Visionary Fred Jones Jr. is the founder of the Southern Heritage Classic and the face of the annual cultural celebration, which celebrates 30 years this month. Helping to make sure that what “Fred dreams becomes the reality” is a...
Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis) recalled the grim day that he witnessed violence outside of his apartment as a 4-year-old growing up in Los Angeles.
“I remember seeing a man lying outside on the steps, and he was bleeding...
Luberta Elliott Smith, the widow of the first African American elected mayor of Holly Springs, Miss., and a long-serving teacher in the Marshall County Schools system, passed on Monday at Christopher’s Personal Care Home in Holly Springs.
She was 84.
The...
Estella Mayhue-Greer, who has led the Mid South Food Bank as President and CEO since 2011, will retire from the organization effective December 31, 2019.
Mayhue-Greer joined Mid-South Food Bank in 1996 as agency relations director, working with the Food...
The ongoing journey to freedom will serve as an understood theme during “Memphis Cares2” at Crump Stadium on Sunday (April 7), beginning at 3 p.m.
The event will be a free re-creation of the original Memphis Cares, April 7, 1968.
In...
When Westwood High School graduate Kevin Branch was promoted to colonel – or “full bird” for the Army nerds – in the U.S. Armed Forces on Jan. 11, he was extremely grateful that both of his parents were able...
It was quite apparent from the beginning of Monday’s Shelby County Commission meeting that the vote on Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ nomination of Phyllis Aluko to head the Public Defender’s office was merely a formality.
Aluko, who had been...
Small business owner Nyah Nile talks “God, grace and guts” on “Where Do We Go From Here?” on TSDRadio.
Nile, the founder, CEO and administrator of PremiereChoice, a West Memphis-based, in-home care services company, shares here faith-based journey with TSD...
Four months into his new role as TVA’s executive director for Memphis, Mark Creech already has seen and heard enough to know that he has some work to do to address the “TVALiteracy” gap.
He made good use of Black...
Tim Green may be a science teacher, but one of his favorite metaphors to tell students is about kitchen appliances.
Green was one of seven educators and students who participated in a February storytelling night hosted by Chalkbeat Tennessee, Spillit,...