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By James Coleman TSD Contributing Writer
Former Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins could be the next candidate to enter the race to succeed term-limited Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris.
On Oct. 31, a document was filed with the Tennessee Bureau of Ethics and Campaign Finance by Friends of Marie Feagins that names a political treasurer for a mayoral bid. She has filed as a Democrat.
Feagins won’t be able to officially enter the race until Dec. 22, the official filing date for the 2026 election.
Her most recent public engagement was on Sept. 25, when she moderated a 901 Day summit that included civic leaders and candidates.
“I came to see Memphis grow and to lead it forward and figuring out what that role looks like now still requires showing up in the community,” said Feagins.
Feagins has remained visible in the county following her ouster by the MSCS board in January. Members voted 6-3 to remove Feagins after allegations of misleading the board and accepting a donation without their approval.
Politically speaking, the board’s move backfired. A public uproar was quickly ignited.
In her nine months on the job, the transplant built a sizable following in the community with personal engagement through MSCS schools, as well as through a visible social media presence. Feagins previously worked in Detroit’s public school system.
In the runup to her termination, Shelby County Commission meetings became a popular haunt for Feagins’ supporters to vent their frustrations about the school board. Many demanded a similar response, including calls for their removal from office.
It wasn’t long before members of the
Tennessee Legislature took notice. In July, Gov. Bill Lee signed House Bill 1383, which permits county commissions to reset school board elections.
Commissioners responded with an ordinance realigning MSCS board elections with their own. The controversial measure truncated the four-year terms of five school board members by two years. A veto attempt by Harris was overridden in October.
Now, all nine seats will be up for grabs in the 2026 race. Likewise, the 13 commission spots. Ironically, Feagins could potentially appear on the ballot as well.
Other candidates who have announced their intentions to run for county mayor include Memphis City Council member
JB Smiley Jr., Shelby County Commissioner Mickell Lowery, Shelby County Chief Administrative Officer Harold Collins, County Assessor Melvin Burgess, Criminal Court Clerk Heidi Kuhn, and businessman Rusty Qualls.
They will likely test how much local knowledge the political neophyte has acquired in her short time as a resident.
“I’m excited for her. I really wish her all the best. She is very smart. I know it is always good to have fresh perspective, new voices, anytime you are talking about leadership… certainly on that scale,” MSCS school board member Michelle McKissack told WREG. McKissack voted against Feagins’ dismissal.
Cohen calls
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Trump to
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deporting people ‘not a part of our crime problem’
By Lee Eric Smith TSD Contributing Writer
During the government shutdown, food pantries got slammed as federal workers went unpaid and SNAP benefits were paused. But volunteers at the Immigrant Pantry point to a completely different reason for their recent surge from serving eight families a week to serving 180.
“Hunger didn’t suddenly increase,” said Jessica Miller, who helps run the agency that serves undocumented families in Memphis. “Fear exploded.”
It’s the kind of fear that community leaders — and now Congressman Steve Cohen — say has turned Memphis’ immigrant neighborhoods into places where people are too frightened to drive, too frightened to send their children to school, too frightened to buy formula or diapers.
Cohen is now formally asking the Trump administration to pull ICE out of Memphis, arguing that the agency is terrorizing families who “aren’t part of our crime problem.”
“They’ve decided they’re gonna get anybody that’s in the country improperly, and that’s wrong,” Cohen said Monday, Nov. 17 on the House floor. “It shouldn’t be part of this surge they’ve got to help us with our crime problem. Hispanics, immigrants are not part of our crime problem. And if they were,
you’d go after one or two of them — not so many.”
‘We had families pulled out of cars. Parents didn’t come home.’
At a Tuesday, Nov. 18, news conference, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris once again invited street-level organizations to discuss ways occupation is impacting their neighbors.
When operations began, Miller said, the danger felt immediate and everywhere: routine traffic stops “turned into
detentions,” workplaces “became traps,” and homes were suddenly missing “a parent, a provider, or a loved one.”
