Wanda and Chip Washington are back at work four months after their paired kidney exchange.

Tamra ‘Chef Tam’ Patterson goes on ‘Chopped,’ shows everyone what you do in a BLT battle and brings the win home to Memphis.

MLK PrayWalk: An Interfaith Prayer Service and Walk of Hope started with a gathering at St. Peter’s Church and concluded on the grounds of the National Civil Rights Museum.

With several key players having graduated, the Saints are relying heavily on Matthew Dallas.

After the Grizzlies beat the Warriors in January, Ja Morant stared down a kid in a Golden State jersey. The kid is Maddox Hehn, 8, from Nashville. He was back at FedExForum Monday night. But he sure looked different this time around.

“We chose to come today because veterans need jobs just like any other normal person is looking for a job at any age,” said one human resources administrator.

“I know it’s crazy. I understand that. But these kids can’t wait for the war to end,” said Dr. William Novick.

By the summer of 2024, the South City Museum & Cultural Center will celebrate the people and landmarks of the Historic South Memphis area.

Nikodem Niziolek, a Christian Brothers University student from Poland, and his family helped the Ukrainian relatives of Memphis realtor Oksana Piven escape Russian attacks. 

Memphian Ali Manning has written a new children’s book to help grow healthier adults. 

Over the past several years, Britney Thornton has emerged as a leader through her work with the homeless and the underserved.

“In a city that is more than 60% African American, I couldn’t believe that there weren’t any Black-owned bookstores,” Jeremee DeMoir said before opening DeMoir Books and Things on White Station Road. 

Left in a house without power, Orange Mound residents Jake and Vennie McIntosh — ages 92 and 91 — died together in the recent ice storm.

Julie Barrett went to her very first game at FedExForum Thursday. But you’d have to travel a long way (1,000 miles, anyway) to find a more devoted Memphis Tigers fan. 

It was a memorable weekend for Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies at the NBA All-Star festivities. And that was before Morant threw down his eye-popping dunk.

The Remote Monitoring program is currently implemented in one home, with the goal of expanding to five houses where people supported through Shelby Residential and Vocational Services live.

The Memphis Area Association of Realtors (MAAR) annual Make-A-Wish Golf Tournament is the single-largest external fundraising event for Make-A-Wish Mid-South, exceeding $500,000 in the event’s 11-year history. 

The “Race for Reconciliation,” a 5K walk/run, will start at noon Monday, Jan. 17 at AutoZone Park as part of MLK Day activities.

Juice Orange Mound, an organization dedicated to uplifting the neighborhood, is hosting a cleanup event in the wooded area in which Mike Miller resides.

It was a quiet Thursday at FedExForum. But Ja Morant is so incandescent, he makes every night a memory.

Unbeknownst to each other, Desmond Bane and Ja Morant each called the Grizzlies “a team full of underdogs.”

Wanda Fern Herrington wrote gospel songs. Robert Curtis collected country and folk records. The music they loved was part of who they were, and helped carry them through to the end. 

Homes measuring around 280 square feet are planned to be built in cottage courts in Raleigh, Orange Mound and other neighborhoods by Homes for Hearts and its partner organizations. 

The Anglican archbishop who died Sunday, Dec. 26, came to Memphis in 1992 to receive the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award.

Daily Memphian staff photographers Patrick Lantrip and Mark Weber take a look back at their work from 2021, and picked these photos to show what the year looked like through their lenses.