Memphis police chief goes for a walk with a city council member who says residents of her district can’t sleep at night for fear of being shot in their beds.

Pose 901 offers a place for visitors to snap photos in a variety of Memphis-themed settings.

The formation of the Soulsville USA Neighborhoods Development District was not an overnight creation but was and is, a culmination of years of hard work, planning and community engagement at the grassroots level.

A billboard depicting a young girl holding melting ice cream now stands on Interstate 55, across from the Valero refinery in South Memphis. 

Jeff Cohran brings experience of world tours and years in the music industry with pop star Janelle Monáe to the faculty at the University of Memphis.

LeMoyne-Owen welcomed back students — prospective or current — for the first since the campus closed last March at the COVID-19 pandemic’s beginning; a moment that brought joy and excitement to staff and faculty at Memphis’ only HBCU.

If it all comes together the undeveloped intersection of Elvis Presley Boulevard and Holmes Road in Whitehaven could be home to the second-largest Black-owned film studio in the U.S. within a few years.

EDGE awarded a $100,000 grant focusing on Whitehaven as part of a large effort to work with local economic development partners throughout the county.

The former Sears location in the Hickory Ridge Mall will reopen as an indoor storage business as early next month.

It all started years ago when Jason Farmer’s grade-school-age son said he wanted to be a filmmaker. On Thursday, the Land Use Control Board approved a planned development for an 85-acre film- and TV-production complex in Whitehaven.

Proposed is a 15,000-square-foot building that includes a 7,000-square-foot soundstage, all to help young Memphians prepare for careers in film and television.

Sarah Houston, who has devoted her career to water resource management and protection, will lead Protect Our Aquifer as the nonprofit group enters a new phase of its existence.

The former United Equipment Building towers over Lamar Avenue and the surrounding community.

‘I’m not opposed to funding social programs, but let’s do it without pretending there’s morality in extracting money from people this way.’

After a year-long programming hiatus, Tone is celebrating its relaunch with an event tomorrow at its gallery in the Lamar Airways Shopping Center. 

Last week’s declared “truce” notwithstanding, a group of citizens opposing construction of an oil pipeline through South Memphis neighborhoods want two lawsuits involving the project to move forward.

The new facility will offer a community resource center, early childhood learning center, wellness center, gymnasium — and, yes, a new indoor swimming pool. 

The application states that the 85-acre filmmaking studio will rival any facility in Hollywood, Atlanta or London.

Residents polled in South Memphis identified blight removal as the No. 1 issue they’d like TIF money to address, but also affordable housing, stronger local retail, and improved streets and sidewalks.

Many of the speakers reiterated concerns about the pipeline’s potential impact on the city’s aquifer and questioned why the Byhalia Connection had to run through predominantly lower-income Black neighborhoods in Memphis.

Plains All American Pipeline is launching a full-on offensive against the proposed legislation with the help of organizations that support the oil and gas industry. 

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