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,…
How the Water Flows: Flint, Michigan vs. Memphis, Tennessee
You are halfway there. The race is almost done. You have been training for this all year and have been giving your all for thirteen…
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Combating Predatory Investors
More Regulation & Advocacy For Low-Income Home Renters May Help in the Battle Against Out-of-Town Investors Like Cerberus On Christmas Day 2018, Washington Post reporters Todd…
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Childhood Impressions Cut Deep
One Halloween when I was five or six, a rumor went around, shared by a couple of neighborhood kids, that some house was passing out…
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The Concept of Shared Prosperity
By Leslie Smith, BLDG Memphis In April 2019, the publication The Atlantic and the collaboration The Shared Prosperity Partnership gathered local policymakers and community leaders…
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Seeing Red II: South Memphis CDC brings investment back to Memphis’ formerly redlined communities
Originally published April, 2019. Feature Image: Roshun Austin, president and CEO of The Works, Inc. holds a redlining map created in the 1930s. (Ziggy Mack)…
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Welcome to The Equitable Issue
“You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in…
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Legal Tools for Assuring the Quality of Residential Rental Properties
Affordable, quality housing is a basic human need. But access to such housing eludes many families in Memphis and other American communities. Even where affordable housing…
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Seeing Red I: Mapping 90 years of redlining in Memphis
Originally published March, 2019. Feature Image: A young girl plays hide and seek in front of shuttered apartment buildings on Tate Street. (Andrea Morales) By…
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Gov. Lee’s voucher proposal will help families pay for private school. But will black Memphis students go where they were historically shunned?
Originally published March, 2019. Feature Image: The Briarcrest High School band at a 2016 football game against St. George’s. (Stan Carroll/The Commercial Appeal) Laura Faith Kebede,…
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Brief History of Riverside Drive in Historic Photos
Before Tom Lee Park, Riverside Drive evolved from an unstable bank along the bluff in the 1930s to a scenic drive – “a fresh beautiful…
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