Ken Moody’s 20-year tenure in Memphis city government ends Friday (March 3) as he exits City Hall to take on a new role at the University of Memphis.
Moody, special assistant to Mayor Jim Strickland for most of the last...
A charter school in Orange Mound has received a $5,000 grant towards the innovation of its parent resource center on Friday, November 17.
Arrow Academy of Excellence was awarded the grant last Friday (November 17) from First Tennessee’s Community Development...
by Charles Elliott --
Even before the pandemic, LeMoyne-Owen College was working on ways to provide instructional options for our students.
When the difficult decision was made to close the campus to keep our LOC family safe, we immediately took action...
by Howard Robertson
Special to The New Tri-State Defender
My family and black colleges go way back. For the roughly five generations black colleges have even existed, my family relationships with them are easily traced back through four of them. My...
Dr. Alicia Golston has been promoted to dean of students at Rhodes College, effective July 1, 2019. She served as associate dean of students in 2017 and became associate dean for student experience in 2018.
Prior to joining Rhodes, Golston...
Dr. Vernell Bennett-Fairs sat down this week with The New Tri-State Defender to give a vivid account of her journey to the LeMoyne-Owen College President’s Office.
“I was going to be the first vocalist to be successful across all the...
The architect of one of Shelby County Schools’ school improvement programs is out as its leader just as the program is set to double in size.
The Memphis district announced in a robocall to parents and staff of the Whitehaven...
The 100 Black Men of Memphis chapter this week got a $20,000 boost from the Shelby County Board of Commissioners in the group’s effort to raise funds for the scholarship named in honor of Bernal E. Smith II, the...
The “Product of” campaign was created to promote the fact that Shelby County Schools nurtures successful and influential Memphians. It wasn’t necessarily designed to be felt on the national level, but no one involved in its creation would have...
Once a suburb thriving with amenities, Whitehaven is saddled with outside perceptions that the neighborhood is poor because its demographics flipped from white to black. Its native retailers, like Southland Mall (the oldest operating mall in Memphis), know the...