Memphis News Today: Stories That Matter to Our City

Downtown Memphis is the place to be for Tennessee whiskey lovers this weekend – and that’s official Tennessee whiskey as well as other kinds of whiskey made in the state. We have a big birthday, so the Tennessee Whiskey Trail is coming to us. You might also be interested in: Memphis Restaurants | Best Places…

One of the campaigns for Southern Equality’s central programs is the Southern Equality Fund, through which they provide funding and training to Southern LGBTQ folks doing heroic organizing in their hometowns.

The biggest adaptive reuse initiative in Tennessee and the largest LEED Platinum Certified historic adaptive reuse project in the world, the $210 million complex was nearly a decade in the making. You might also be interested in: Business in Memphis: A Hub for Innovation and Creativity

Memphis’ innovation leaders are carefully building inclusion, community, and civic responsibility into their entrepreneurial ecosystem. San Francisco, New York, and Boston—take note

Memphis and Shelby County officials announced a number of bicentennial events for an ongoing celebration coined “A New Century of Soul.”

If you’ve heard rumblings about Memphis making a comeback, there’s no better month to get out and see it than May, when downtown hosts the massive Memphis in May festival.

The city of Memphis is most known for Graceland and other historical haunts like Beale Street. But a recent rise in its millennial population (4th fastest rate in the country, according to TIME) has sparked a revitalization of its arts and culture scene.