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Feature Story Exposure Arts and Culture

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

Cole BradleyThursday, July 16, 2020
Exposure is going virtual in September 2020. Rather than walk between 100 booths at the FedEx Forum, attendees can learn about local businesses and organization with a customized virtual experience.
Feature Story 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) Healthy Communities

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

Cole BradleyThursday, July 16, 2020
The PepsiCo Foundation has partnered with the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis to put $500,000 towards pandemic relief efforts in Memphis.
Feature Story Sergeant Biggs, a Memphis Police Department mascot, greets members of the community outside Cathedral of Faith during the Klondike-Smokey City foster care awareness parade. (Brandon Dahlberg)

Urban League and Shelby County mayor to host virtual summit on police reform in the South

Cole BradleyFriday, July 10, 2020
The free virtual summit is July 14 and takes aim at police brutality, the prison system, and re-entry reform.
Feature Story (HarperCollins) Arts and Culture

Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas “come” to Memphis with virtual book signing

Cole BradleyThursday, July 9, 2020
Talk show host Phil Donahue and actress Marlo Thomas are “coming” to Memphis for a virtual, live-streamed conversation on their new book, “What Makes a Marriage Last."
Feature Story Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Healthy Communities

Methodist-Le Bonheur creates new role to reduce Mid-South health disparities

Cole BradleyThursday, July 9, 2020
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare announced a new leadership position dedicated to eradicating health disparities in the Mid-South.
Feature Story (Brandon Dill) Kids and Education

Second COVID-themed creative writing contest offers cash prizes for Shelby County Schools teens

Cole BradleyThursday, July 9, 2020
Peer Power's second creative writing contest offers cash prizes for Shelby County Schools high school students. Submissions are due July 24.
Feature Story BRIDGES USA youth Leaders are creating virtual spaces where students can connected during the coronavirus pandemic. (Submitted) Kids and Education

BRIDGES USA youth leaders make space for teens in the midst of protests and a pandemic

Ashley DavisThursday, July 2, 2020
Youth leaders with BRIDGES USA are ensuring youth voices are heard during the global health crisis and civil unrest.  
Feature Story A nighttime view of the I Am A Man plaza outside of Clayborn Temple, near Downtown Memphis.

War veteran teams with former NFL player to host peaceful protest march, June 27

Cole BradleySaturday, June 27, 2020
An Iraqi War veteran and a former NFL player are teaming up to head a peaceful protest march that kicks off at I Am A Man Plaza at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 27. 
Feature Story To celebrate Juneteenth 2020, The Time is Now Douglass, the Official Black Lives Matter Memphis Chapter, and Memphis Artists for Change partnered to supply produce boxes, free lunch from local food trucks, masks, and hand sanitizer. (Forever Ready) Community Development

Video: Juneteenth in Douglass Park

Thursday, June 25, 2020
The Douglass Community has been celebrating Juneteenth in Douglass Park since 1993. In this year's pandemic, they did things a little differently. 
Feature Story FAQIllustrationCOVIDMMC Sustainability

Your questions for navigating life during the COVID-19 pandemic, asked and answered

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
The Memphis Media Collaborative sent a COVID-19 information needs survey to residents across Memphis. Here are the most common questions and answers.
Feature Story MPD

The whole world is talking about police reform. Black Lives Matter has solutions.

Cole BradleyMonday, June 22, 2020
Shahidah Jones sits down with High Ground to discuss the injustices of cash bail, disinvestment and over-policing in Black communities, and the official Black Lives Matter Memphis chapter's strategies and solutions for divesting law enforcement and reinvesting in the people.
Feature Story A Craftsman Bungalow-style home with ornate spiral pillars in Vollintine-Evergreen. VECA is seeking a landmarks designation for the V&E area to preserve its historic aesthetic. (Cole Bradley) Community Development

Vollintine-Evergreen seeks landmark designation to preserve its unique history and aesthetic

Ashley DavisFriday, June 19, 2020
Redevelopment is happening all around the Vollintine-Evergreen community. In the midst of change, residents are fighting to ensure they have a say in how their neighborhood takes shape.
Feature Story Imani Polk launched Masked by Imani, a line of fashionable face mask, just before her fourteenth birthday. Polk is a Memphis native and will be a freshman at Ridgeway High School in the fall. (Submitted) Entrepreneurship

14 year-old Memphis entrepreneur launches line of fashion masks for pandemic protection

Cole BradleyFriday, June 12, 2020
Imani Polk started a fashion brand then designed a line of fashion masks for pandemic protection, which has sold over 350 masks since April. Then she turned 14.
Feature Story Arise2Read staff and volunteers sorted 1,300 books into summer learning kits for kids who can't attend their reading-focused summer camps this summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Submitted) Kids and Education

With camps closed, local nonprofits pivot to fight the summer reading slump

Ashley DavisFriday, June 12, 2020
Parents and educators are looking for ways to address the summer slide now that school is out and camps aren’t an option. Arise2Read and Agape Child & Family Services are pivoting to get books, WiFi, and other resources into the hands and homes of students most in need. 
Feature Story Memphis Inner-City Rugby alumni coaches and staff distributed food, basic supplies, and rugby equipment at Believe Memphis in the Klondike neighborhood. They also passed out over 650 supply bags to other North Memphis residents. (Submitted) Healthy Communities

With the season cancelled, Memphis Inner City Rugby serves off the field

Ashley DavisMonday, June 8, 2020
“We can’t do any rugby. We’re not in schools right now. So, we asked, ‘What can we do with our resources and our people?'” - Executive Director Shane Young
Feature Story Rachel Johnson, performing at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is maintaining her entrepreneurial drive while responding to barriers presented by the pandemic. Submitted by Johnson for MLK50: Justice Through Journalism) Healthy Communities

Pandemic strikes sour note for Memphis musician’s big plans

Thursday, June 4, 2020
The ninth in a series of essays from Memphis workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in partnership with MLK50.
Feature Story OtherFoods Kitchen is located at 1249 Heistan Place and serves as a space for food-based startups to kickoff. (Ramona Springfield) Entrepreneurship

OtherFoods Kitchen helps startups cook up something great in Memphis

Ramona SpringfieldThursday, June 4, 2020
OtherFoods Kitchen is a shared commercial kitchen that's home to over a dozen Memphis-area, food-based startup companies looking to become the next hottest thing on the Memphis food scene. 
Feature Story Rufus Sykes cracks a smile as he holds the door open for a customer at the South Memphis Grocery on West Mallory Avenue. Sykes co-owns the corner store with other family members. (Malik Martin) Entrepreneurship

Corner Stores: A South Memphis love story

Ivy K. ArnoldWednesday, June 3, 2020
Corner stores in poor neighborhoods get a bad rap for unhealthy food, vagrancy, and blight. High Ground Community Correspondent and South Memphis resident Ivy Arnold has a different take—corner stores as necessary and beloved institutions.
Feature Story (stock photo) Healthy Communities

Could COVID-19 end in better nurses?

Cole BradleyThursday, May 28, 2020
For hospitals in the Mid-South, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought fewer overall patients, not more. Could the lighter patient load help nurses improve their skills and increase quality of care?
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