Oh, snap: This week’s best photos
Memphis 901 FC fans celebrate a home opener win over Atlanta United 2 in Autozone Park June 16, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Memphis Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins smashes the ceremonial guitar before a June 16, 2021 Memphis 901 FC home game. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Memphis 901 FC midfilder Kadeem Dacres (10) plays in front of the first packed house in over a year during the team's home opener against Atlanta United 2 June 16, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Memphis Police Department interim chief Mike Ryall hugs ATF special agent Mark Jordan, who's handling Piper, a 3-year-old explosives detection K-9, at the fourth Unity Walk Against Gun Violence at Hamilton High School on Saturday, June 12, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Paula Raiford poses stands on the dance floor of Paula & Raiford's Disco, her popular Downtown Memphis late night mainstay. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
West Clinic Cancer Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sylvia Richey speaks during a press conference announcing a partnership with Saint Francis Hospital on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Graduates prepare before the start of the Watkins Overton High School Commencement at the Renasant Convention Center on Wednesday. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Liberty Park groundbreaking Monday, June 14, 2021 at for the Liberty Park youth sports complex on the southwest corner of the fairgrounds property. (Bill Dries/Daily Memphian)
We’ve learned a few things in the past year. The pandemic made West Clinic doctors aware of the need for a special acute care facility for cancer patients. Overton High’s class of 2021 remembered the 2020 grads who didn’t get a traditional ceremony. Memphis 901 FC showed out in the first no-restrictions home game since March 2020. And the Memphis disco scene is stayin’ alive.
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