About 350 Thanksgiving birds were distributed Saturday at the event on North Hollywood Street. A day earlier, turkeys were given out in South Memphis, where slain rapper Young Dolph had planned to participate.

“None of us are doing well, but Dolph would have wanted us out here, so we out here giving back to the people just like he would have wanted.”

The organization will enlist the help from volunteers in the community and from four partner organizations to give the neighborhood a good fall cleaning. 

Debra Rich, a cosmetologist and active community member in South Memphis and Horn Lake, spent years researching these inventors and published her findings in “Black Inventors Who Changed History” this year. 

Doses of Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson will be offered.

Construction on the new Fire Station No. 1, at 225 Chelsea Ave., began Thursday morning. To celebrate, the City of Memphis Division of Fire Services hosted a groundbreaking ceremony in the afternoon.

St. Jude presented plans for its proposed garage to the Board of Adjustment Wednesday, but the board postponed the decision until its Dec. 22 meeting.

The five-story development would include residential and retail space. 

Memphis rapper and Billboard Top 10 artist Young Dolph died at a local cookie shop after being fatally shot Wednesday, Nov. 17, spurring an outpouring of grief.

Festivities include Black Restaurant Week, State of the City radio special hosted by Pearl Eva Walker and Kevin Brooks, and the Christmas Tree Lighting at Graceland. 

A California company opens a distribution center in Olive Branch, the renovation of Tri State Iron Works nears completion and the Hilton Garden Inn is bought for $36 million by a Virginia-based investor.

Residents met at The Office@Uptown to hear the results of a community survey regarding a new parking garage Monday morning, just two days prior to St. Jude’s meeting with the Board of Adjustments to ask for approval on the rezoning and height variances. 

The Downtown Mobility Center would stand seven stories on the 1.3-acre surface parking lot immediately north of the Orpheum Theatre and include nearly 1,000 parking spaces and ground-floor retail space.

Five Houston High juniors scheduled a ‘Bus Day’ and traveled across the city on MATA buses to learn what it’s like for those who rely on public transportation every day. 

The Krosstown Kleaners building was built in 1910 and originally served as a bakery, before becoming a dry cleaning business in 1944 with its distinctive neon sign.

“I’m coming out,” 74-year-old Herschel Gilbreath says of his decision to come out as a gay man during a celebration Saturday at OUTMemphis.

The Daily Memphian’s new neighborhoods reporter is a native Memphian who has lived all over the city.

The hotel at Elvis Presley Boulevard would be One Stop Housing’s third property in Memphis. 

Some small businesses in underserved communities in Memphis will soon receive extra support and guidance due to a $1 million grant that was recently given to BLDG Memphis, a coalition of organizations and individuals working to develop and redevelop Memphis neighborhoods. 

The parking garage for St. Jude and ALSAC employees would be built on a 3.25-acre plot of land consisting of seven vacant parcels on A.W. Willis between North 3rd and North 4th streets. 

The project would stand six stories with 975 parking spaces and feature approximately 13,500 square feet of retail space, bike storage and showers. 

Two pop-up events this weekend will offer parents a chance to have their children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated against COVID-19.

A plan to expand the Memphis Zoo parking lot onto the greensward is on hold, but Citizens to Preserve Overton Park activists gathered Saturday in Overton Park to show their willingness to fight.

The BuildDowntown Master Plan and the South City Good Neighbor Grant program both won awards from an international institution for their city planning efforts.