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Children are at higher risk for gun violence since the pandemic began, according to two new studies of child gunshot victims treated at Le...
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Children are at higher risk for gun violence since the pandemic began, according to two new studies of child gunshot victims treated at Le...
“When children are exposed to a traumatic event, including a violent crime, their response may vary.” – American Academy of Pediatrics Hundreds of yellow...
Shelby County’s two-decade effort to reduce infant mortality has been a stunning success by many measures. Babies here are twice as likely to be...
When they joined a religious order decades ago, Maureen Griner and Margaret Ann Zinselmeyer took vows of poverty. The Ursuline Sisters of Mount St....
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...
Mr. Bobowski tried everything he could think of to turn the two KIPP charter schools in North Memphis he led into launching pads for...
A dozen members of a generation that regularly experiences active shooter drills and “soft” and “hard” lockdowns in their schools hosted a meeting the...
There’s no great mystery about why teen births have been declining steadily in Shelby County for 15 years. “Education and contraception work,” said Ashley...
Jackie Johnson, a 23-year-old single mother of two, lives on a street in South Memphis that has more vacant lots and abandoned houses than...
A 14-year-old boy was playing basketball in a park near his home last year when a bullet fired from a passing car tore through...