Fred Smith on stagflation and more from the Freedom Awards

By , Daily Memphian Updated: October 21, 2022 7:29 PM CT | Published: October 21, 2022 3:00 PM CT

At last night’s Freedom Awards, FedEx Corp. founder Fred Smith talked about the economy and highlighted longtime staff members; two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors spoke about the time it takes to write about history. 

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National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Awards Fred Smith Richard Wright

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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