Randall Mullins and Sharon Pavelda founded a project to identify and memorialize lynching sites in Shelby County, and  helped create a community of supporters, from the National Park Service to the local NAACP, preachers and politicians, activists and academics.

Whataburger? A dehumidifier? An athletic director? What do you get a city for its 200th birthday?

Don Hassell says Memphians should wear their civic pride on May 22, the day the city's first land was purchased.

Local leaders cut the ribbon Wednesday on a new social media icon on Mud Island, and Orange Mound celebrated Memphis' bicentennial day by marking 100 years since it was annexed by the city.

A series of events will mark the founding of Memphis, which is technically 200 years ago Wednesday. 

This year is Memphis' bicentennial, but while there's been Memphis music as long as there's been a Memphis, you can't listen back 200 years. As a result, our three-part Memphis Music Road Map is a de facto centennial of sound. This second part follows a trail from B.B. King's first recordings to the rise of rock 'n' roll and soul, on to Al Green's rejection of secular soul, the emergence of alternative Memphis and Beale Street's decline.

This year is Memphis' bicentennial, but while there's been Memphis music as long as there's been a Memphis, you can't listen back 200 years. As a result, our three-part Memphis Music Road Map is a de facto centennial of sound. This final installment follows a trail from the lost decade of the '80s, to rap and indie rock of the '90s, the new bands and breakthroughs of the 2000s, and finally, Memphis music now.

This year is Memphis' bicentennial, but while there's been Memphis music as long as there's been a Memphis, you can't listen back 200 years. As a result, our three-part Memphis Music Road Map is a de facto centennial (and a little more) of sound. We tell a story of Memphis music's evolution one song at a time, from early blues and the Beale Street sound to the golden age of Sun and Stax and on to the contemporary styles of rock and rap. This first part follows the trail from W.C. Handy to the dawn of World War II.  

By the city’s 200th anniversary on May 22, people looking out of their Downtown offices and crossing the bridges back and forth across the Mississippi River will have a different view when they peer out over Mud Island.

Memphis and the Mississippi River are joined eternally. Our relationship with the river, and the stories buried deep in its muddy waters, define who we have been even as we wrestle with questions that will define who we become.

The Mississippi River has been lubricating the economic machinery of Memphis since land speculators put down stakes where a high bluff overlooked the muddy terminus of the Wolf River.

Several new events around the city into November offer those outside Memphis a glimpse of the city's creative and innovative future as a welcome mat to the Memphis experience, including its struggles.

The circa-1836 home of Irish immigrant Eugene Magevney is open for tours Fridays through April 12 and has plans as well as a wish list for a more active future.

The bicentennial observance includes the world's longest picnic table, fireworks, skydivers, an airshow and a parachute team.

A new exhibit on the city's bicentennial combines some elements of the city's history in a display that is also about what is means to be a Memphian. The exhibit at the Memphis Pink Palace Museum runs through October.

A yearlong series of stories will chronicle the past, present and future of Memphis as part of the city's bicentennial celebration in 2019.

The start of a Memphis Public Libraries lecture series on the city's bicentennial draws a standing-room-only crowd, while the Memphis Pink Palace museum prepares for a March opening of its own bicentennial exhibit.

As the city of Memphis prepares to mark its 200th anniversary, the Chickasaw Nation is finding the story of its origins in a part of the city Native Americans left 500 years ago.