People were taken, she said, “without warning, without explanation, without time to even say goodbye.”
The pantry does not ask about immigration status. Asked who Immigrant Pantry serves, Miller shared the answer she routinely gives — delivered as if she had a name and face for every story:
• “We are serving the young mother who was pulled over on the way
her newborn daughter’s first doctor’s appointment… Her husband was taken on the side of the road. She was left alone holding her one-week-old child.”
• “We are serving the grandmother now caring for four children after her son was sent back to a country he hasn’t seen since he was their age.
• “We are serving a mother who fed her infant sugar water for two days because she couldn’t afford formula
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— and was terrified that if she left for work she may never come home to those children.”
“This is who we serve,” she said. “Families, children, human beings who deserve safety, dignity and peace — not terror. We just need to give them food. We do not want someone to be arrested from our parking lot for coming to get help.”
Cohen: ICE is making Memphis less safe, not more
In Washington, Cohen told Congress that at a recent town hall, concerns about ICE and the agency’s tactics were loud, relentless and terrifying.
“They were very concerned about the people from ICE with masks on their face, mistreating people, dragging them out of cars, stomping on their heads and arresting them,” Cohen said. “We’re talking about American citizens and (ICE) did it in error. (Constituents) were also concerned about the immigrants who were taken out of our community who do so much good in
our community.
“Get to the business of taking care of Memphis and not eliminating and deporting people who help our society and our economy,” Cohen concluded.
If fear is choking off access to food and schooling, Inez Negrete says it’s also erasing survivors of violent crime from the justice system entirely.
Negrete, founder and executive director of Casa Luz, a Memphis-based nonprofit that supports Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, said the current climate has reversed years of fragile trust built between immigrant families and law enforcement.
Negrete emphasized that a drop in police reports does not mean violence is falling — it means victims are too terrified to call for help.
“During times of tension or crisis, like COVID, we saw violent cases increase even as reporting decreased,” she said. “That is what we are seeing now. Underreporting is not safety. It’s a sign that people feel hunted.
“During times of tension or crisis, like COVID, we saw violent cases increase even as reporting decreased. That is what we are seeing now. Underreporting is not safety. It’s a sign that people feel hunted.”
“Offenders often exploit the barriers we face — language, discrimination, fear of deportation,” she continued.
“That fear has always created a gap of mistrust with police, and now it is wider than ever.”
“Immigrant victims are extremely reluctant to seek help, even when their lives are in danger,” she said. “With the Memphis Safe Task Force, that fear has intensified. People are staying silent, and that means criminals remain free in our city.”
‘This is not charity. This is solidarity. This is community defense.’
As Miller closed out her remarks during the news conference, she provided comfort and consolation to Memphis’ immigrant community while challenging Memphians to step up and help. Her lightly edited remarks:
“Every week, volunteers across Memphis fill cars with groceries, diapers, formula, and 60-pound boxes of food. We show up quietly, safely, and respectfully, with no questions about status, no paperwork, no judgment, and no conditions.
“This is not charity. This is solidarity. It is community defense. It is Memphis taking care of Memphis when our most vulnerable neighbors are being failed by the systems meant to protect them.
“To immigrant families in our city: we see you, we will keep coming, and you do not have to choose between safety and feeding your children.”
For more about Immigrant Pantry, visit www.indivisiblememphis.org. For more about Casa Luz: https://www. facebook.com/CasaLuzMemphis. To donate via MICAH: https://www.micahmemphis.org/
By Adrian Sainz Associated Press
A task force ordered by President Donald Trump to combat crime in Memphis, has made thousands of arrests, compounding strains on the busy local court system and an already overcrowded jail in ways that concerned officials say will last months or even years as cases play out.
Since late September, hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel tied to the Memphis Safe Task Force have made traffic stops, served warrants and searched for fugitives in the city of about 610,000 people. More than 2,800 people have been arrested and more than 28,000 traffic citations have been issued, data provided by the task force and Memphis police shows.
