There are 106 article(s) tagged Otis Sanford:

• June 2019

  • Nelson: Don’t sell Memphians short when it comes to cross-racial voting

    Our history of cross-racial voting calls into question whether Memphis might not be ripe for a redistricting of city council and county commission districts that intentionally makes them racially diverse instead of solidly black or solidly white.

    By Michael Nelson June 04, 2019

• May 2019

  • Sanford: Casada should resign

    If Casada thinks that removing Cothren as chief of staff and smoothing things over with contrite words on the radio will put an end to the scandal, he is mistaken. The bipartisan chorus of calls for him to resign will only get louder, and Democrats are intensifying their demands for a TBI investigation. 

    By Otis Sanford May 09, 2019

• February 2019

  • Sanford: Russell Sugarmon blazed a trail for racial change in Memphis

    In his early career, Russell Sugarmon played a key role in Memphis' political evolution, both as a candidate for city office in 1959 and as a lawyer for college students who staged sit-ins at lunch counters and public libraries.

    By Otis Sanford February 21, 2019

• January 2019

  • Otis Sanford named 2018 Communicator of the Year

    Otis Sanford, professor and Hardin Chair of Excellence in Economic and Managerial Journalism at the University of Memphis, has been named 2018 Communicator of the Year by the Memphis Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

    By Natalie Pilgrim January 07, 2019

• November 2018

  • Sanford: Decisions – whether at the voting booth, in the classroom or in life – have consequences

    “People make choices. Choices make history.”

    By Otis Sanford November 01, 2018

• September 2018

  • Sanford’s goals: Inform, enlighten and provoke (when necessary)

    It was unusually cold in Memphis – even for the dead of winter – with a couple inches of fresh snow on the ground when I checked in at the metro desk of The Commercial Appeal on Jan. 10, 1977, for my first day as a general assignment reporter. My initial assignment, of course, was to write a weather story. Then as now, even a minor snowfall is a serious disruptor in Memphis and front-page news.

    By Otis Sanford September 16, 2018