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Dr. Khadija Ali, left, became a Bridge Builder 12 years ago, and now her youngest brother Abdullah Elahi, right, is a Bridge Builder. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian

Dr. Khadija Ali, left, became a Bridge Builder 12 years ago, and now her youngest brother Abdullah Elahi, right, is a Bridge Builder. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian

Hope in Memphis

Future is now for city’s teenage peace corps

Hope in Memphis is a recurring series about people who are working every day in Memphis to defy and defeat crime and violence, poverty and...

David WatersOctober 3, 2022

Rita Franklin, 68, sits among boxes packed of her belongs on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 in her dining room. Most remaining public housing in Memphis is being privatized by HUD's RAD program. It is forcing hundreds of people to move out of subsidized housing for months so housing can be rehabbed. Franklin will likely not be able to return to her Uptown home she’s lived in for over 15 years. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

Rita Franklin, 68, sits among boxes packed of her belongs on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 in her dining room. Most remaining public housing in Memphis is being privatized by HUD's RAD program. It is forcing hundreds of people to move out of subsidized housing for months so housing can be rehabbed. Franklin will likely not be able to return to her Uptown home she’s lived in for over 15 years. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

Neighborhoods

The end of public housing in Memphis, but not resident “relocations”

For the second time in a generation, government-subsidized housing in Memphis is undergoing a massive and expensive transformation — and public housing residents are...

David WatersFebruary 10, 2022

PWYS players (faces, from left) Axel Galvez, Yoshua Kibasomba, Juan Lopez, Mark Hernandez, Cesar Urbina, Maryo Elkeish, Franklin Alvarado, and Edgar Hernandez, admire their 2021 Fall State Cup. (Credit: PWYS)

PWYS players (faces, from left) Axel Galvez, Yoshua Kibasomba, Juan Lopez, Mark Hernandez, Cesar Urbina, Maryo Elkeish, Franklin Alvarado, and Edgar Hernandez, admire their 2021 Fall State Cup. (Credit: PWYS)

Education

Sons of Immigrants, refugees win state soccer title for Memphis

The quarter-final soccer match for the 2021 Fall State Cup was about to begin in Murfreesboro, and the team from Memphis had a problem....

David WatersDecember 6, 2021

Malik Shaw, co-founder and executive director of Midtown Mosque, moved into the Klondike neighborhood in North Memphis five years ago to help their new neighbors address issues of blight, crime and food insecurity. (by Karen Pulfer Focht)

Malik Shaw, co-founder and executive director of Midtown Mosque, moved into the Klondike neighborhood in North Memphis five years ago to help their new neighbors address issues of blight, crime and food insecurity. (by Karen Pulfer Focht)

Faith

A mosque grows in Memphis: Muslims help Neighborhood with blight, poverty

The Klondike neighborhood in North Memphis has dozens of vacant lots and boarded-up houses, several closed schools and struggling little churches, and one mosque....

David WatersSeptember 13, 2021

Neighborhoods

‘Original Community organizer’ Stoy Bailey mourned as humble champion

“Stoy was a kind and caring soul who devoted his life to helping others."

David WatersAugust 30, 2020

Carpenter Art Garden volunteer Jane Pate reads “Last Stop on Market Street” to after-school student Javion Hicks, 7. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Carpenter Art Garden volunteer Jane Pate reads “Last Stop on Market Street” to after-school student Javion Hicks, 7. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Neighborhoods

Part 3: Binghampton cherishes its diversity, plans what’s next as development creeps in

Mutual aid, admiration builds neighborhood support systems

David WatersOctober 24, 2019

Steve Shular, City of Memphis special assistant for neighborhood concerns, surveyed vacant homes and blighted areas last week on Red Oak Street in Binghampton. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Steve Shular, City of Memphis special assistant for neighborhood concerns, surveyed vacant homes and blighted areas last week on Red Oak Street in Binghampton. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Neighborhoods

Part 2: A TIF grows in Binghampton after decades of Disinvestment

New TIF brings inspiration, investment to old neighborhood

David WatersOctober 23, 2019

General Contractor Octavius Nickson (left) and Noah Gray, executive director of the Binghampton Development Corp., chat as a bulldozer razes vacant homes on Tillman Cove. during ‘Demolition Day’ ceremony Sept. 9. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)

General Contractor Octavius Nickson (left) and Noah Gray, executive director of the Binghampton Development Corp., chat as a bulldozer razes vacant homes on Tillman Cove. during ‘Demolition Day’ ceremony Sept. 9. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)

Neighborhoods

Part 1: razing relic to past gives hope to blighted, forgotten neighborhood

'Demolition Day' a welcome sign of Binghampton's promise

David WatersOctober 23, 2019