Joshua Moore, a 16-year-old Code Crew student, emerged on top of the National Black Data Processing Associates mobile app competition in Atlanta.
The 41st Annual National Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) Technology Conference and Career Fair took place August 1-3...
Billy Ray Turner, who is awaiting a September trial in the killing of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison on a separate gun charge.
Judge Lee Coffee sentenced Turner during a hearing Thursday...
by Adrian Sainz --
A jury on Monday convicted Billy Ray Turner in the slaying of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, whose bullet-riddled body was found in a field nearly 12 years ago in his hometown of Memphis.
The 12-person...
Local utility companies such as Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) can tap into $1 billion in available credit support that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is offering to offset the effects of COVID-19.
TVA President/CEO Jeff Lyash made that...
(Photo: Anna Webber/Getty Images for Dove Awards/Instagram)Gospel artist James Hall is filing a lawsuit against a jilted bishop who he claims got the wrong idea when Hall tried to show Christian fellowship.Hall said that when he helped Pentecostal Bishop Jeffrey...
Former Tennessee state Sen. Katrina Robinson – expelled from office after a conviction for using federal grant money on wedding expenses instead of the nursing school she operates – was sentenced Friday to a year of probation but no...
A mid-March press conference Downtown in front of the Shelby County Election Commission warned of legal action if African-American churches designated as voting sites were not opened for day one of early voting for the May 3 election.
The Election...
The Sage Restaurant was abuzz Friday night with Tennessee Regional Black Millennial Convention members, who came out to meet and greet each other in the kickoff of Memphis’ first gathering of the organization.
The convention -- dubbed the “Black Millennials...
"I'm sure at least one person you know owns a T-Shirt," Chima Onwuka stated in regards to a recent T-Shirt campaign launched by his non-profit organization, Grind City Cares.
Grind City Cares is a local non-profit organization that provides essential...
by Stacy M. Brown
The establishment of the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) Coronavirus Task Force and Resource Center is both timely and necessary, and publishers, partners, sponsors, and others should quickly rally around the concept, according to one distinguished...