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Feature Story Starkisha James, 32, is a teacher at Newberry Elementary. (Shelia Williams) Healthy Communities

Back to School: A Memphis teacher shares her worries and bright spots

Tafui OwusuThursday, December 3, 2020
Feature Story Geraldine Williams, 63, sits on her porch in North Memphis. Williams is a bus driver Durham School Services who says she'll be back in the driver's seat as soon as she can. (Shelia Williams) Healthy Communities

Back to School: A Memphis bus driver shares her struggles and fears

Tafui OwusuWednesday, December 2, 2020
Feature Story (Wikimedia Commons) Kids and Education

Tennessee’s largest teacher group calls for more protections as COVID spreads among educators

Friday, November 20, 2020
Feature Story Christine Jones and her mother Irma (behind) walk down the hall toward an exam room while being seen at the Guthrie Primary Care Clinic in Smokey City, North Memphis. (Andrea Morales, 2017). Healthy Communities

Healthcare has never been equitable and the pandemic is proof

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyThursday, November 12, 2020
Feature Story Dr. Mary Manspeaker (right) is a veterinarian with the Human Society of Memphis and Shelby County. The Humane Society is currently running a pilot program to provide reduced-cost veterinarian care for low-income Memphians. (Submitted) Healthy Communities

Memphis Humane Society offering discount vet care for low-income, unemployed pet owners

Jim ColemanThursday, November 5, 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 Kenzie Cleaves stands inside a vacant unit in her North Memphis apartment complex that she said has been unsecured for over a year. Unsafe housing conditions can increase COVID-19-related deaths. (Ziggy Mack) Healthy Communities

In poor communities, toxic housing is a risk factor for COVID-19 deaths

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyWednesday, September 30, 2020
Feature Story Derotha Payne-Obie mounts a recently completed puzzle at her dining room table. Prior to the pandemic, she attended the Lewis Senior Center. It closed in March under local and state mandates. (Tamara Cunningham) Healthy Communities

For senior citizens, the virus isn't the only pandemic danger. Isolation can be deadly.

Tamara CunninghamWednesday, September 16, 2020
Feature Story (frankieleon, Wikicommons) Healthy Communities

Sobriety is going digital as substance abuse increases in the pandemic

Deborah Gaddy-RobertsonWednesday, September 16, 2020
Feature Story 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
Feature Story 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) Healthy Communities

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

Baris Gursakal & Cole BradleyThursday, August 20, 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 (Andrea Morales) Healthy Communities

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

Cole BradleySunday, July 26, 2020
Feature Story Dr. Susan Miranda conducts research for University of Tennessee Health Sciences Centers' Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2014. Healthy Communities

UTHSC hosting second virtual coronavirus symposium July 28

Cole BradleyThursday, July 23, 2020
Feature Story The PepsiCo Foundation has pledge $7 million for nationwide COVID-19 relief, including $500,000 to the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. (Banco de Alimentos Quito, PepsiCo Foundation) Healthy Communities

Pepsi puts $500,000 toward COVID-19 relief in Memphis

Cole BradleyThursday, July 16, 2020
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