Authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate, whose recent book "Before and After" tells the story of children adopted through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, drew a crowd over the weekend, including many whose lives were affected by the home. 

South Memphis product Marquita Bradshaw is putting years of work as an environmental activist to work as she enters the U.S. Senate race as a political neophyte.

Survivors and their supporters took to the street with ponchos covering their pink paraphernalia for a rainy 5K in Downtown Memphis.

Women come year after year, stay and chat with the others and feel encouraged by the camaraderie.

Memphis is the last stop of a five-city tour across the state to give arts education supporters strategies on being better advocates.

Family members who have lost loved ones in officer-involved shootings discuss their loss at a two-day event.

Shelby County will celebrate 200 years of history Nov. 24 at Shelby Farms.

A Nashville lawmaker is planning a legislative push to remove the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol's second floor if the Capitol Commission declines to remove the embattled Confederate general's statue this year.

Rev. Earle Fisher and Sijuwola Crawford talked about the blue wave of the 2018 county elections and the money that fueled a different outcome in the 2019 nonpartisan city elections on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.

According to the City of Memphis, 47 buildings in Cottonwood Apartments were damaged in the storm; 16 extensively.

The 133 students who attend the school might need to find a new school in just over a week, which school leaders say would create a situation where students “would not be well-served.”

Memphis legislators and healthcare industry members raised concerns about the state's $7.85 billion Medicaid block grant proposal, saying it raises too many questions that won't be solved until negotiations are done with the federal government.

The District 1 and District 7 council runoff elections are each a matchup between an incumbent and a challenger. The two runoffs end the city's election year and set the mix of new and returning council members on the 13-member body.

Early voting in the two Memphis City Council runoff races opens Friday and runs through Nov. 9. Election day is Nov. 14 in the last election of 2019 in Memphis and Shelby County.

Two Memphis city council members say they have doubts about restoring city pension and health benefits to police officers and firefighters with a half-cent sales tax hike approved by city voters earlier this month.

University of Memphis promotes cross-disciplinary teams as a way to build up its research base.

As Tennessee pushes a $7.85 billion Medicaid block grant proposal, the state is still waiting for federal approval of a TennCare work requirement passed in 2018. The request is being held up because of legal challenges to similar programs in other states.

A building permit application valued at $1.9 million was filed for Orion Federal Credit Union.

Volunteer Memphis is partnering with Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South, United Way of the Mid-South and Regions Bank to promote financial literacy among students this week as part of National Make a Difference Day.

Ibram X. Kendi, the author of "How to be an Antiracist," says it's harder to prove intent and consciousness in racism and that's why politicians have defined racism that way for generations. The concept came into play in the recent race for Memphis mayor. Kendi didn't comment on that controversy but says the idea has become part of the nation's political discourse.

Huddle House Inc. announced Oct. 22 it has completed its purchase of Memphis-based Perkins Restaurant & Bakery.

Memphis police are investigating the 37th interstate shooting, which was Oct. 23 on Interstate 240 and Poplar. 

The Collective, the Memphis organization serving opportunity youth, is now The Collective Blueprint.

Power restoration and other cleanup and repair efforts continued Wednesday, two days after an EF-1 tornado touched down in Southeast Memphis as part of a Monday morning storm system.

The school district found that 60% of teachers at Southwest Early College High School do not have proper licensing for the classes they are teaching.