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Feature Story Denise Oher sits on a neighbor's porch and looks out over the new Foote Park at South City development. Oher is a former Foote Homes resident who has chosen to return after being displaced for the demolition of Foote Homes. (Ziggy Mack) Community Development

Could Memphis' South City be the new gold standard for U.S. public housing?

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyWednesday, June 23, 2021
Feature Story Jani Radhakrishnan gives a talk at a previous TEDxMemphis event on the topic "From 'What do you do for work?' to 'What’s your story?'" (Submittted) Arts and Culture

Speakers wanted for 2021 TEDxMemphis

Sarah RushakoffThursday, June 3, 2021
Feature Story A family picks up activity sheets and grab-and-go craft kits at the North Branch Library. The kids are part of Memphis Public Libraries' strategy for helping kids with learning and literacy from home during the pandemic. (Memphis Library Foundation) Kids and Education

Memphis libraries' expanded programs promise a summer of fun

Sarah RushakoffThursday, May 20, 2021
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Video: Teaching teachers to help kids cope with trauma

Cole BradleySaturday, May 1, 2021
Feature Story The Three(i) Creative Communications team. (Submitted) Technology and Innovation

This virtual "do-gooder" series is attracting a surprising audience

Sarah RushakoffWednesday, April 28, 2021
Feature Story UT Healthy Communities

UTHSC to host virtual addiction symposium for health care professionals and the public, May 4

Sarah RushakoffWednesday, April 14, 2021
Feature Story Lj Abraham is the founder of 901 Community Fridges. Abraham launched the organization in January to help bridge the food gap for Memphians in need. (Sarah Rushakoff) Healthy Communities

901 Community Fridges is feeding a need and looking to grow

Sarah RushakoffMonday, April 5, 2021
Feature Story Architect Mario Walker won first prize in the competition to imagine new uses for the historic Highland Heights United Methodist Church. The contest is part of an effort to save the church from demolition. (Emily Holmes, Heights CDC) Community Development

Design contest casts vision for renovation and reuse of historic church at risk for demolition

Leigh TatumTuesday, March 30, 2021
Feature Story The star cluster Westerlund 2 in the Milky Way galaxy, with an estimated age of about one or two million years. (Courtesy of NASA) Kids and Education

NASA is helping a U of M professor bring space sciences to Memphis-area K-12 classrooms

Jim Coleman and Cole BradleyWednesday, January 13, 2021
Feature Story Homes in Lea's Woods (Ziggy Mack) Technology and Innovation

Free virtual home inspections help Memphians fight winter utility costs

Chris JonesThursday, December 3, 2020
Feature Story Lauren Wiliams-Batiste, owner of the Memphis-based Elle's Elixirs. (Lauren Wiliams-Batiste) Entrepreneurship

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

Brandi HunterThursday, October 8, 2020
Feature Story Census Community Development

Here's why Memphis nonprofits care about the U.S. census and you should too.

Cole BradleyThursday, September 24, 2020
Feature Story maskscovid Healthy Communities

The world is drowning in used face masks. Should we turn them into fuel?

Thursday, September 24, 2020
Feature Story 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) Healthy Communities

901RideChoice is reducing non-emergency calls to 911

Andrea ValenzuelaMonday, August 10, 2020
Feature Story Imani Polk launched Masked by Imani, a line of fashionable face mask, just before her fourteenth birthday. Polk is a Memphis native and will be a freshman at Ridgeway High School in the fall. (Submitted) Entrepreneurship

14 year-old Memphis entrepreneur launches line of fashion masks for pandemic protection

Cole BradleyFriday, June 12, 2020
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