Memphis News Today: Stories That Matter to Our City

All White Affair! Thousands of people gathered at Mud Island River Park in Memphis on Saturday evening for one of the city’s annual marquee parties. The attire was varied from T-shirts to dresses, but all the guests had one thing in common — they wore all-white attire. That’s a mandatory rule for admission to the…

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with CARD, the lifestyle personal finance leader to bring you 16 new debit card designs – straight from Memphis, the epicenter of Soul! Now you can show off your Memphis pride every time you pay at the register.    Choose your favorite Memphis image or mark…

A Memphis-based ballet organization has just been named a “Southern Cultural Treasure.” Because of that designation, Collage Dance Collective will receive up to $300,000 in general operating grants — distributed over three years — and a project grant of up to $7,500 from nonprofit regional arts organization South Arts. Collage and 16 other organizations located…

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital recently received two separate, national-level accolades for its health care and nonprofit services. On June 1, U.S. News and World Report identified St. Jude as the second-best pediatric cancer care hospital in the country; and then on June 17, Morning Consult ranked St. Jude as the most trusted nonprofit in…

Memphis Grizzlies All-NBA guard Ja Morant has agreed to a five-year designated rookie extension that’ll likely be worth $231 million, his agent, Jim Tanner of Tandem/YouFirst Sports, told ESPN. Morant, who made All-NBA Second Team, is guaranteed $193 million and will trigger supermax escalators to take the deal to $231 million upon again landing on…

Memphis is the perennial underdog. From the outside looking in, it shouldn’t have much to offer. Built on cotton farming and now airmail—FedEx has its global headquarters in the city and is the largest employer—it’s a city with humble roots, but both culturally and historically, it’s always managed to punch well above its weight. And…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Children in one Mid-South community have a safer place to play thanks to a local comedian and activist. Mario Bradley, who performs as Grove Hero, is known for making people laugh with his comedy routines onstage. Offstage, he’s known for giving back to the community with housing and meals for the needy.…

Like any other self-respecting golf fan, Joe Tomek was glued to the final round of the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday. Tomek watched an exciting battle among PGA stars Rory McIlroy, Tony Finau and Justin Thomas, with McIlroy eventually coming out on top. But as the new executive director of the FedEx St. Jude Championship,…

There’s a bumper sticker you sometimes see around town that proclaims “Summer Ave. is My Poplar.” While neither of us adorns our car with one of these, we sort of feel that way and are both frequent travelers along this street, which starts, on the west end, like a Lou Reed song and continues colorfully…