South Memphis community lines up to celebrate Charles Champion

Pioneering Black pharmacist Dr. Charles Champion was showered with adoration by motorists in South Memphis with a drive-thru celebration outside his neighborhood drug store.

By Jared Boyd August 23, 2020

901 FC

Penalty deep in stoppage time frustrates Memphis 901 FC on the road

Rafael Mentzingen, Keanu Marsh-Brown score in the first half but Birmingham rescues a draw very late.

By John Varlas August 22, 2020

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Number of Tennessee tests tops 2 million

In addition to two real-time deaths from COVID-19 reported in the last 24 hours, the health department says 11 new deaths will be added to the total of Shelby County citizens who have died from complications of the novel coronavirus.

By Jared Boyd August 24, 2020

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Hayden shines as CBHS opens with impressive victory over Houston

Dallan Hayden scores three times as CBHS downs Houston. It’s the sixth season coach Thomas McDaniel has won its opener.

By John Varlas August 22, 2020

Geoff Calkins

Calkins: What’s so secret about a high school football game? At Collierville High, apparently, everything

By banning media from a high school football game, Collierville High School taught their students a valuable lesson in leadership. The lesson: Don't be as small and as shortsighted as this.

By Geoff Calkins August 22, 2020

Education

Leatherwood: Schools will run into challenges staying open in COVID world

Republican state Rep. Tom Leatherwood of Arlington believes schools will have a hard time staying open this year because of quarantine rules and the impact of one person testing positive for COVID-19.

By Sam Stockard August 22, 2020

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Memphis musicians continue protests in tradition of ‘message music’

Adopting Stax Records' approach to tackling Black liberation through song, several local artists responded to recent protests with lyrical activism.

By Jared Boyd August 22, 2020

Education

A champion for students, former state education commissioner Jane Walters dies at 85

Career in education spanned more than half a century in the classroom, school and nonprofit leadership and eventually reaching the highest level of state government.

By Linda A. Moore August 21, 2020

Podcast On the Record

City Parks director says parks seeing ‘renaissance’ in pandemic

Nick Walker, who recently went from interim to permanent director of the city’s division of parks and neighborhoods, talked about the change and the move to a parks master plan on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.

By Bill Dries August 22, 2020

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