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As I write this, I hear the gentle drops of rain against the window. It's supposed to rain most of the day today, winding...
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Depending on who you ask — or which sports website you check — University of Memphis star WR Anthony Miller is anywhere from the...
Candidate’s removal has local Democrats fuming
Controversy swirls within Democratic Party leadership on the state and local levels concerning a recent decision by Mary Mancini, chairman of the Tennessee Democratic...
Vision 2020 and the ‘adopt-a-community’ approach
The New Tri-State Defender’s yearlong MLK50 reporting project continues with this second installment of MLK50: The view from 38126. Zeroed in on the city’s...
Listen up, 38126 has a voice
by Ashlei Williams
Memories that stick with Jo Ellen Bates bring to mind a bustling South Memphis so vastly different from how a slice of...
Fred Jones & Willie Gregory: ‘Brothers’ from 38126
Fred Jones and Willie Gregory have taken distinctly different paths to success. If they reversed course, their roads would lead them to within a...
The LeMoyne-Owen College and 38126
by Canisha Robertson
I am a senior at The LeMoyne-Owen College. This semester I am doing a journalism internship with The New Tri-State Defender. This...
Herenton: ‘Was I going to be a boy or a man?’
Dr. Willie W. Herenton was the 28-year-old principal of Larose Elementary School – 38126 in South Memphis – when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
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