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 ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct a name spelling. Moments before he was fatally shot, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out to jazz saxophonist Ben Branch from the balcony of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memphis has long had legendary women pushing the city forward. Among those is Ida B. Wells Barnett, the journalist, teacher and ...

A Wednesday afternoon panel discussion at the University of Memphis promised to showcase some of the untold local stories of the civil rights movement. This it did, although a few emotional outbursts ...

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 ...

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 ...