There are 5 article(s) tagged Central High School:

• December 2021

  • 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.

    By David Waters December 03, 2021

• February 2021

  • Emotions mixed as SCS students head back to buildings

    SCS teachers are preparing to be joined in their classrooms by students for the first time in nearly a year. 

    By Daja E. Henry February 28, 2021

• June 2020

  • ‘I was white and it came with many privileges’

    Lifelong best friends Zach Waters and Chris O'Conner are the same age and went to the same schools, but remember gradually discovering that one of them had to live more cautiously for a reason that confounded them.

    By Zach Waters June 05, 2020

  • ‘I could not do the same things my white brother could do’

    Chris O'Conner learned at a young age that he and his best friend couldn't play with the same toys. One that looked like a knife "could cost little black boys their life."

    By Chris O'Conner June 05, 2020

• October 2019

  • Student, her mother accuse Central High principal and SCS of civil rights abuses

    A student with disabilities was left alone in a second-story classroom during a fire drill, and punished for using a cellphone to call her mother and the fire department, federal lawsuit alleges. 

    By Jane Roberts October 31, 2019