Our grandchild, born June 10, is part of the flow of the Mississippi where my father's ashes are, and the stream in upstate New York where my brother Frank's ashes are. Just as every one of us is an individual, every one of us is part of something larger, connected in ways large and small, and always to place.

Local data from pre-K this year shows the effectiveness of high-quality early childhood programs. Eighty-five percent of the 7,800 children who attended finished the year "ready for kindergarten," and more likely to read on grade level in third grade. 

District Attorney John Champion is not serving as a P.R. spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service or any other law enforcement agency. He is speaking out for the Hernando shooting victim, whose ordeal has mostly gotten lost amid the violent unrest, the finger pointing and vigils that occurred after Brandon Webber was killed.

Almost as if by a magnetic force, residents were drawn to Ms. Jean. The few gifts she would accept – a hamburger, a blanket, a bag of cherries – were small. But the gift she gave was enormous: She activated compassion and drew her neighborhood closer together.

In a social media post, Webber shares his original rap song “Fly High Kerr-Dulea,” about the shooting death of his childhood friend.

It’s called the music business for a reason, and from the beginning, Sam Phillips’ never-ceasing struggle was to make records he loved while keeping his shoestring operation financially solvent.

There are others out there like me who value the ability to be vulnerable, honest and real as it relates to the adventure of fatherhood. 

Children with fathers are less likely to repeat a grade, more likely to get A's and more likely to enjoy school.

He was 13 years older, the blond guy in the living room reading books and blowing smoke rings, off to college when I was 5, married and off to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop when I was 12. 

The gravity of violent crime continues to loom over Memphis like an ominous storm cloud that stubbornly refuses to break up and move on.

Glenn was not a first generation do-gooder. Helping others and promoting peace and prosperity for all ran deeply in his blood. An hour before he died, he collected money from friends – at a party for a children's nonprofit organization – to help pay the caterer's MLGW bill.

The mayor said he "yields to the will of the body, namely the County Commission. My recommendation is that he does just that so the commission can finish his incomplete homework assignment."

We’ve gone from being the nation’s most-expensive airport for travelers to its 28th most expensive. And flights cost less than $10 more from Memphis than at the 20 next-cheapest airports, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Companies previously opposed to hiring ex-offenders are awakening to the value of creating taxpayers rather than funding perpetrators.

The interfaith organization MICAH wants to make sure former Foote Homes residents have access to a significant number of the new units under construction on the site.

The Lodge, the student magazine at St. George's Independent School, won the Tennessee High School Press Association's 2019 awards for Best Overall Website and second place for Best Overall Newspaper/Newsmagazine. The two co-editors submitted columns about the importance of student newspapers.

The Lodge, the student magazine at St. George's Independent School, won the Tennessee High School Press Association's 2019 award for Best Overall Website and second place for Best Overall Newspaper/Newsmagazine. The two co-editors submitted columns about the importance of student newspapers.

Having a criminal record can be a tough barrier to workforce entry, and we don’t want a lack of funds to be the barrier between getting a job or going back to a life of crime.

At the Normandy American Cemetery where more than 9,000 Americans who helped free France and defeat the Nazis are buried, it is peaceful and verdant now, with straight-line tombstone crosses and Stars of David undulating over the bluffs with the beach and sea beyond.

Richard Halliburton wrote a steamer trunk of bestsellers and syndicated articles, but to call him merely an author would be like calling Indiana Jones merely an anthropologist. And while Indy’s unbelievable fictional adventures are just that, Halliburton’s unbelievable adventures were real.

Inequity not only exists in terms of professional opportunities or pay for women who are musicians, but it also exists in the very situations where creativity is born. The system is rigged to its core.

Roy Nixon was Shelby County mayor less than two years, but it was his attitude toward the 4,500 acres at the Shelby County Penal Farm that led to a vision of that expansive land as a park.

Most of us believe the Second Amendment gives us the unfettered right to own practically any type of weapon – high powered or otherwise – along with unlimited ammunition and accessories to go with it. The Virginia Beach shooter had several extended magazines that allowed him to continuously fire at his victims and responding police officers.

"Imagine that alongside middle school awards for robotics and writing, a student is given an award for showing kindness through these turbulent years. That’s exactly what we’ve done at Hutchison."

Our history of cross-racial voting calls into question whether Memphis might not be ripe for a redistricting of city council and county commission districts that intentionally makes them racially diverse instead of solidly black or solidly white.