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Whether Forrest Avenue in Memphis was renamed to honor the Confederate general is still up for debate, but street signs reading “Forrest Avenue” are coming down.

Local musicians gathered at the Clayborne Temple on Tuesday to honor the life of Omar Higgins, bassist and vocalist for the bands Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and Negro Terror.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland is set to address last night’s situation in Frayser, where a large crowd confronted local police after a deadly shooting by U.S. Marshals.

“Cyntoia could’ve been from Memphis… the facts of her case, the poverty she grew up in. So it resonates with the work and the change were trying to make,” Sawyer said.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A series of events Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the removal of two confederate statues from Memphis parks. But a year later, some are finding that the memories of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest are harder to remove than their statues were. “That pedestal still casts a big shadow […]

“Shelby County’s transfer rate is so, so far different from everyone else in the state.”

Harris is proposing the county build a brand new juvenile justice education center to replace the current detention center. He sees the new space with a full range of social services, adequate classrooms and a functioning gym.

The Department of Justice announced Friday it is closing its monitoring of the Juvenile Court and detention center in Memphis.

“It was depressing,” Commissioner Reginald Milton said of the leaky roof and peeling paint.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Groups in Memphis came together Thursday to commemorate a year since the city’s Confederate statues were taken down, but it comes in a time of uncertainty for the parks. The City of Memphis sold the two parks where the statues of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood to Memphis Greenspace, […]

The resolution by Commissioner Tami Sawyer and Councilman Edmund Ford Jr. comes in the wake of Monday night’s shooting of a man by Memphis Police officers.