Aries Clark, 16, is the latest black teen to be shot and killed by police, this time it happened in Arkansas outside a youth treatment center.Clark was at East Arkansas Youth Services on Tuesday when he was shot and...
A Memphis-based rapper who was headlining the Little Rock, Ark., show where 28 people were injured, was arrested in connection with the melee on Sunday in Alabama.
Al.com reports that 25-year-old Ricky Hampton, better known as Finese 2Tymes, was arrested...
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by Warren Roseborough, Special to TSDMemphis.com
The Memphis Hustle, The Memphis Grizzlies G-League affiliate, kicked off their inaugural game on Saturday Nov. 4, pulling out all the stops! There were face paintings, giveaways, Grizz Girls, The Blue Bunch...
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — The family of a man killed in 1966 by the Ku Klux Klan received a private preview Friday of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum that is opening next month.
Vernon Dahmer (DAY'-mur) of...
A new public education fellowship for people of color will spotlight issues of equity and connect stakeholders of diverse backgrounds in the quest to improve student achievement across Tennessee.
Sixteen people in the first class of Mosaic Fellows were named...
by Johnnie Turner and Steve Mulroy, Special to The New Tri-State Defender
In November 1974, the voters of Ann Arbor, Mich. approved the use of an innovative election method called Instant Runoff Voting (IRV).
Five months later, IRV allowed the election of...
by Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press
NASHVILLE — Archaeologists are rolling high-powered radar gear through the thick outfield weeds and empty parking lots of an abandoned Nashville baseball stadium, looking for hints of unmarked graves of slaves and free black men...
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi-born civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is being commemorated Friday on what would have been her 100th birthday.
Community gatherings are being held in her hometown of Ruleville, where a larger-than-life...
When we at TSDMemphis.com asked our readers to share their thoughts and condolences about our late publisher, Bernal E. Smith II, we expected dozens of responses; that was no surprise. Nor was it surprising to see the range of...
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — A newly revamped website focuses on efforts to change a Southern state that has grappled with a long history of racial injustice.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Project is sponsored by the William Winter...