There are 6 article(s) tagged Howard Robertson:

• January 2025

  • Memphis businessman with storied career honored with legacy award

    Howard Robertson was honored Thursday, Jan. 23, with the Legacy Achievement Award for a career that has spanned more than half a century.

    By Aisling Mäki January 23, 2025

• October 2023

  • Behind ‘Community Conversations’ on crime and public safety

    Beverly and Howard Robertson talk on “Behind The Headlines” about what they heard about crime from focus groups across the city as part of The Daily Memphian’s “Community Conversations” series.

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    ‘Not willing to give up:’ What focus group participants said about crime

    By Bill Dries October 28, 2023

• September 2022

  • ‘We are in a war': Government, community leaders discuss rising crime

    Speakers during the panel discussion represented each of the steps against gun violence outlined in the Safe Community Action Plan: focused deterrence approach, violence intervention, federal prosecution of gun crime, communications campaign, reduction in theft of guns from vehicles and Memphis Police Department Gun Crime Unit.

    By Julia Baker September 29, 2022

• June 2020

  • Conaway: Katz and rats, dads and doughnuts

    A funky triangle bounded by Park, Lamar and Airways would be the first shopping center where things would start to change, where black and white Memphis would mix and mingle, where Memphis would start to look like Memphis.

    By Dan Conaway June 26, 2020

  • Lack of diversity in ‘Mad Men’ still exists

    In creative spaces it seems better to employ white people capable of appropriating black vernacular, style and originality in ads. But of course, the dearth of black people “has nothing to do with race.” 

    By Howard Robertson June 16, 2020

  • Joymaker conference offers strategies for home office happiness

    Lori Spicer Robertson found a way to keep her family engaged in isolation. With her Joymaker conference, she hopes to help others share strategies for work-life balance during the pandemic.

    By Jared Boyd June 01, 2020