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A Look Back at 2024

Read the year’s top stories from The Daily Memphian’s staff of award-winning journalists. 

Calkins: How to fix the city’s gang problem? Here’s an idea even better than a truce

Why did Jarmond Johnson join a gang? He will tell you himself. “I didn’t want to be the bad guy. I wanted to sneak some money into Mama’s purse.” Johnson later became the busiest drug dealer at Hamilton High School. He went to jail for robbery. “That’s when I heard about Memphis Rox,” he said. Read more.

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