The task force, which includes National Guard troops, is supported by Republican Gov. Bill Lee and others who hope the surge reduces crime in a city that has grappled with violent crime, including nearly 300 homicides last year and nearly 400 in 2023.
From 2018 to 2024, homicides in Memphis increased 33% and aggravated assaults rose 41%, according to AH Datalytics, which tracks crimes across the country using local law enforcement data for its Real-Time Crime Index. But AH Datalytics reported those numbers were down 20% during the first nine months of this year, even before the task force got to work.
Opponents of the task force say it targets minorities and intimidates law-abiding Latinos, some of whom have skipped work and changed social habits, such as avoiding going to church or restaurants, fearing they will be harassed and unfairly detained. Statistics released at the end of October showed 319 arrests so far on administrative
warrants, which deal with immigration-related issues.
The effects have rippled beyond the streets, into the aging criminal courthouse and the troubled jail. Officials are concerned about long waits in traffic court causing people to miss work and packed criminal court dockets forcing inmates to spend extra days waiting for bail hearings.
“The human cost of it is astounding,” said Josh Spickler, executive director for Just City, a Memphis-based organization that advocates for fairness in the criminal justice system.
The mayor of Shelby County, which includes Memphis, has requested more judges to hear cases that could span months or years. County officials are discussing opening court at night and on weekends, a move that would help manage the caseload but cost more.
Meanwhile, Shelby County Jail inmates are being moved to other facilities because of overcrowding, officials say. Inmates at jail intake are sleeping in chairs, and jail officials are asking county commissioners for funding to help address problems, such as a corrections employees shortage.
These issues raise concerns from activists and officials about safety in a jail that has seen 65 deaths since 2019, according to Just City. Court case backlogs mean defendants and crime victims could spend an unfair amount of time dealing with the criminal justice system, said Steve Mulroy, the county’s district attorney.
“The task force deployment probably could have used more planning,” said Mulroy, a Democrat whose office is cooperating with the task force. “More thought could have been put into the downstream effects of the increased arrest numbers.”
Jail official asks for help
There were hundreds more jail book-
ings and bail settings during the first several weeks of the task force’s operation than during the comparable period last year, an increase of about 40% in each category, according to county statistics.
The jail, which has a regular capacity of 2,400, had an average daily population of 3,195 inmates in September, the most recent month when statistics were available. County officials said that number was expected to rise for October.
As of mid-November, 250 overflow jail detainees were being housed at other facilities, compared with 80 in November 2024. Some of those are outside Shelby County, which makes it harder for lawyers and relatives to visit and increases the cost of bringing defendants to Memphis for hearings.
In a letter to commissioners, Chief Jailer Kirk Fields has requested at least $1.5 million in emergency funds, noting that more inmates means more expenses for food, clothing, bedding and linens.
One issue is whether there are enough judges to hear cases, especially after lawmakers eliminated two judgeships during last year’s session.
On Oct. 31, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris wrote to state court officials asking for additional judges, saying the county is preparing for at least 3,500 to 5,000 people being arrested. More arrests increase jail expenses and the possible hiring of more public defenders, prosecutors and jail employees, he wrote.
“This places Shelby County in extreme financial peril,” Harris wrote.
The Tennessee Supreme Court’s response said that while lower court judges reported more judges are not necessary at this time, it has designated
two senior judges to help should they be needed.
“Part of it is, understanding just what the cadence is going to look like over the next few months and then developing a strategy,” the governor said earlier this month, noting that the state is monitoring the situation.
Some officials have proposed Saturday court sessions and night court sessions two or three nights a week, Mulroy said. They’ve considered having a clinic where people facing misdemeanor warrants could surrender, to help clear those up.
Mulroy’s office also is reevaluating whether detention is necessary for people jailed in hundreds of low-level cases.
“If there’s no basis to think they’re a danger to the community or a flight risk, and they’re in there just because they can’t afford their bail, we can take a second look,” he wrote.
