University of Memphis fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha hosted a blood drive in partnership with Lifeblood of Memphis in the Central parking lot Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fraternity's philanthropy chair, Chris Xa, said he felt that some organization should fill the void of the Lifeblood center that ...
Sammie Burnett Johnson helped changed the face of the Memphis State campus in 1959. Johnson was one of the first group of African-American students, known as the Memphis State Eight, to attend The University. Johnson, 71, died of bone cancer in her Grandville, Mo., home Saturday, Jan. 15th. She is the ...