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,…
Black 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…
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Memphis 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…
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Memphis 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…
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An “ultimate power mix” from multiple sources is needed for a smarter, safer and more efficient electricity supply for Memphis
By Bill Bullock The City is on the verge of making some very important decisions regarding the future electricity supply for Memphis. My belief is…
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Memphians At Home: A Renewed Obsession With Bookshelves
Home bookshelves fascinate as the new TV studio backdrops All over the airwaves during the shutdown, talking heads have been appearing against a backdrop of…
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Here are the people advising Memphis leaders on how students and teachers return to school in the fall
Feature Image: Superintendent Joris Ray speaks to reporters Monday about how the district will form plans to reopen Memphis school buildings. (Laura Faith Kebede/Chalkbeat) Laura Faith…
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Rediscovering the Delta
A long-lost study of the Mississippi Delta reveals the source of the blues By Jonathan Frey, for Chapter16.org In the early 1940s, Fisk University scholars…
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Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: May 1897. Spirits, Sightings, May-hem
Your correspondent takes you to points across the city including Beale Street, the Criminal Courts, Odd Fellows Hall, the Lyceum Theater, and Virginia Avenue, where…
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Healthy Memphis Initiative is using culinary medicine to help Memphians live better and longer
By Cole Bradley, for High Ground News Anyone who’s visited the Crosstown Concourse has likely seen the Church Health Nutrition Hub. It’s the ultra-modern teaching…
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Can’t find daycare? Can’t do social distancing while on the job?
Feature Image: Illustration by Surakit. (Adobe Stock image) Then here’s what you should do, says Memphis labor and employment expert, Cindy Ettingoff. By Tammy Joyner, for…
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