Task force says it’s being effective Ryan Guay, a U.S. Marshals Service and task force spokesperson, told The Associated Press that the high volume of arrests reflects the force’s effectiveness.
“We recognize that this success places additional demands on the broader criminal justice system, including courts and detention facilities,” Guay said.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has said that it is making a satellite prison camp available to the task force. The bureau said the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office would assume oversight of the facility. A sheriff’s office spokesperson declined to comment on the camp’s location, citing operational security.
Associated Press reporter Christopher L. Keller in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed.
The Whitehaven community kicked off the holiday season with its 29th Annual Christmas Parade featuring bands, floats and community groups and leaders on Saturday, Nov. 17. This year’s theme was Celebrating the Gifts of Memphis..
Presented by The Academy of Youth Empowerment, the parade snaked down Elvis Presley Boulevard from Shelby Drive to Laudeen Drive.
LeMoyne Owen College President Christopher B. Davis served as grand marshal, while Bev Johnson, Stan Bell and the 1070 WDIA crew broadcast the parade.
Children lined the route with hopes of catching candy and treats tossed from passing floats and parade participants, including members of the Memphis Police Department. Even Chief CJ Davis got into the
spirit by performing a few dance moves along the way.
Tennessee National Guardsmen marched in the procession as other members of Memphis Safe Task Force patrolled the area.
Highlights of the parade included performances by the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Whitehaven High School marching bands and young members of T.C. Williams Academy of Dance, dressed in pink dresses with black and white polka dots.
And, of course, the “Mayor of Whitehaven” Hazel Moore, dressed in red, brought greetings from the stage, accompanied by anti-violence crusader Stevie Moore.
Serving as Mr. and Mrs. Claus (don’t tell the kids) were Pastor Larry and Pearlie Davis.
Fredrick McWilliams is the parade’s executive producer.
By Judith Black Moore TSD Contributing writer
Literacy Mid-South hosted a soldout crowd at its 2nd Annual Leading in Literacy Luncheon & Awards on Friday, Nov. 14 at the Hilton Memphis, honoring local and national leaders advancing literacy and educational equity across the Mid-South.
With the theme “From Literacy to Liberation: Reclaiming the Power of Reading in Our Community,” this year’s luncheon centered on literacy as a pathway to empowerment, civic participation and opportunity. The event brought together more than 500 supporters, educators and advocates committed to strengthening literacy outcomes from early childhood through adulthood.
The program featured Erica Armstrong Dunbar, nationally renowned historian, author and co-executive producer of HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” the 1880s drama about wealth, ambition and shifting power. Armstrong Dunbar, the National Leading in Literacy Honoree, was joined on stage by Gloria Ladson-Billings, Ph.D., a celebrated scholar in education equity who served as Thought Partner, and Charles McKinney, Ph.D., a Rhodes College historian who moderated the keynote conversation. Radio personality Stormy Taylor emceed the event.
Local recognition went to International Paper, named the 2025 Local Leading in Literacy Honoree for its longstanding corporate commitment to expanding literacy access, promoting book equity and supporting education through
“The strength of our city lies in how we work together. When we unite as partners in this work, we do more than promote literacy — we build pathways for equity, economic stability and the future of our children.”
— Jeanette O’Bryant
philanthropy and volunteerism.
“Literacy is more than reading — it is the foundation for liberation, opportunity and community sustainability,” said Ameshica Linsey, Ph.D., CEO of Literacy Mid-South. “We are proud to recognize those whose leadership and commitment continue to expand literacy access and equity for children and families across Memphis.”
Highlighting the organization’s col-
laborative approach, Jeanette O’Bryant, senior director of development and marketing at Literacy Mid-South, emphasized the collective power behind Memphis’ literacy movement.
“The strength of our city lies in how we work together. When we unite as partners in this work, we do more than promote literacy — we build pathways for equity, economic stability and the future of our children,” said O’Bryant.
