Montee Lopez
Managing care while dealing with HIV & COVID-19
“Control the controllable; in the end that’s all any of us can do.”
LáDeia Joyce embraced that guiding principle many years ago. She uses her voice and platform to speak about HIV treatment, prevention and life with that virus after learning of her diagnosis three...
‘Operation: Grizzly Bear’ promises crackdown on interstate shootings
Just this year, there have been at least 32 confirmed cases of interstate/highway shootings in Memphis & Shelby County - with a possible 33rd happening just as law enforcement announced a relaunch of “Operation: Grizzly Bear” Wednesday morning.
The Memphis Police Department, Shelby County Sheriff’s...
Maximizing Manhood Symposium crafted to change outlook on manhood
What is manhood? What are the ways in which it is lacking? How can I, as a man, better myself for my home?
Those are just a few questions posed by organizer Lakethen Mason that he hopes can be answered during the Maximizing Manhood Symposium...
Chancellor modifies early voting order; all locations will be open on July 17
Now hear this: Early voting starts on Friday (July 13) and five sites will be open. Then on Tuesday (July 17), all 27 early voting locations will be open to cast ballots for the Aug. 2 election.
The fact that all early voting sites will be...
Early voting marathon hearing ends with win for NAACP, Shelby County Democrats
Another layer was added on Monday to the early voting mess that is spilling onto the Aug. 2. Elections.
Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins Monday evening ruled in favor of the Memphis Branch NAACP and the Shelby County Democratic Party. Each group filed a lawsuit challenging the...
Traffic stop yields felony drug, misdemeanor charges against activist Keedran Franklin
Well-known Memphis activist Keedran Franklin walked out of the jail complex at 201 Poplar with dozens waiting for him late Saturday night after his arrest on multiple drug and driving charges.
The charges include possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana (with intent to...
Election Commission target of two early-voting suits
The Shelby County Election Commission took a 1-2 punch combination on Friday as the NAACP Memphis Branch and the Shelby County Democratic Party filed Chancery Court lawsuits in the wake of controversy about early voting sites.
Early voting begins July 13. Multiple voting locations will...
Choice of Agricenter as lone early voting location causes stir
The Shelby County Election Commission is taking heat from Shelby County Democrats steaming over the decision to make the Agricenter the only early voting location open during the first few days that ballots can be cast.
“It’s a willful blindness,” Corey Strong, Shelby County Democratic...
ALICE MARIE JOHNSON: FINALLY FREE! “I have an appreciation I’ve never had before.”
“I’m not trying to be famous. I’m trying to be free.”
Alice Marie Johnson, 63, didn’t expect to have her life story catapulted into the global spotlight. A former felon enjoying newfound freedom after spending 22 years of what could have been a life sentence...
Memphis teen imprisoned for ‘safekeeping’ released on bond
Rosalyn “Bird” Holmes was released Wednesday afternoon on a $60,000 bond after spending 43 days in pre-trial, pre-indictment detention in a women’s prison, miles from her hometown of Memphis.
Just a few days after turning 16, Holmes was sent to the West Tennessee State Penitentiary...