The year called for individuals and groups of people to account for the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and an election cycle unlike any other in the nation’s history. TSD photographers captured much of it.
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- Testing for the COVID-19 viral menace got underway, with conditions, at several Greater Memphis-area locations, including the University of Tennessee Health Science Center operation set up at Tiger Lane at the Fairgrounds. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- Serving the Pentecostal Temple COGIC congregation is a way of life for Bishop Charles H. Mason Patterson Sr., even when a pandemic keeps the sanctuary closed and the parking lot becomes a place of worship. (Photos: Tyrone P. Easley)
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- With Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (left) and Mayor Jim Strickland (center with Memphis Strong mask) among those with him, Gov Bill Lee touted the partnership that resulted in turning the old Memphis Publishing Co. building into an emergency hospital site. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises/The New Tri-State Defender)
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- There was no fall football for SCS student-athletes and the disappointment was self-evident among this group of protesters unhappy with the decision. (Photos: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- Dr. Kimberly Brown, an ER physician at Baptist Hospital DeSoto in Southaven, said the coronavirus was having a disparate impact on low-wealth communities. (Courtesy photo)
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- Memphis-area protesters with varied backgrounds and interests found common ground pushing for an end to police brutality wherever its ugliness surfaces. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises.)
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- Devante Hill, a protest organizer, amplifies his message. (Photos: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- The evening of the fifth night of protests in Memphis included this show of force in response to demonstrators in the Beale Street Entertainment District. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- Reflecting the diversity that accented local protests in response to fatal shootings by police in various parts of the nation, marchers moved along South Main. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises.)
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- No stranger to protests as a member of the civil-rights-movement-renowned Lee family, attorney Peggy Jane Lee was among about 200 lawyers and supporters that rallied and marched downtown on a Wednesday morning. Organized by the Ben F. Jones Chapter of the National Bar Association, the Memphis Bar Association and the Association for Women Attorneys, the march was a way of saying time was up for racism in the community, including the legal system. (Photos: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- Back at his craft after a pandemic-forced break, William Gandy Jr. trims the hair of Melvin Cole, a long time customer. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- Faith Morris, chief marketing and external affairs officer for the National Civil Rights Museum, greeted this young visitor after the museum reopened following an extended closing forced by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- Waiting was a part of the process on Wednesday morning for those lined up to cast early-voting ballots at the precinct at Anointed Temple of Praise, 3939 Riverdale Rd. (Photo: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- The support for Marquita Bradshaw as she made a historic bid for a seat in the U.S. Senate was self-evident on this building along a stretch of Lamar. (Photo: Karanja A. Ajanaku)
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- Charlie Hardy, 61, feels a responsibility to vote. “That way, I won’t have nothing to argue or gripe about,” he said. (Photo: Lee Eric Smith)
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- On Election Day 2020, one Democrat and one Republican were assigned to a table, with 60 such combinations fanned-out across the FedExForum floor to count absentee ballots. (right) A trio of ballot counters confer. (Photos: Gary S. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)
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- SETTING COURSE FOR THE FUTURE: Morrow family friends and supporters were in attendance at Mt. Pisgah C.M.E. Church in Orange Mound for the infant baptism of Mason Mitchell Morrow conducted by Pastor Willie Ward. (Photo: Tyrone P. Easley)
