Mixed emotions circulated the Frayser Exchange Club on Thursday as community leaders deviated from their scheduled agenda to focused on the events that had transpired in their community less than 24 hours before. Just blocks away, 20-year-old Brandon Webber...
After five months of planning, organizers of Up the Vote 901 are gearing up for what they’re expecting to be an eventful display of democracy at the upcoming People’s Convention.
So far, 18 candidates in the upcoming October 3 election,...
God, love and ministry was a trinity embodied by the life of the Rev. Ralph White, the servant-oriented pastor of Bloomfield Full Gospel Baptist Church in South Memphis. Rev. White was officiating a funeral when he passed away Saturday.
“So...
With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Jim Strickland signed Memphis 3.0 into motion via an executive order, Tuesday. The signing occurred despite the handful of protestors outside of the South Memphis development center where the ceremony took place....
The Shelby County Democratic Party has called a special meeting to determine the fate of its recently elected chairman.
The decision was made Thursday during the executive committee’s first meeting since Michael Harris was elected chairman in April. Party member...
The survey results are in and nearly 2,000 Memphians have vocalized the issues that matter to them in the upcoming October 3 election.
It’s a part of an online survey distributed by organizers of the People’s Convention, a non-partisan grassroots...
Boxing at the Pipkin 3 has evolved into an all-Memphis thing, with its organizers declaring, “This boxing event has really taken on momentum.”
The youth-oriented affair at the Fairgrounds (940 Early Maxwell) is set for the evening of April 3...
by Dena S. Owens --
What Mayor Jim Strickland and his administration call “a clerical error” is turning up the heat on what already was a hot mayoral race-issue: the amount that the City of Memphis spends – and...
With the goal of “nothing less than to be a pioneer in pretrial services,” Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris has appointed Llana Greer as executive director of Pretrial Services for Shelby County.
“We plan to expand the use of efficient,...
District 7 Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer chose to announce her decision to run for mayor of Memphis first in The New Tri-State Defender last week.
Since then, Sawyer has formally unveiled her candidacy at Makeda's Cookies' downtown and followed that...