For residents of Orange Mound, the Kroger on Lamar Avenue offers access to prescription medication, banking services and healthy food. With Kroger set to close the store on February 3, the community rallies for reinvestment.
The City of Memphis annexed Whitehaven in 1969 but the community maintains a distinct identity founded on small business and home ownership.
As tax season nears, Impact America aims to provide free tax services in Memphis so that families can maximize their refunds and not fall prey to predatory tax preparers.
In advance of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 sanitation workers strike that drew Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis, city officials broke ground on the I AM A MAN Plaza to be located Downtown near Clayborn Temple.
Growing up in Binghampton, Xavier Winston said it seemed that everyone thought the only way to be successful in the neighborhood was to "get out" through a career in sports or music. Winston charts another path to improve his community through entrepreneurship.
For the past four months, the On The Ground team of High Ground News has worked alongside residents and stakeholders in Orange Mound as part of an embedded reporting engagement.
Though they all have their different methods, organizations like the Orange Mound CDC, JUICE, Explore Bike Share, ArtUp and more all have the common goal of investing in the community from within as much as possible by equipping residents with the tools they need for self-revitalization.
Orange Mound residents are gearing up for the holidays by organizing community dinners to feed the needy and collect toys for Christmas. Here are ways you can join their efforts this holiday season or year round.
Orange Mound was once a community of walkable amenities with sundry stores, movie theatres, and more sit-down restaurants. Over the past few decades, things have changed. And in recent years, bus service has become more infrequent.
From tiny football players and neighborhood candy ladies to ballerinas and local businesses, The Age of Osage is a photography show that illustrates the spirit of the Orange Mound community as captured by High Ground News photographers from August through November.
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