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.

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

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.

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.