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Feature Story Crab legs with Drop Sauce is a best-seller at Straight Drop Seafood in North Memphis. (Straight Drop Seafood)

New Straight Drop Seafood is the right thing to crave

Tamara CunninghamThursday, November 26, 2020
Feature Story Michele Simmons is a North Memphis resident and a student in High Ground's North Memphis Community Correspondents program. (Cole Bradley)

Dispatches from North Memphis: Meet Michele Simmons

Cole BradleyWednesday, November 18, 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).

Healthcare has never been equitable and the pandemic is proof

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyThursday, November 12, 2020
Feature Story Lance Banks is a first grader at Perea Elementary School in North Memphis. (Submitted)

Kids speak on life and learning in the pandemic

Brandis LeveretteWednesday, November 11, 2020
Feature Story Dalisia “Dee” Brye closed on her new home in Whitehaven in June with the help of United Housing's HUD-certified housing counselors. Brye sought home ownership after realizing that mortgage payments would be less than rental payments. (Submitted)

Agencies in Memphis encourage homeownership as alternative to high rents

Ashlei WilliamsThursday, October 15, 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)

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)

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

Tamara CunninghamWednesday, September 16, 2020
Feature Story 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
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)

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

Baris Gursakal & Cole BradleyThursday, August 20, 2020
Feature Story Archie Willis rides the Madison Avenue trolley bus through Madison Heights. (Ziggy Mack)

In Photos: More Memphis neighborhoods revisited

Cole BradleyFriday, July 31, 2020
Feature Story 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
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We include residents in planning articles, photo essays, videos, and events that reflect their lived experience.

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