After only five months since the removal of the monuments for Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis, Tennessee lawmakers voted to penalize the city of Memphis and take $250,000 out of the bicentennial celebration budget for next year. After first being denied by the Tennessee Historical Commission ...
The Student Activities Council has announced BlocBoy JB and Jeremih as two of the three artists scheduled to perform at this year’s Spring Fling. SAC released the lineup for the Spring Fling performers via Twitter on Wednesday, and some students are indifferent about the selection. Madison Inman, ...
As people stood in front of the National Civil Rights Museum in Downtown Memphis on Wednesday and listened to the words of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Gina Belafonte and Bernice King (Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter) and the echo of the infamous Mountaintop speech, observers such as ...
As media evolves, the lens through which women and people of color are depicted on screen widens. The blockbuster hit “Black Panther” broke the mold by showing a reversal of gender roles and illustrating black people in non-stereotypical settings, but as women and people of color make progress, ...
Proper knowledge of consent, as well as proper sexual education and where to go to find information on both subjects, is not always accessible for college students. A group discussion, called “Evolution of Sex”, on Wednesday allowed students to be educated on the whole sexual spectrum. Stonewall ...
Students across the United States demanded action against gun violence in a National School Walkout one month after the shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. University of Memphis students joined the nationwide protest Wednesday and observed a moment ...
For many teenagers, college is the first time they are on their own or could even be the first time they have left home. Depending on a teenager’s circumstances, college could be the furthest thing from their mind, but a local non-profit, One Step Initiative, is reinforcing the idea of secondary education ...
The University of Memphis is proof 50 years later society is moving forward, but based on the percentage of African-American student’s graduating on time, the stigmas preventing black students from seeking higher education in the past might be affecting them now. Shortly after Martin Luther King, ...
A group of individuals from diverse racial, gender and socio-economic backgrounds at the University of Memphis has come together not only to initiate the conversation about sexual assault between the student body and the faculty, but also to keep it going among students. Safety Net is an organization ...
It is not uncommon to see many people walking around looking down at their smartphones or to see people slouched while sending a text message, but there are long-term effects that poor posture from holding cell phones and working at computers could have on the neck and spinal cord of young adults, ...
