Memphis native, Wiley Henry, is an award-winning journalist and notable artist. Wiley has a Bachelor Degree in Advertising Design and Fine Art from the Memphis College of Art. He has been with the Tri-State Defender for over 20 years and has been with the paper longer than any staff member.He has received a number of awards from the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the Memphis Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Awards.
Wiley is a noted artist and has been commissioned to paint the portraits of entertainer Stevie Wonder, actor Clifton Davis (Amen), actor Willard Pugh (The Color Purple), Madame CJ Walker posthumous, civil rights activist Rev. Benjamin Hooks, and Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, just to name a few.
After President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and ended slavery, the news didn’t reach the slaves until Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, delivered it in 1865. ... the news is still being celebrated.
Dr. Isaac Richmond, national director of the Commission on Religion and Racism (CORR), said he plans to boycott the Downtown Shell and Subway at 464 N. Main and Auction streets for 381 days – the same number of days it took organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 to overturn the city’s racially segregated public transit system.
There once was a time Jerbethaqui (Beth) Strickland aspired to be a broadcast journalist. After learning the trade, she switched gears and decided to focus on her first love: fashion design.
The United States Postal Service – historically a dependable ladder into the middle class for African Americans – is experiencing an unprecedented decline in mail volume and revenue. As a result, thousands of postal workers nationwide are being laid off, reassigned to jobs that can be several hundred miles away or given the option to retire early.
Stephanie Williams’ eighth-grade performing arts class learned something about the vicissitudes of life after writing the lyrics to their latest CD and video, “Life Is Not Easy!”
Ta’Ron Sims loves football. He was a quarterback in high school and a walk on player for the University of Southern Mississippi football team in Hattiesburg, Miss.
The role of the black man and woman must be elevated in society and governed by black people, according to the Nation of Islam’s national spokesperson, Dr. Ava Muhammad.
Supt. Kriner Cash has been on the job for nine months. During that time, he has made – and proposed – some sweeping changes, which some hail as innovative and others see as a temporary fix.
Before faith-based became a government initiative, Bishop W. L. Porter was already making the idea work at Greater Community Temple Church of God in Christ. And long before churches spread across three locations, he was pastoring three churches in three cities.
