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At 100, Miriam Todd still works 50 hours a week at her furniture store in New Jersey. She shares her simple tips for a long life and why she won't retire.
Miriam DeCosta-Willis (November 1, 1934 – January 7, 2021) was an American educator, writer, and civil rights activist. The first African-American faculty member at Memphis State University, having previously been denied admission to the school as a graduate student due to her race, she spent her career as a professor of Romance languages and African-American studies at a variety of colleges ...
Christ Community Health Services was founded in 1995 in Memphis, Tennessee by four doctors, Rick Donlon, David Pepperman, Karen Miller, and Steven Besh. [7] With a budget of around $46 million a year Christ Community Health Services employs a variety of health care workers ranging from dentists, doctors, pharmacists and behavioral health experts; total employment at Christ Community Health ...
On Sept. 13, the Center City Revenue Finance Corp., an affiliate board of the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC), approved a 10-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes for a 150-room Holiday Inn Express.
The staff of the center included graduate students, several on internships, from the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, the University of Memphis, and Rhodes College. CHOICES had a very prominent profile in the community, with an advisory committee of eminent leaders, professors, and officials.
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Jean Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir. Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. History is littered with cautionary tales of couples who tried to work together, only to be ...
Archie Walter Willis Jr. (March 16, 1925 - 1988) was a lawyer, businessman, and state representative in Tennessee. He was the first African American elected to state office in Tennessee in more than 70 years.
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933 Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [ 9 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate