Investigative reporter
David Waters is Distinguished Journalist in Residence and assistant director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis.
There are 55 articles by David Waters :
Faye Smith-Redditt ran the church kitchen like a refuge and a confessional, offering physical and spiritual nourishment to anyone who came in the front door or knocked on the back door.
The lifelong Memphian and tireless advocate for Rozelle-Annesdale neighborhood avoided the spotlight.
MTS finds ways to help ICU nurse, cancer patient and other students deal with financial stress, medical and moral strain
Idlewild Presbyterian Church celebrates life, mourns death of their beloved, retired pastor.
The funeral will be a private family service, but it will be livestreamed on the church’s website beginning with the prelude at 1:50 p.m.
Those who make and fly flags for Steve Montgomery are invited to share photos of them on social media using #RememberSteve, or to email photos to RememberSteve@idlewildchurch.org.
The Rev. Dr. Stephen R. Montgomery, whose prophetic hope and pastoral heart gently, but firmly challenged and encouraged his church and community to be more just and loving, died Friday morning at Regional One Health with his family by his side. He was 68.
Rev. Steve Montgomery, who retired as the widely respected and beloved senior pastor of Idlewild Presbyterian Church a little over a year ago, is in critical condition in intensive care at Regional One.
What will happen when some of them test positive for COVID-19? The answers are troubling, and in many cases yet to be determined.
Do the experts wear masks? Eat out? Sanitize their mail and groceries? Let their kids join protests or send them to school? We asked.
Kids who go to school risk exposing themselves and others to COVID-19. But many kids who stay home are more vulnerable to adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs.
East High's collaboration with local artists showed the academic, social and emotional potential of an interactive online class.
Janice Ballard follows her faith in God and public health onto the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
The death count is dramatically lower than early warnings, but no less tragic, as coronavirus precautions left many victims to die alone, isolated from their spouses and children, dear friends and clergy.
COVID-19 cancelled Amari Ajamu's senior trip, and prom, and graduation ceremony, but it didn't stop his family from celebrating their Soulsville Charter School and Stax Academy graduate.
The slowly rising tide of local confirmed COVID-19 cases and related deaths can get lost in the uneven ebb and flow of daily numbers.
The Tennessee Department of Health puts the Shelby County coronavirus case number at 1,006.
Ramsey, who pushed his white Baptist congregations to desegregate in the 1960s, spent his last few decades serving as a counselor, teacher and minister in five other denominations.
Local leaders worry that conflicting and inconsistent policies could make "Back to Business" rules more difficult to maintain and reopening risks more difficult to control.
One immigrant mother helping others protect their families from COVID, ICE and other threats.
The medical experts tasked with helping to plan the city's reopening know taming the virus will require risk assessment and management they've never attempted. They also know they can't afford to be wrong.
Shelby County has the kits and lab space to test 5,000 people a day for COVID-19, but declining demand and other issues have kept daily tests below 1,000 just as the need for testing grows.
The lightning speed at which the novel coronavirus moves and attacks has made testing, tracing, and targeting its path even more difficult and vital.
Predictive models are important and helpful, but can’t be taken as gospel, said Dr. Manoj Jain, the infectious disease expert and epidemiologist who is advising the local COVID-19 Task Force.
“The goal isn’t so much to expand the volume of testing but the equity of testing, both demographically and geographically,” said Jenny Bartlett-Prescott, chief operating officer of Church Health who is leading the task force’s testing subgroup.