The Last Hurrah For Foote Homes and Booker T. Washington High
When the United States Department of Education complained about the location of Memphis’ all-Black Kortrecht High School in the middle of a noisy, smokey rail …
Redevelopment
Bringing Art To The Neighborhoods in Memphis
This has been a relatively rough year for Memphis, and yet one of the more uplifting things I have noticed has been the spreading of …
The Shame of Horton Gardens
Back in the early 1970’s, Shelby County formed their own housing authority and built a housing project called Horton Gardens, at the dead-end of Horton …
Music, Arts and Local Goods at the Broad Avenue Art Walk @BroadAveArts
Not that many years ago, Broad Street (as we called it then) was largely vacant, except for a bar or two and the venerable Broadway …
The Forgotten Legacy of Chero-Cola
One of the cooler things about building renovations is that sometimes they uncover pieces of history, such as old plaques or advertising signs. Such was …
Bringing Light to Prichard’s Alabama Village
In Prichard, Alabama, where there never seems an end to bad news, the neighborhood called Alabama Village is frequently the subject of really bad news- …