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On The Ground Podcast: Making Memphis' real estate industry more diverse

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 04:00:00 -0500

Dillon Hollian and Andre Jones discuss local efforts to support emerging minority- and women-owned real estate developers, and connect them to small-scale development opportunities.

On the Ground Podcast: Arrow Creative talks creative diversity and stepping up for arts education

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Sat, 7 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0600

Abby Phillips and Jailenn Scott with Arrow Creative discuss Memphis’ creative landscape.

On the Ground Podcast: A Promise and hopes in northern Uptown

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:03:43 -0600

Cornelius Sanders and Mary Ward with Promise CDC talk community-centered development, the human rights of housing, and the work done and yet to do to see northern Uptown thrive.

On the Ground Podcast: Why are so many Memphis families being evicted?

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 09:54:55 -0600

Community revitalization consultant Austin Harrison and High Ground publisher Emily Trenholm discuss the local eviction crisis, its causes and its impact on neighborhoods and families.

On The Ground Podcast: Behind the scenes at TEDx Memphis

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 10:00:00 -0600

Anna Mullins from New Memphis and Chloe Moore from NEXT Memphis join publisher Emily Trenholm for a preview of the upcoming TEDx conference. The 2020 edition of the locally produced TEDx event will take place Saturday, Feb. 22, at Crosstown Concourse Theatre.

On The Ground Podcast: Building strong neighborhoods

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:23:23 -0600

Brandis Leverette and Crystal Chopin with Oasis of Hope discuss the organization’s work serving the Bickford-Bearwater neighborhoods and its partnership with High Ground.

On the Ground Podcast: Orange Mound artists prepare feast, mural presentation and more

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:32:21 -0600

Yancy Villa-Calvo is working on an Orange Mound documentation piece with the students of Melrose and a historian scholar from University of Memphis.

On The Ground Podcast: What's happening In North Memphis?

madeline@highgroundnews.com (High Ground News) — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:58:25 -0600

High Ground editor Cole Bradley and publisher Emily Trenholm discuss the publication’s new focus on North Memphis neighborhoods with Deveney Perry from BLDG Memphis, who reports on what’s she’s learned in working with neighborhood stakeholders over the past two years.

Hustle mentality led Johnson-Williams to open her contracting and woodworking firm

madeline@highgroundnews.com (Kirstin Cheers) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:00:09 -0500

When Trinette Johnson-Williams was 7 years old, she built a go-kart inspired by “The Little Rascals.”

Family opens side-by-side Binghampton businesses

madeline@highgroundnews.com (Ashlei Williams) — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:58:01 -0500

Lucas Trautman and Kristin Fox-Trautman are redefining family business.

Musical Heights

madeline@highgroundnews.com (Mark Jordan) — Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:15:00 -0500

The Na-Jack Market at 1457 National St., which takes its name from its location sandwiched between National and Jackson Avenue near where they converge, may look like just another convenience store – a place to grab a drink and a snack, some cigarettes, maybe a lottery ticket – but once, somewhere between where the stacks of unrefrigerated sodas and the storeroom are now, music history was made here.

The state’s only dual-language program grows with Memphis’ Latino population

madeline@highgroundnews.com (Cole Bradley, High Ground News) — Tue, 2 Oct 2018 13:04:10 -0500

It’s lunchtime at Treadwell Elementary and the school’s new optional program coordinator, Darlene May, is heading to the cafeteria. Along the way, she’s met by a dozen students shouting, “Hola!” through beaming smiles.

City-wide diaper drive to support Memphis families in poverty

madeline@highgroundnews.com (Ashlei Williams, High Ground News) — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 04:00:07 -0500

“I need help with everything,” Brooks said. “Most important has been the money issue. Buying Pampers, wipes, clothes, extra bottles. Then transportation sometimes because my mom works every day, and I need to find a way to my doctor’s appointments for my babies.