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Community land trusts could help heal segregated cities

Thursday, September 24, 2020

South Memphis house boat

Memphis' eviction crisis isn't new. Podcast discusses how we got here and what we can do.

Cole BradleyFriday, September 04, 2020

Calls to LINC 2-1-1 centers have more than doubled during the pandemic. (Office of Jim Strickland)

In the pandemic and utility crisis, Memphis' librarians are the hidden heroes

Ashley DavisThursday, August 27, 2020

Alandria Ivory, a campaign worker for Memphis for All, takes a break during an early voting event at Glenview Community Center. (Andrea Morales)

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

Cole BradleyWednesday, August 26, 2020

School nurse Patricia McCraw prepares medication for a student at A.B. Hill Elementary. McCraw is part of a school nurse pilot program facilitated by Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Shelby County Schools, and Urban Child Institute. (Cat Evans)

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy good health. Experts discuss health inequity in Memphis.

Cole BradleyFriday, August 21, 2020

High Ground News Community Correspondent Tamara Cunningham. (Cole Bradley)

Memphis' Newest Reporters: Meet Community Correspondent Tamara Cunningham

Cole BradleyThursday, August 20, 2020

Frank Johnson looks towards North Memphis' Penn A Kem, LLC chemical plant on the left hand side of the road. On the right is Douglass High School. (Ziggy Mack)

The Pandemics: Decades of environmental racism is making COVID-19 more deadly in Black communities

Baris Gursakal & Cole BradleyThursday, August 20, 2020

Twenty-year veteran Shane Howell (left) stops by with paperwork as Private Michael Pence (right) works the Station 18 desk where crew members field emergency calls and help citizen who walk in with an emergency. (Ziggy Mack)

901RideChoice is reducing non-emergency calls to 911

Andrea ValenzuelaMonday, August 10, 2020

Shelia Williams, a 2020 Bickford-Bearwater High Ground News Community Correspondent. (Cole Bradley)

Memphis' Newest Reporters: Meet Community Correspondent Shelia Williams

Cole BradleyThursday, July 30, 2020

Jolie Shaw, a 2020 Bickford-Bearwater High Ground News Community Correspondent. (Cole Bradley)

Memphis' Newest Reporters: Meet Community Correspondent Jolie Shaw

Cole BradleyThursday, July 30, 2020

(Andrea Morales)

Candidates for Shelby County Schools Board of Education answer tough questions ahead of election

Cole BradleySunday, July 26, 2020

Executive Director John Paul Shaffer announces the BLDG Memphis rebrand in April 2017. It was previously the Community Development Council of Greater Memphis. (Submitted)

BLDG Memphis and new board look to the future of community development in and after the pandemic

Cole BradleyThursday, July 23, 2020

Soulsville in pictures 2

Mass evictions are coming. This South Memphis nonprofit is part of the solution.

Baris GursakalThursday, July 16, 2020

Sergeant Biggs, a Memphis Police Department mascot, greets members of the community outside Cathedral of Faith during the Klondike-Smokey City foster care awareness parade. (Brandon Dahlberg)

Urban League and Shelby County mayor to host virtual summit on police reform in the South

Cole BradleyFriday, July 10, 2020

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

Methodist-Le Bonheur creates new role to reduce Mid-South health disparities

Cole BradleyThursday, July 09, 2020

A nighttime view of the I Am A Man plaza outside of Clayborn Temple, near Downtown Memphis.

War veteran teams with former NFL player to host peaceful protest march, June 27

Cole BradleySaturday, June 27, 2020

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)

Video: Juneteenth in Douglass Park

Thursday, June 25, 2020

MPD

The whole world is talking about police reform. Black Lives Matter has solutions.

Cole BradleyMonday, June 22, 2020

Self-portrait by Sepia Coleman.

Home health aide: Working without PPE, sick leave is like ‘going in front of a firing squad’

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

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)

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

Ashley DavisThursday, May 21, 2020

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