Emily Yellin was six-years old when her parents held the first meeting of their Memphis Search for Meaning Committee at her home in 1968. She asked...
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Jennifer Shiberou teaches 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in an optional visual arts program. Using real issues to inspire her students, she then works...
Britney Thornton is a native of historic Orange Mound, a neighborhood in Memphis which, in 1890 when it was founded, was one of the first in the...
For nearly one hundred years during the season of Lent, Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Memphis has hosted a preaching series featuring diverse...
The Memphis Bus Riders Union (MBRU) evolved in 2012 from a transportation task force formed by long-time activist Georgia “Mother” King shortly after...
REACH Memphis started after Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination almost 50 years ago when a local businessman and a guidance counselor at a public...
The Shell’s history has special meaning for a town that takes its music seriously. Built in 1936, by the city of Memphis and the depression-era WPA...
Facing History and Ourselves is an organization that helps high school students recognize racism, anti-semitism, and all forms of bigotry so they can...
Inger Upchurch, the manager of the Cornelia Crenshaw branch of the Memphis Public Library (MPL), tells us that the library is a place that welcomes...
In 2013, Char and her husband were photographing Clayborn Temple, a home base of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. As they were leaving...