Smart City Memphis

Current-day patterns of occupational segregation in Memphis and the United States are rooted in inequitable hiring practices. The long-term employment of workers of color and immigrant workers in low-wage, low-quality jobs — factory work, mining, farming, domestic labor, and custodial and food services — is central to American labor history, as the social and politica...

Cartoonist Bill Day never fails to prove the point that a picture – in his case, a cartoon – is worth a thousand words. Former Memphian and Commercial Appeal cartoonist, he is the recipient of numerous professional awards, including two-time winner of the RFK Journalism award in Cartooning which is given to cartoonists whose work reflects Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s c...

60 years ago the National Historic Preservation Act became law with broad bipartisan support. On Nov. 9 it may be killed by the federal government.  

An unprecedented Coalition has formed to fight back. When Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act, half of the historic places the federal government had documented in the Historic ...

The AI industry gleefully sold its products as harmful to the interests of ordinary people. Thankfully, ordinary people decided that there would be consequences for that.

From The New Republic, Matt Ford, August 27, 2026:

A certain segment of American elites has recently realized that people don’t like AI, dat...

Mother and her 14-month-old daughter in baby buggy were killed in Russian drone strike as they strolled through a Ukraine park.

War-weary Ukrainians say Washington’s withdrawal of missile defense aid is ‘collusion with Putin’ and attempt to force Zelensky’s surrender.

In Trump’s comments, he regularly blames Ukraine for ...