The United States is filled with fast-food chains and processed food, which often results in an increased amount of obese or overweight people. While some cities in the U.S. like Los Angeles have started to focus more on healthful eating, some other cities in the country are slow on the uptake of this ...
The Tennessee state legislature passed HB 8369 bill that allows child adoption agencies to refuse service to LGBTQ people based on religious or moral beliefs. With bills like HB 836, it presents a possibly damaging image for Tennessee. It potentially leaves the door open for boycotts and other businesses ...
If you have extra bamboo and are unsure what to do with it, the Memphis Zoo will kindly take it off your hands for some of its pandas. Ya Ya and Le Le, two giant pandas, love to eat bamboo, seeing as it makes up 99 percent of their diet, but they are picky with the bamboo they choose to eat. They will ...
For some people, finding our true purpose in life sometimes requires trudging down a path of roadblocks and might take a vast range of experiences. For sports journalust Jemele Hill, it might take a tweet from the President of the United States. The former ESPN sports reporter ...
The Shelby County School Board has officially approved University Middle, making it the third University of Memphis sponsored school. UofM President M. David Rudd expressed his approval in a campus-wide email. “Our hope is to continue to serve as a model of educational innovation and effectiveness, ...
Tennessee became the first state in the South to include transgender people in their hate crime laws. Tennessee’s state attorney general Herbert Slatery issued a statement including transgender people in the state’s hate crime laws Feb. 13. “A ...
The University of Memphis parking garage and pedestrian bridge are being built on Southern Avenue to alleviate students’ issue of being stopped by the train while they are trying to get to class. The construction is near completion, but in the meantime, the section of ...
While some progress has been made with eliminating racism in the United States, the amount of racist incidents reported in media shows there is still a long way to go. Two recent events have sparked controversy across news networks and social media. A picture recently resurfaced from Virginia Gov. Ralph ...
The 2018 NFL season is officially in the books. The New England Patriots have been crowned Super Bowl champions for the sixth time after they defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13-3. It was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl out of the 53 that have been played. Despite what many people refer to as a “snoozefest,†...
The Trump administration’s request to continue limiting transgender people from serving in the United States military has been approved per a Supreme Court ruling Jan. 21. Kevin Baugh, the director of the LGBTQ Veterans Alliance, a local organization, said he views the ban as flawed and unproductive. “I ...
