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Feature Story Black Business Friday Entrepreneurship

Memphians can shop local and virtual at Black Business Friday, Black Christmas Expo

Cole BradleyFriday, November 27, 2020
Feature Story Crab legs with Drop Sauce is a best-seller at Straight Drop Seafood in North Memphis. (Straight Drop Seafood) Entrepreneurship

New Straight Drop Seafood is the right thing to crave

Tamara CunninghamThursday, November 26, 2020
Feature Story Meghan Paige (left) and Keneisha Malone opened Terra Cotta October 3, 2020. The store is both a plant shop and space for customers to shop locally made goods, including jewelry, apparel, and candles. (Submitted) Entrepreneurship

Women Working It: The plants and passion of Terra Cotta

Brandi HunterThursday, November 19, 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
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 Lance Banks is a first grader at Perea Elementary School in North Memphis. (Submitted) Kids and Education

Kids speak on life and learning in the pandemic

Brandis LeveretteWednesday, November 11, 2020
Feature Story An employee of La Michoacana ice cream and paleta shop serves up a fruit cup with tajin. (Forever Ready Productions) Entrepreneurship

Video: Paletas in the pandemic with La Michoacana

Cole BradleyThursday, November 5, 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 Dr. Marcus Matthews is an education expert and author. His latest book provides tips for educators addressing students' ACEs and discusses expanding the definition of adverse childhood experiences for children in urban environments. (Submitted) Kids and Education

Q & A: Memphis expert on childhood trauma talks restorative discipline and social-emotional learning

Erica HortonWednesday, November 4, 2020
Feature Story (Wikimedia Commons, Hillebrand Steve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Kids and Education

The pandemic is changing how Memphis does preschool

Cole BradleyThursday, October 29, 2020
Feature Story Dr. Marcus Matthews is an education expert and author. His latest book provides tips for educators addressing students' ACEs and discusses expanding the definition of adverse childhood experiences for children in urban environments. (Submitted) Kids and Education

Memphis author, expert says definition of adverse childhood experiences falls short in urban areas

Erica HortonThursday, October 29, 2020
Feature Story (Wikimedia Commons

Recycle, reduce, reuse meet rethink and re-earth for Tennessee's first Zero Waste Day

Cole BradleyThursday, October 22, 2020
Feature Story In June, activist occupied Memphis City Hall's plaza and covered it in the names of Black Americans killed by law enforcement. MICAH held a rally on the plaza demanding policing reform and other changes toward a more just Memphis. (Cole Bradley)

MICAH wants Memphians to get in 'good trouble' at virtual public meeting this Sunday

Cole BradleyWednesday, October 21, 2020
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