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National Civil Rights Museum hosts 35th Annual Freedom Awards
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The 35th annual Freedom Awards took the stage in downtown Memphis Thursday night, honoring trailblazers in civil rights and sports. The star-studded event was held at the Orpheum Theatre. Award-winning actor Larenz Tate hosted, and there were performances from Grammy Award-winning artist Tamela Mann. But the most important part of the night […]
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Clark’s Final-Round Push Highlights CBU Golf Performance
Hot Springs, AR- Christian Brothers University men's golf closed out its three-round tournament with Brandon Clark and Nathan London leading the Buccaneers, as both finished tied for 21st at nine-over par. Clark produced CBU's biggest turnaround of the tournament. After opening at 10-over, he settled in with a one-over second...
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Mallory/Wurtzburger: 80 Exhibitions, 18 Years" celebrates local artists at the Dixon
The Dixon Gallery & Gardens continues its 50th anniversary celebration with "Mallory/Wurtzburger: 80 Exhibitions, 18 Years," an exhibition honoring 18 years of local artists featured in the Mallory/Wurtzburger Galleries. Darel Snodgrass spoke with Dixon's Martha R. Robinson Curator Julie Pierotti about the expansive new exhibition, which brings together many of...
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Olive Branch schedules free Movies Under the Stars series for October
The 2026 Movies Under the Stars series is scheduled to begin Oct. 1 on the front lawn of City Hall in Olive Branch, according to the City of Olive Branch. The city said the event will continue each Thursday night during October, with movies beginning at 7 p.m. The lineup...
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Tri-State Blues Festival Returns to Southaven Oct. 17
Southern soul and blues fans will fill Southaven’s biggest arena next month. The 23rd Annual Memphis Tri-State Blues Festival is set for Saturday, Oct. 17, at Landers Center, bringing a lineup of well-known soul-blues performers to DeSoto County for one night of music. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and...
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Fantasia Bringing Love of Soul Tour to Southaven’s Landers Center April 10
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — GRAMMY® Award-winning vocalist Fantasia Barrino is bringing the Love of Soul Tour to Landers Center in Southaven on April 10, 2027, with fellow R&B standouts Anthony Hamilton and October London joining her on stage. The show is set for 8 p.m. at Landers Center, 4560...
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100 Years, 5,200 Editions: The Hebrew Watchman Celebrates its Centennial
Leo and son Herman Goldberger, late 1970s. Jewish newspapers once seemed as abundant as synagogues, with daily, weekly and monthly publications of all shapes and sizes rolling out of print shops from Southern California to New England, and all significant pockets of Jewish culture in between. During the wild independent...
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Brooks Museum of Art closes in Overton Park
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park is closed. This is in preparation for its reopening as the Memphis Art Museum in downtown Memphis. WREG spoke to visitors who say the move is bittersweet. Since 1916, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has called midtown its home. It’s been a […]
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Hernando Water Tower Festival Draws Record 150 Vendors
The Hernando Water Tower Festival set a new mark this weekend, with a record 150 vendors lining the festival grounds as families packed into Hernando on Saturday for one of DeSoto County’s longest-running fall traditions. The event, hosted by the Hernando Main Street Chamber of Commerce for more than 20 years, also brought back live music for the first time in six years.
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Indigo Girls, Linda Perry show at Overton Park Shell postponed until November
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Overton Park Shell announced that the Indigo Girls’ Tuesday night show, featuring special guest Linda Perry, has been rescheduled to November 2nd. Park officials said the show was postponed because members of the Indigo Girls were ill. Tickets will be honored for the rescheduled...
American Songwriter
Born 90 Years Ago Today in Tennessee, the Teen Pop Idol Turned Country Star Who Co-Wrote George Jones’ Favorite Song
Born in Memphis on this day (September 21) in 1936, Royden Dickey Lipscomb — known professionally as Dickey Lee — is responsible for an impressive number of chart-topping hits. The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member’s resume includes “She Thinks I Still Care” by George Jones; “Let’s Fall To Pieces Together” by George Strait; Reba McEntire’s “You’re The First Time I’ve Thought about Leaving”; “I’ll Be Leaving Alone” by Charley Pride; and Tracy Byrd’s 1995 hit “The Keeper of the Stars”.
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A Four-Time Grammy Winner Just Held Class at Stax
Young musicians in Memphis got a lesson most producers only dream about. On Saturday, Sept. 26, Stax Music Academy hosted four-time Grammy winner James Fauntleroy for his “Beat Garden” workshop, a free, hands-on afternoon that put real production tools and music technology directly in students’ hands. Instead...
Black Enterprise
From The Desk Of The National Civil Rights Museum On Its 35th Anniversary
This Museum was born of community vision. Thirty-five years ago today, on Sept. 28, 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum opened its doors at the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Today, we pause to honor that day, the people who made it possible, and the millions of visitors from around the world who have walked through those doors since.
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Dr. Logan H. Westbrooks Preserves a Powerful Piece of Memphis History in Lauderdale Sub: Memories of a Memphis Neighborhood
Long before Dr. Logan H. Westbrooks became a pioneering music executive whose career helped expand opportunities for Black artists and executives, his foundation was being built in a close-knit Memphis neighborhood known as Lauderdale Sub. In his book, Lauderdale Sub: Memories of a Memphis Neighborhood, Westbrooks returns to those roots, preserving the people, families, churches, values and memories of a community whose influence reached far beyond its geographic boundaries.
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Constitution Day Celebration and Awards Ceremony Hosted by the Memphis-Shelby County Daughters of the American Revolution- Karen Pulfer Focht, is Honored
This blog was written by Sandra Chando, Chickasaw Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Memphis photojournalist Karen Pulfer Focht received the Women in the Arts Award from the NSDAR at the Memphis-Shelby County Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Day celebration September 12, 2026 at the Historic Magnolia Cemetery. Constitution Week is celebrated September 17-23 across America. The award honors her outstanding contributions to visual storytelling and American cultural history. Presented through the Chickasaw Bluff Chapter of the Tennessee DAR, the award recognizes Focht’s decades of work documenting the people and stories of Memphis and the Mississippi Delta through her internationally recognized photography, exhibitions, and publications.