Memphis sons of immigrants, refugees win state soccer cup
Team of teens from Memphis neighborhoods counter “pay-to-play” youth sports machine with Play Where You Stay.
David Waters
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 114 articles by David Waters :
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December 2021
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Metro Husband ‘thankful’ to donate a kidney for his wife
Chip Washington wanted to give his kidney to his ailing wife, but he wasn’t a match. “What else can I do?” he asked doctors.
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November 2021
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Spirit of Memphis Widow, UT work to honor Shelby County’s first COVID-19 victim
On March 26, 2020, 20 days after his retirement party, Kenneth Bradshaw died. He was 64. Now a summer camp scholarship will honor his memory.
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Spirit of Memphis First Baptist Church makes history, installing female senior pastor
Rev. Kathryn Kimmel will lead the Midtown Memphis congregation, which first met in 1839 in a log cabin near the Mississippi River.
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September 2021
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Opinion Waters: Why I can’t part with Father V’s big Greek poster
Father Nicholas Vieron taught his Adult Greek Class every spring from 1972 to 2019. The poster, made by his former student Barbara Austin, shows the Lord’s Prayer, handwritten in Greek.
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NeighborhoodsA mosque grows in North Memphis
“This is where the poor are. This is where the Prophet would be. So this is where we need to be.”
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August 2021
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Metro Kidney brothers: Faith and friendship inspire life-saving gift
When an ailing Black Episcopal priest needed a kidney, his friend, a white businessman, didn’t hesitate.
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Metro What the SCS/Porter-Leath split means for pre-K
Failed contract negotiations add to Head Start’s troubled local history, but advocates say that shouldn’t overshadow impressive pre-K advances.
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How child care centers reveal pre-K’s future in Shelby County
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Metro How child care centers reveal pre-K’s future
Early childhood education advocates say access to high-quality child care is the next goal for more than 40,000 children under age 4.
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What the SCS/Porter-Leath split means for the future of pre-K in Memphis
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June 2021
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Metro Did House Bill 580 negate critical race theory or prove it?
Here’s how a handful of white legislators changed how Black history is taught in Tennessee.
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Teachers at Grizz Prep, surrounded by history, pledge to ‘teach truth' about race
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Metro Teachers at Grizz Prep, surrounded by history, pledge to ‘teach truth’ about race
Social studies teachers question, challenge new state law that restricts instruction on race, racism.
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May 2021
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Special Report
MetroThe Politics of Phonics: Phonics fundamentalists and balanced literacy true believers
Most educators agree reading instruction in the earliest grades should include phonics, but that’s where the disagreements begin.
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City of Memphis Journalist drops lawsuit against city
City releases bodycam footage, requires MPD to refer all excessive force cases to district attorney.
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Metro Memphians mobilizing to help India fight COVID
Members of the Indian immigrant community send planeload of oxygen concentrators, other aid to help pandemic-plagued nation.
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Special Report
MetroThe Politics of Phonics: Teaching from the radical middle
Despite all the “top-down” efforts to guide reading instruction, effective teachers know that all programs and methods work for some children, but none work for every child.
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Special Report
MetroThe Politics of Phonics: How a skill becomes a law
Tennessee governors have been remaking school reading policies for 40 years, and yet reading achievement scores have barely budged.
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MetroThe Politics of Phonics: Power, profit and politics guide reading
Tennessee’s new elementary school reading policies are the product of a tangled web of government, business and academics that has reshaped national and state reading policies time and again.
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March 2021
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Spirit of Memphis David Knight, Memphis priest, prolific writer, dies serving poor in Guatemala
Jesuit priest who lived with Poor Clares remembered for his service to poor, allegiance to Jesus
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Metro How an Indian immigrant became ‘the Dr. Fauci of Memphis’
Dr. Manoj Jain has spent decades tracking viral and bacterial killers in Memphis and around the world.
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February 2021
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City of Memphis Journalist sues city for MPD bodycam footage
Lawsuit claims city “improperly denied” reporter access to decisive bodycam recordings
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Metro Should SCS invest another $15 million in consultant’s ‘Epiphany'?
SCS board members, teachers raise questions, concerns about cost, value of consultant Donyall Dickey’s new and expanding “Integrated Approach” literacy plan.
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January 2021
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Spirit of Memphis Vaccine gives hope to ICU nurse and her mother
Toni Woods feels safer after second dose, but she knows her patients and her mother still need her to keep working, avoid risk.
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December 2020
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Metro New program helps kids with trauma of COVID-19, violence
Le Bonheur, U of M team up to provide free mental health counseling to kids treated for acute trauma.
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Metro Despite CARES funding, Graceland-area hotel facing bankruptcy, auction
Revenue lost in Memphis in May, Elvis Week cancellations compound hotel’s COVID-19 problems.
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Metro As COVID-19 surges, local testing system underused, over-complicated
Dozens of sites with varying procedures and requirements test public’s willingness, ability to get tested for COVID-19.
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