Founded in 1974, Literacy MidSouth has evolved into one of the region’s most impactful literacy organizations, serving more than 165,000 children and adults annually through programs such as Tutor901, Adult Learning and Book Vending Machines. Its mission has stretched beyond assisting low-literacy adults to include family literacy, early-grade reading and community-wide collaboration — all rooted in the belief that literacy is a right, not a privilege.
The organization’s 50-year legacy is anchored by generations of volunteer tutors, educators and community partners — from a foreign missionary whose teaching method shaped early programming to the many people and organizations who have continued the work. Today, Literacy Mid-South serves as a convener for more than 30 literacy-focused partners across the region. For more information on Literacy Mid-South or to support its work, visit literacymidsouth.org.
By Bri Hatch Chalkbeat Tennessee
At Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ first school closure hearing, parents expressed concern about the students and teachers who could be displaced by the recommended shutdown of an elementary school at the end of this year.
District leaders said Wednesday, Nov. 19, that 11 teachers at Frayser-Corning Elementary could lose their jobs. But Jasmine Davis, a Frayser-Corning parent, said she hopes most of the staff can follow students to their new schools.
“My son, he gets close to his teachers,” Davis said. “I want him to be comfortable at the new school, not just going to new teachers over and over again.”
Some parents also questioned why Frayser-Corning Elementary, one of five primary schools in the Frayser neighborhood, is recommended to close. Superintendent Roderick Richmond also included Georgian Hills Elementary on his proposed list of school shutdowns in September, citing underenrollment and high facilities costs.
During Wednesday’s meeting, MSCS leaders echoed those reasons while emphasizing that no action has been decided yet.
“This is just a proposal,” said board member Stephanie Love, whose children went to Frayser-Corning years ago. “We want to hear from you as employees, as parents and you as students. We want to hear from the most important people.”
The MSCS board is expected to vote on Richmond’s suggested closures in February, after holding two community meetings for each of the five schools on the list. That includes reviewing Richmond’s plans for rezoning over 1,000
affected students, who will mostly attend nearby schools that have vacant seats.
Frayser-Corning students could be rezoned to Whitney or Westside elementary schools, which struggle with chronic underenrollment. But Monique Pollion, whose son is in Frayser-Corning’s pre-K program, said she’s wary of switching buildings.
“I went here most of childhood and I like the school; I like the neighborhood where the school sits,” she said. “I don’t know anything about Westside, and I
don’t know anything about Whitney. I prefer him to stay here.”
Closing Frayser-Corning would save the district over $1 million in 202627 alone. Whitney and Westside also scored higher on MSCS’ report card for academics last year, earning C’s, while Frayser-Corning earned an F.
“Both the academic performance and the facility conditions are better at Westside and Whitney,” said Regional Superintendent Deborah Fox-Stanford. “Combining the students and resources
of the two schools … will create more opportunities for our students.”
MSCS is hosting another community meeting for Frayser-Corning parents at Westside Elementary School on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m.
Bri Hatch covers Memphis-Shelby County Schools for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Reach Bri at bhatch@chalkbeat.org
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By Terri Schlichenmeyer
“Stayin’ Alive.”
That’s the BeeGees song to remember, the song with the perfect cadence for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Each beat is a pump; each pump, a lifesaving action, which is handy information to know, if you ever need it. So now read “Genius Unbroken” by Craig A. Miller, M.D., with Charlene Drew Jarvis, Ph.D., and meet the man whose legacy takes over when CPR isn’t enough.
Almost from the moment he could walk, Charles Richard “Charlie” Drew was an active boy.
Growing up in Washington D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, an area that was more equal than most in the early 1900s, gave him the opportunity to explore his surroundings — to get a good education, to learn to swim and to excel at athletics.
Sports and music were his passions then. But when his younger sister, Elsie, died, and he incidentally learned while attending Amherst College that he enjoyed the study of biology, Charlie decided to be a doctor.
