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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 Soulsville in pictures 5 Arts and Culture

Community Foundation, MLK50 to host discussion on need for more Black college grads

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 Hunter Coleman, 10, works on his homeschool math curriculum using a mix of online instruction and hands-on practice on a dry-erase board. A dry-erase board is a useful tool for practice work across subjects. (Jim Coleman).

For kids at home, ‘a small intervention makes a big difference'

Thursday, November 5, 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 (Wikimedia Commons)

The growing movement to send counselors, not cops, to mental health crises

Friday, October 23, 2020
Feature Story (Wikimedia Commons)

“A New Generation of Poll Workers” Steps Up to Ensure Safe, Fair Elections

Thursday, October 22, 2020
Feature Story Members of Ballet Folklórico Herencia Hispana gathering before the parade in 2019 Dia de los Muertos parade. (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art)

Day of the Dead "reverse parade" set for Oct. 24 in Midtown and Overton Park

Cole BradleyFriday, October 16, 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) Healthy Communities

Agencies in Memphis encourage homeownership as alternative to high rents

Ashlei WilliamsThursday, October 15, 2020
Feature Story James Cook and his family stand outside the future home of Nubian Design Studios in Whitehaven. The building is currently under renovations with help from an EDGE Inner City Economic Development loan . (Ziggy Mack) Entrepreneurship

This Whitehaven entrepreneur is bringing a new hair studio to his community with help of EDGE loan

Erinn FiggWednesday, October 14, 2020
Feature Story Fresh produce at The Grocer, an extension of the South Memphis Farmers Market. The vast majority of South Memphis is a food desert with no full-sized grocers selling healthful food. (Andrew Breig)

Memphis Food Systems Summit will seek solutions to city's food woes

Jim ColemanWednesday, October 7, 2020
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