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Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone, addressed the October launch of More for Memphis, an ambitious community development initiative to improve social and economic mobility in Memphis and Shelby County. (Photo courtesy of More for Memphis)

Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone, addressed the October launch of More for Memphis, an ambitious community development initiative to improve social and economic mobility in Memphis and Shelby County. (Photo courtesy of More for Memphis)

Development

Ambitious new initiative strives to dismantle the poverty trap in Memphis

For tens of thousands of children in Memphis, most of them children of color, poverty is not a temporary living condition. It’s a trap...

David WatersMarch 30, 2023