Youth leaders with BRIDGES USA are ensuring youth voices are heard during the global health crisis and civil unrest.  

The Douglass Community has been celebrating Juneteenth in Douglass Park since 1993. In this year's pandemic, they did things a little differently. 

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.

“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

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. 

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.

“Resources not getting to Douglass is not a pandemic problem. This has always been our problem,” Kathy Yancey-Temple, The Time is Now Douglass CDC