by Matt Timberlake (RSS) Uncategorized | May 18th, 2010 9:00am CDT | 1 Comment
On Saturday night, Memphis was stupid with music made through meaningful partnerships. At 7 p.m., musicians from around the world gathered at the Levitt Shell in Overton Park to celebrate the music of Big Star’s guitar-playing singer Alex Chilton, who died earlier this year. I didn’t go, but have heard that through the light-to-terrible weather, [...]
by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →
Photograph by Amie Vanderford
This ongoing series of photographs is intended to show the daily lives of these single mothers in order to invoke recognition of their similarities to all mothers, along with understanding and empathy from the viewer of the strengths that these single mothers possess within the challenging situations they face. My hope is that newfound empathy with these mothers’ lives will give people some pause before they condemn single mothers when discussing issues such as welfare and other politically charged hot buttons.
