FIGHT FOR EQUALITY 🗣️ Memphis' importance in the fight for civil rights dates to the Civil War when the city was under Union occupation.

Moments before he was fatally shot, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out to jazz saxophonist Ben Branch from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to request a song. Today, Branch's saxophone rests at ...

Soon after becoming dean of the University of Memphis School of Public Health, one of my top goals was to take our academic programs beyond the boundaries of the university campus into the local ...

About four hours south of St. Louis, Memphis has plenty to offer beyond barbecue and Graceland. In her latest novel, Marilynne Robinson, acclaimed literary champion of the Midwest, even draws a thread ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For much of his life, Roderick, a high school junior, did not enjoy reading. As a boy, he trudged through picture books that his mother encouraged him to read. As a teenager, he has ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that 12 women and one man are honored in Equality Trailblazers' installation. The busts, which sit in front of the glass panels, honor six women ...

Memphis has long had legendary women pushing the city forward. Among those is Ida B. Wells Barnett, the journalist, teacher and anti-lynching crusader whose life was threatened because of her views ...