Crepe myrtle branches have grown over the Velsicol sign on Jackson Avenue near Warford Street. The company’s chemical plant ...

Karanja Ajanaku worked as a journalist in Memphis for much of his life. Photo via Facebook. Photo illustration by Andrea ...

City of Memphis / TVA utility assistance This utility assistance program is funded by the city of Memphis and the Tennessee Valley Authority, but is administered by Neighborhood Christian Charities.

The city is asking community members how it should spend the tax money Mayor Paul Young wants set aside for neighborhoods within a five-mile radius of ...

One of Kerrie Washington’s children runs down the hall (right) while at home in Grahamwood Place Apartments (left). Like some of her neighbors, Washington ...

She’ll be pumping gas or buying groceries, at a community or other sundry event, doing everyday things. A person in the near distance recognizes her and calls out. The need might be a medication the ...

In Shelby County, a network of organizations with the Memphis-Shelby County Schools s ummer feeding program are serving meals and offering food pick-ups for students who are without school meals ...

Last week, the city announced that it had commissioned third-party air quality testing, which took place on June 13 and June 16, examining pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde. While ...

Leon Phillips grew up in a hard-scrabble family in rural Ohio, where his grandmother, known affectionately and a little fearfully as ‘Big Momma,’ preached from the gospel of hard work. “I learned to ...