Memphis stories worth telling.

Government transitions usually happen behind closed doors. Mayor-elect Mickell Lowery's One Shelby transition opened them: nine working groups on a kitchen-table agenda, a public resume bank for 200+ appointed jobs, and labor in the room — CLC President Kevin Bradshaw serves on the team alongside leaders like TCAT Memphis President Dr. Gwendolyn Sutton. What it means for working families, from inside the room. Tap to read.

Citizens all over the world underuse the free resources they already pay for — and none is more underused than the public library. Memphis's ~250 library workers are civil servants in everything but paperwork: they run the story times, the tech labs, the 2-1-1 line, and the genealogy rooms with no civil service protection. They care about the public. On November 3, the public gets to care back. By Kevin Bradshaw, President, Memphis & West TN CLC and founder of LaborEducation.org. Tap to read.

In 2019, a kidney stone sent Labor Education founder Kevin Bradshaw to the ER — where doctors also found a mass on his kidney. A Whitehaven herb shop owner staked his own products on Kevin's healing: soursop and black seed bitters, free if the stone wasn't gone. A week later the stone was gone, the cancer was caught early, the kidney was saved — and every checkup since amazes the doctor. Health is wealth. Tap to read the full testimony.

For nearly 17 years, Memphis ended its day with Kontji Anthony on WMC Action News 5. Then she walked away from the anchor desk to build Youdle — the product-finder platform born from a 34,000-member pandemic Facebook group she ran with her sisters. Honored by the Tennessee General Assembly, back on air hosting Live at 9 on WREG, and still CEO. Tap for her full story, videos, and the coverage.

He bagged groceries across the street from Stax, then became its first staff songwriter — co-writing 'Soul Man' and 'Hold On, I'm Comin'' with Isaac Hayes on an integrated shop floor in a segregated city. Songwriters Hall of Fame. Memphis Music Hall of Fame. And a second act building Memphis's music workforce through MIME and The Consortium MMT. His memoir 'The Soul Man' is out now. Tap for the full story, videos, and coverage.

In 1994, a Cargill corn plant worker named Ruth Rawlings-Banks organized fifty food baskets for a Memphis school. Thirty-two years later, Feed The Needy delivers full holiday meal boxes to thousands of Mid-South families every Easter and Thanksgiving — with volunteers packing from 3 a.m. This year funding cuts forced 3,300 families off the list. Tap to read the full story and become a donor.

In 1995, Sarah Carpenter watched Memphis teenagers who couldn't read — and never let it go. The North Memphis grandmother of thirteen co-founded The Memphis LIFT in 2015: 25,000+ doors knocked, 5,000+ parents organized, and a movement built on one idea — the people closest to the problem should lead the solution. Tap to read the full story.

On May 26, 2003, Stevie Moore's son Prentice was shot and killed leaving a Memphis club. Instead of being consumed by grief, he founded F.F.U.N. — Freedom From Unnecessary Negatives — and has spent over twenty years pulling at-risk youth back from the edge: Stop the Killing, It's Up2Me, the Daily Survival Plan, and support for families impacted by violence. Tap to read the full story.