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Feature Story Monterrion Webber makes a cup of coffee for a patron of Cxffeeblack at the Anti-Gentrification Coffee Club #1, located at 751 National Street in The Heights. (Ziggy Mack) Entrepreneurship

Cxffeeblack serves its brew with a side of history and anti-gentrification

Meghan AslinThursday, July 29, 2021
Feature Story Guests of the Hub Hotel pose with Shelby Stonecipher (far right), Hub Hotel program manager. (Courtesy of Hospitality Hub)

Hospitality Hub breaks ground on Memphis' first "barrier-free" emergency shelter for women

Sarah RushakoffThursday, July 1, 2021
Feature Story Playback Memphis is hosting a special BIPOC Memphis Matters performance for ensemble actors and audience members who identify as Black, indigenous, and people of color. (Playback Memphis) Arts and Culture

Playback Memphis to host virtual theater show for BIPOC audience June 12, honoring Juneteenth

Cole BradleyThursday, June 10, 2021
Feature Story CWR_Food.png Arts and Culture

Virtual "Future of Food" lunch hour event will discuss equity in Memphis restaurant industry

Sarah RushakoffThursday, May 13, 2021
Feature Story A group of Memphis Shelby PAL youth pose for a photo during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Founder Craig Little stands at the back center. (Submitted) Kids and Education

Memphis Shelby PAL works to keep serving youth in the pandemic

Arieale MunsonThursday, April 22, 2021
Feature Story The doulas of Naturally Nurtured Birth Services are (left to right): Shanille Bowens, Tamera Stegall, Abeni Randle, Rhonda Okoth, andJacqueline Oselenin. (Ziggy Mack) Healthy Communities

Shanille Bowens is helping other Black women in Memphis craft their dream birth experience

Thursday, March 25, 2021
Feature Story Memphis mother Jouy Thomas poses with her 7-year-old son, Jace. (Submitted) Kids and Education

Learning loss is a serious pandemic problem and the kids are not OK

Tiffany Thomas-TurnerTuesday, March 2, 2021
Feature Story In Boxtown, two men sit on a horse-drawn carriage after collecting wood to warm their houses; 1960. After decades of industrial pollution, Byhalia Pipeline LLC wants to move crude oil under Boxtown. (University of Memphis Libraries, Ken Ross) Healthy Communities

Environmental racism runs deeper than Memphis’ water source

Ashli BlowTuesday, March 2, 2021
Feature Story Cornelia Crenshaw speaks at a rally in Forrest City, Arkansas in September of 1961. Roughly 300 people attended. (Photo by James R. Reid) Arts and Culture

Black Memphis, Black History: Remembering Cornelia Crenshaw, "mother" of local Civil Rights Movement

Chris JonesFriday, February 19, 2021
Feature Story Archie "A.W." Willis, Jr. stands at center. Seated are members of the Memphis State Eight. These students were the first to integrate what is now the University of Memphis. Arts and Culture

Black Memphis, Black History: The legacy of A.W. Willis

Chris JonesThursday, February 11, 2021
Feature Story The Arts Café is looking for residents of the Memphis' Riverview-Kansas area who enjoy making art or poetry to share how COVID-19 has affected their community. The deadline to apply is January 29. Arts and Culture

Arts Café calls for Riverview-Kansas residents to share their pandemic stories through art, poetry

Cole BradleyWednesday, January 20, 2021
Feature Story June 20, 2020. One participant comforts another during a moment of silence at the “Our Now, Our Future” march for Black children at Overton Park. About 200 hundred people showed up in solidarity. (Andrea Morales for MLK50) Arts and Culture

Black women carried us through 2020; it’s time to say thanks

Friday, November 27, 2020
Feature Story Michele Simmons is a North Memphis resident and a student in High Ground's North Memphis Community Correspondents program. (Cole Bradley) Arts and Culture

Dispatches from North Memphis: Meet Michele Simmons

Cole BradleyWednesday, November 18, 2020
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