, for Medium’s Epicenter Memphis page. Republished with permission. By Anthony Young, Capital Executive in Residence for Epicenter Before the…
Read More Black Business Matters: Making COVID-19 Relief Equitable for Our Most Vulnerable EntrepreneursMemphis summer learning will be online and smaller than usual
Feature Image: In this file photo from 2017, then-principal Debra Martin asks Alton Elementary students who will be attending the district’s summer learning academy. (Laura Faith…
Read More Memphis summer learning will be online and smaller than usualMemphis Music Hub shares their 2020 list* of songs released by Memphis artists
*The list so far! The Memphis Music Hub has shared their 2020 list of songs released by Memphis artists so far this year. And, as…
Read More Memphis Music Hub shares their 2020 list* of songs released by Memphis artists