Sadly, there was no money for medical school. Still, he applied to Howard University School of Medicine, which turned him down. He went to work at Morgan College in Baltimore as a teacher before heading to Quebec, where he received a fellowship at McGill University to study medicine. He entered Howard in early 1935, for his residency.
In 1938, he was invited to Colum-
bia University, to work as a fellow in surgery.
Eagerly, he took on extra projects, one of which was the nature of shock, a condition that could lead to circulatory failure and death. Laboratories everywhere “were dedicated to studying the phenomenon in all its… physiologic complexity.” World War II was raging. Banked blood would save a lot of lives, and Charlie set to work figuring out how to do it. But one of the questions was “whether to accept blood donated by African Americans” — like him. How many times have you been warned not to judge a book by its cover? Probably a lot, and don’t do it here. The cover of “Genius Unbroken” isn’t colorful or splashy, yet this may be one of the more interesting books you read this fall. But it does have its bumps.
Authors Miller and Drew Jarvis belabor Charles Drew’s athletic expertise, and the tales of those exploits melt together in their similarities. It may be a safe bet that readers who pick up this book will want the story of Drew’s accomplishments in medicine, instead of a litany of sports tales.
Fortunately, the rest of Drew’s life story and that of his career and his activism eventually become front-andcenter here, and then you’ll be riveted. It helps that the authors are careful to explain the medical parts of the story in layman’s terms, making this a book you ultimately won’t want to put down.
That “Genius Unbroken” becomes a lively biography is a nice surprise that will appeal to true medicine readers or Black history fans. Look for it, and you’ll know who to thank when you’re stayin’ alive.
$29.95
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By Lauren Burke Black Press USA
The six-decade career of legendary artist Jimmy Cliff, who was born in the Somerton District of Jamaica, was one of the most influential in reggae history and a global ambassador for Jamaican culture. Cliff was raised in a rural farming community and began writing songs as a child. His family moved to Kingston as a teenager to pursue his music. What followed over the next thirty years was legendary.
Cliff’s wife, Latifa Chambers, wrote on Instagram in the early morning hours of November 24 that, “It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia. I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow artists, and coworkers who have shared his journey with him. To all his fans around the world, please know that your support was his strength throughout his whole career. He really appreciated each and every fan for their love.” She then thanked Cliff’s doctors and medical staff.
Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley shared a parallel rise within Jamaica’s dynamic 1960s music scene, each shaping the emerging sound of reggae while carving distinct artistic identities. The two maintained a relationship marked by mutual respect and an understanding of each other’s cultural impact. Cliff, who achieved international recognition earlier, particularly through “The Harder They Come,” helped open global doors that Marley would later rocket through as he became the reggae genre’s most iconic figure.
Marley would, in turn, push the music’s political aspects to new heights, which Cliff openly admired. Their relationship was defined less by collaboration and more by a shared mission: Elevating Jamaican music onto the world stage and using it as a vehicle for storytelling, struggle, and liberation.
Jimmy Cliff achieved his breakthrough moments with a series of socially conscious songs in the 1960s. They included “Many Rivers to Cross,” “You Can Get It If You Really Want,” and “The Harder They Come.” The latter song became part of a movie soundtrack that would introduce reggae to international audiences and build Cliff’s image as a pioneer of the genre. Cliff would become second only to Bob Marley in shaping reggae’s global reach.
Over the decades, Cliff continued to change musically and fuse reggae with rock, pop and world music influences. But he always maintained sharp political and emotional clarity in his songwriting. Cliff’s musical collaborations included work with the Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello and Annie Lennox.
Cliff’s contributions earned him induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, making him one of the few reggae artists to be inducted into the Hall.
Known for his charismatic stage presence and unwavering commitment to political messages of resilience, Jimmy Cliff will remain an enduring icon whose music has spoken across generations from Jamaica and beyond.
Jimmy Cliff is survived by his children, Lilty Cliff, Aken Cliff, and Nabiyah Be.
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