These awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. 

Comeback Coffee expands, Young Rock is over and we learn where mayoral hopefuls stand on a tax increase. 

Former Shelby County Commissioner Sidney Chism’s annual summer political picnic returned June 10. It was also the last day of early voting for the special primary elections in state House District 86. And Martin Luther King III came through Memphis last week in a summer bus tour across the country.

Four county commissioners — two from each political party — met Sunday, June 11, with Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris for four hours. They came up with a compromise that has a wheel-tax hike back in play after it was rejected by the commission earlier this month. But property tax hikes are also in play.

As the Memphis City Council considers whether to raise property taxes, Memphis mayoral candidates were split on whether they want to do so. 

Hiring challenges and overwhelming caseloads for public defenders aren’t new. The local office is doing what it can to incentivize new recruits.

Beginning July 1, Memphis leaders will lay groundwork for a statewide nonprofit association, which they see as the place that will offer research on issues germane to nonprofits and help them get legislative access in Nashville.

The D.C. Scorecard shows partisan lines still intact among the city’s four representatives on the espionage indictment against Donald Trump. Also, Cohen talks Memphis to Nashville Amtrak service, while Kustoff talks workforce at Le Bonheur.

It’s been 16 months since two strokes left the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member unable to walk, speak or eat. 

The Memphis Red Sox were an American Negro Baseball League that operated from 1920 to 1959.

With several thousand volunteers scheduled to come all summer, Brinkley Heights Baptist runs walk-up Bible camps on empty lots for hundreds of kids every day.

The long-awaited and discussed office of the Shelby County Clerk at 3785 Riverdale Road opened this week after many delays. 

Memphis Juneteenth events include concerts, a poetry slam, cultural conversations, a bike ride, a run, a “B.A.P.S.”-themed black tie gala, chamber music and a festival featuring Project Pat.

The board plans to officially ratify their decision on the revised qualifications at a special called meeting Tuesday, June 13, before presenting them to the district’s search firm.

Nearly 30 to 40 protesters gathered at Poplar Avenue and Highland Street on Friday to protest the alleged police brutality against Jamil Ibrahim after he called police about a bag of bullets he had found at his warehouse while cleaning, according to accounts from his family.

As the Shelby County Health Department cautions sensitive groups to reduce outdoor air exposure on Friday, June 9, due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, some scientists question whether the whole idea of “wildfire season” still applies.

This comes after Mississippi’s Supreme Court upheld a lower trial court’s decision that she failed to establish Mississippi citizenship by Nov. 7, 2018, the five-year cut-off date to run in this year’s Nov. 7 general election.

Jermarcus Johnson helped identify his half-brother as one of the shooters.

“It has been my honor and privilege to work alongside you. I’m excited to see the magic that will ensue as LOC’s renaissance continues,” Vernell Bennett-Fairs said.

Mayoral hopefuls talk crime, NBA commissioner talks Ja Morant and fungus is among us at Taco Antrax.

“There is no reason to squander the cultural and social equity that Memphis has invested in the Coliseum when we can reimagine it as a thriving, revenue-generating, multi-purpose venue that serves as a beacon for all that Memphis has to offer.”

The conservancy is the latest in efforts to return the Coliseum to use after it was mothballed by the city 16 years ago. It is the first proposal since Mayor Jim Strickland called for the Coliseum’s demolition to make way for a new $52 million, 10,000-seat soccer stadium.

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The forum at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church drew nine candidates and a crowd of more than 100 Thursday, June 8.

The EPA returned to Memphis officially for the first time since last fall when the agency explained the health risks created by local EtO emissions. Representatives discussed proposals to reduce the community’s risks from the chemical.

The new police chief’s priorities include department recruitment and retention, an issue for police departments across the nation.