Dialogue: Jacqueline Wallace and Willy Bearden
Since becoming President of Friends of the Library, Jacqueline Wallace has put her creative and entrepreneurial skills to work building more and more programs for…
Read More Dialogue: Jacqueline Wallace and Willy BeardenTo Print or Not To Print. That Is the Question.
While the COVID pandemic threatens another struggling institution – the newspaper – it is already widening a deadly divide between the informed and misinformed. The…
Read More To Print or Not To Print. That Is the Question.Spring Collection: The Dogwoods Are Here
The Mid-South is in full spring bloom, and the mighty dogwoods are out, reaching for the sun and sky, busting for breath and life, outdoors.…
Read More Spring Collection: The Dogwoods Are HereOff the Endangered List: The Old Police Building on Adams
Profile #5 in StoryBoard’s look at progress in historic preservation over the last decade Built in 1911, the old Central police building at 128 Adams…
Read More Off the Endangered List: The Old Police Building on AdamsSubstitute teacher’s plan to revitalize his community derailed by COVID-19
Frank Johnson: ‘We can’t go back to the normal way of doing things because the normal in this country is dangerous.’ Image: Self portrait by…
Read More Substitute teacher’s plan to revitalize his community derailed by COVID-19Dan Spector, Cooper-Young. COVID Claims a True Midtowner
Dan Spector, August 25, 1951 – March 31, 2020 As a writer, when someone passes away, we set aside our own feelings and write only…
Read More Dan Spector, Cooper-Young. COVID Claims a True MidtownerSchools closed and suddenly you’re homeschooling? I’m Jim, and I can help.
By Jim Coleman, for High Ground News All Memphis-area schools are officially closed through April 24 in compliance with the state governor, but the date to reopen is…
Read More Schools closed and suddenly you’re homeschooling? I’m Jim, and I can help.Early History of The “U Club”
At the intersections of Cleveland Street, Central Avenue and Lamar Avenue, just outside of the Central Garden’s official western border, resides the University Club –…
Read More Early History of The “U Club”I’m a housekeeper and DJ—my income is now zero. I’m one of the lucky ones.
The following is part of an essay series from Memphis workers affected by COVID-19. The series is produced by MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in partnership with High…
Read More I’m a housekeeper and DJ—my income is now zero. I’m one of the lucky ones.Healing from “unimaginable abuse” in rural Mid-South
Sin Child is Angela Howard’s powerful debut, her memoir of honesty and optimism in the face of abuse Review by Susan Cushman Mississippi native Angela…
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