COVID-19 is both highly infectious and mildly to moderately lethal, similar to the 1918 influenza pandemic that infected nearly a quarter of the world population.

McQueen’s particular stamp on the program has been to include selections by “living, breathing” composers of color and women composers. He incorporates recordings by Memphis artists such as Lecolian Washington and guitarist Lily Afshar.

There’s a small case about a Valvoline station before the city’s Board of Adjustment that represents a very big decision about how Midtown’s landscape will evolve.

Listen to the prophets Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and today’s prophets, like William Barber II and Bryan Stevenson. Don’t simply say “I am not a racist,” but “I know I’ve got to do more.”

The question ultimately is not whether we can afford a new facility but whether we can afford not to have one.

“Memphis has always been racially-fractured, and I don’t know where we’d be without the greatest duct tape and Gorilla Glue in the world ... music.” 

It was a cosmic certainty that the one for me would be a music lover, too, but you already know the argument I’m here to make: Memphis music is the perfect soundtrack for falling in love, no matter who you are.

The unspoken sentiment behind objections to relaxing residency rules appears to be the prospect that white officers from small towns in North Mississippi, West Tennessee and Eastern Arkansas would be policing unfamiliar territory in North Memphis, South Memphis and Orange Mound.

A survey by Tennesseans for Quality Early Education shows Tennessee voters are unified in their dissatisfaction with the state’s public education system and united in their support for expanding early education. 

His defenders hail Nathan Bedford Forrest's 'great commander' status. But at Fort Pillow, Forrest gained temporary possession of a meaningless fort while making things worse for the Confederate military effort everywhere.

Research has repeatedly determined that when we treat kids like kids, public safety outcomes improve. If the Shelby County Sheriff, DA and judges want to combat serious crimes, they need to stop investing in failed “get tough” strategies for youthful offenders.

Ginger Spickler saw a billboard for a foundation that was giving away $10 million to five teams who could prove they were ready to “reinvent high school.” She thought: “Memphis could really use this.”

It’s just flat mean of the Tennessee Legislature to continue to deny even basic health insurance to some 300,000 working Tennesseans just to make a political point.

Instead of the word salad that came from Tennessee’s senior Republican senator late on the evening of Jan. 30, all we really needed was a single sentence.

When laws unfairly give companies the upper hand in negotiations with labor unions, all workers suffer the consequences.

One of the most prominent shakers and movers in the effort to create Super Tuesday in 1988 was then-Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter. 

While we cannot stop the entry of the flu virus into the general population, we can do a great deal to stop the entry and spread of the coronavirus.

Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.

The 2019 numbers in the Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet showed an increase in the poverty rate for almost every group in Memphis, except for Hispanics.

To address the space deficit to meet the needs of students and faculty, the U of M submitted a proposal for state funding for a new STEM building in the next budget cycle, which will be decided upon this month.

At 25, Andrea left Venezuela and moved to Memphis, where her uncle is a mechanical engineer. She applied to work as a waitress, in retail and in day care, and each place told her she was over-qualified. Finally, in 2015, she took a job at Church Health.

The CEO of FedEx Corp., the chairman of Belz Enterprises and a former Shelby County sheriff and mayor weigh in on the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare plan to take over the two Saint Francis hospitals in the area. 

'One size does not fit all. But you, Memphis, are a testament to how parks can function as true civic spaces.'

Stax greats Booker T. and Carla Thomas on stage together. Grizz great Tony Allen back at the Grindhouse. "Bluff City Law" in limbo but keeping hope alive. Plus, seven more observations on the month in Memphis. 

You may not think you know Rob Norcross, but you do. He was the architect for the most acclaimed minor league ballpark in the country, and for the home of grit and grind.