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Feature Story Products from Elle's Elixirs will be featured in the BOXLOT holiday market today and tomorrow. (Submitted, Elle's Elixirs) High Ground

Shop local, shop safe with these virtual holiday markets

Cole BradleyFriday, December 4, 2020
Feature Story Crab legs with Drop Sauce is a best-seller at Straight Drop Seafood in North Memphis. (Straight Drop Seafood) High GroundEntrepreneurship

New Straight Drop Seafood is the right thing to crave

Tamara CunninghamThursday, November 26, 2020
Feature Story An employee of La Michoacana ice cream and paleta shop serves up a fruit cup with tajin. (Forever Ready Productions) High GroundEntrepreneurship

Video: Paletas in the pandemic with La Michoacana

Cole BradleyThursday, November 5, 2020
Feature Story Lauren Wiliams-Batiste, owner of the Memphis-based Elle's Elixirs. (Lauren Wiliams-Batiste) High GroundEntrepreneurship

Women Working It: Lauren Williams-Batiste talks tea, CBD, and learning to market yourself

Brandi HunterThursday, October 8, 2020
Feature Story Alandria Ivory, a campaign worker for Memphis for All, takes a break during an early voting event at Glenview Community Center. (Andrea Morales) High GroundCommunity Development

Food giveaway and voter registration drive coming to North Memphis August 28

Cole BradleyWednesday, August 26, 2020
Feature Story To celebrate Juneteenth 2020, The Time is Now Douglass, the Official Black Lives Matter Memphis Chapter, and Memphis Artists for Change partnered to supply produce boxes, free lunch from local food trucks, masks, and hand sanitizer. (Forever Ready) High GroundCommunity Development

Video: Juneteenth in Douglass Park

Thursday, June 25, 2020
Feature Story OtherFoods Kitchen is located at 1249 Heistan Place and serves as a space for food-based startups to kickoff. (Ramona Springfield) High GroundEntrepreneurship

OtherFoods Kitchen helps startups cook up something great in Memphis

Ramona SpringfieldThursday, June 4, 2020
Feature Story Rufus Sykes cracks a smile as he holds the door open for a customer at the South Memphis Grocery on West Mallory Avenue. Sykes co-owns the corner store with other family members. (Malik Martin) High GroundEntrepreneurship

Corner Stores: A South Memphis love story

Ivy K. ArnoldWednesday, June 3, 2020
Feature Story The Time is Now Douglass Community Development Corporation hosted a mobile food pantry in the Douglass neighborhood on April 16th. It was the first mobile pantry held in Douglass since the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Shelby County. (Submitted) High GroundHealthy Communities

When COVID-19 relief didn't come, Douglass residents stepped up for their own

Ashley DavisThursday, May 21, 2020
Feature Story (Church Health) High GroundHealthy Communities

Healthy Memphis Initiative is using culinary medicine to help Memphians live better and longer

Cole BradleySaturday, May 16, 2020
Feature Story JUICE Orange Mound board members Kenya Holmes (L) and Broderick Conneser deliver supplies to a senior in Orange Mound. JUICE asked residents to text what supplies they needed and personalized orders before delivery via CAREavan. (Cole Bradley) High GroundCommunity Development

The Unreachables: Memphis nonprofit meets its no-tech neighbors at their doorsteps (Quick Read)

Cole BradleyTuesday, May 12, 2020
Feature Story (Forever Ready Productions) High GroundKids and Education

Video: Le Bonheur's five easy ways to keep kids healthy from home

Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Feature Story A Neighborhood Christian Center volunteer preps meals for families in response to Covid-19. (Submitted) High GroundHealthy Communities

Neighborhood Christian Center gives food and lifts spirits for families in crisis

Ashley DavisWednesday, April 22, 2020
Feature Story A sign on the door of Miss Girlee’s Soul Food Restaurant in North Memphis announces its closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Ashley Davis) High GroundHealthy Communities

In food deserts, COVID-related restaurant closures are especially devastating.

Ashley DavisThursday, March 26, 2020
Feature Story Dwayne Chaffen and Rick Askew co-own Grindhouse Coffee. They currently sell branded bags of locally-roasted coffee online but hope to open a brick-and-mortar coffee shop in Whitehaven. (Ziggy Mack) High GroundEntrepreneurship

Whitehaven wants a coffee shop. Local entrepreneurs are stepping up.

Jim ColemanWednesday, March 11, 2020
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