Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell

Fond memories and cries for justice permeated a memorial service Tuesday (Jan. 17) for Tyre D. Nichols, who died Jan. 10, three days after being injured during an encounter with Memphis police officers. About 70 people gathered at the M. J. Edwards Funeral Home chapel,...

Historic Union Valley Baptist was the setting last Sunday (Jan. 8) for the 30th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Awards presentation, which was dedicated to Union Valley’s longest-serving pastor, Dr. Herbert O. Kneeland. “Pastor Kneeland was always so supportive of everything we tried...

What happens when a hopeful and ambitious seventh grader begins to imagine the possibilities for growth and revitalization in his small, impoverished hometown? Eighteen-year-old Jaylen Smith answered that question on Dec. 6 when he won a mayoral runoff election for mayor in Earle, Arkansas. He...

The intersection of youth and crime drew a cross section of nearly 400 community leaders and concerned residents to a South Memphis church for assessments and thoughts about problem-solving ways forward. A multi-purpose meeting space at New Salem Missionary Baptist Church was jammed with attendees...

“To everything, there is a season. Seasons change, everything changes, and it is time,” said Faith Morris, who has stepped away from the position of chief marketing and external affairs officer of the National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM). After an announcement in early December, Morris'...

After a five-month search and consultations with some of the most gifted thought leaders and nonprofit executives, the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) Board of Directors appointed Shante K. Avant as the organization’s new president and chief executive officer. Avant, the WFGM’s vice...

In the aftermath of a Dec. 29 night-time fire that claimed the life of a 72-year-old resident of Feels Like Home Senior Lifestyle Residences, managing member Vanecia Belser Kimbrow Tuesday (Jan. 3) tearfully struggled to explain the emotional toll of the tragedy. Kimbrow called a...

Early voting begins Wednesday (Jan. 4) for the special primary election to fill the state House of Representatives seat (District 86) left vacant by the death of long-time Rep. Barbara Cooper, who died Oct. 25. Ten candidates are on the Democratic primary ballot. The winner...

A community call for help was issued Friday afternoon for displaced seniors of the Feels Like Home Senior Lifestyles Residences gutted by an intense fire that killed one resident and warranted transporting two others to the Regional One Burn Unit. The Memphis Fire Department responded...

It has been all hands on deck this week as private citizens, government officials, businesses, and organizations garnered the resources needed to provide residents with safe drinking water. The water crisis developed when brutal below-freezing temperatures burst water mains, resulting in low-water pressure or no...