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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)

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

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyWednesday, September 30, 2020

Agape Child & Family Services

The school year has started, but Memphis-area parents can still register their kids for preschool

Cole BradleyThursday, September 24, 2020

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

Thursday, September 24, 2020

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)

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

Tamara CunninghamWednesday, September 16, 2020

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Sobriety is going digital as substance abuse increases in the pandemic

Deborah Gaddy-RobertsonWednesday, September 16, 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 4, 2020

Memphis jooker Ryan Haskett dances for onlookers

In Photos: The Last of Our Neighborhoods Revisited

Cole BradleyFriday, September 4, 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

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Walking in Memphis: Put on your tennis shoes and discover South Memphis history

Ramona SpringfieldThursday, 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

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Care about Memphis' nonprofits? Tune in for these virtual discussions this Wednesday and Thursday.

Brandi HunterTuesday, August 11, 2020

(Andrea Morales)

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

Cole BradleySunday, July 26, 2020

Derion Lipford films his pitch proposal for the judges of ArtUp's North Memphis Incubator in January 2020. (Sheri Neely)

Memphis teen wins ArtUp business pitch contest

Friday, July 24, 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

Dr. Susan Miranda conducts research for University of Tennessee Health Sciences Centers' Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2014.

UTHSC hosting second virtual coronavirus symposium July 28

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

Exposure

Visitors can build a custom experience at the first virtual Exposure event

Cole BradleyThursday, July 16, 2020

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)

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

Cole BradleyThursday, July 16, 2020

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