There was something extra special about last week's Teacher Appreciation celebrations.
As an educator, I had the opportunity to work with some great classroom teachers during my career. But given what teachers have endured over the last three years, my...
The Rev. Sherman Helton’s 45th pastoral anniversary celebration was an appreciative look at the past and a hopeful, joyous, and optimistic look toward the future.
The May 5 “Helton Gala” lauded Helton’s 45 years as pastor of New Hope Baptist...
The already-serpentine pending lawsuit over how long a person must live in Memphis to be eligible to run for mayor took another loop this week when the Shelby County Election Commission was dropped as a defendant.
The subtraction leaves the...
Comcast – via Comcast Rise – has set a course to award grant packages to 100 small businesses in Memphis and Shelby County. Those selected will be in line for business consultation services, educational resources, a $5,000 monetary grant,...
Five years into his pastorship of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church-Westwood, the Rev. Melvin D. Watkins Jr. is reflective about “precarious and unsafe shifts in the culture” that don’t “bode well for the generations coming up behind us.”
Fresh off Mt....
Memphis City Council members Tuesday (May 2) passed the first of three votes on a proposed set of new district boundaries before the upcoming Oct. 5 city elections.
Delayed for weeks, the consent agenda item passed on an 8-0-2 vote....
As we wrap up state TCAP testing this week, I congratulate and commend all our teachers and administrators for the hard work put in this school year to improve the achievement levels of our children.
Now the waiting begins.
This always...
Memphis voters next year will get a chance to decide how long candidates for mayor and City Council must live in Memphis prior to an election.
The council on Tuesday (April 25) approved the third reading and final vote to...
by Clennon “Wayne” Murray and Brandon Murray --
The highly anticipated and long-awaited Murray-Haley Family Reunion is set for July 20 through July 23 and will spread over Memphis, Henning and Ripley.
The planning of the reunion event was initially discussed...
Bishop Charles H. Mason Patterson Sr. asked God to show him a “new face” for evangelism and God gave him bikers.
Motorcycle riders gathered Sunday (April 23) at Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ for a “City-wide Blessing of...