by Susan Adler Thorp (RSS) Politics and Government | March 12th, 2012 3:00pm CDT | Comments Off
The old proverb, the more things change, the more they stay the same, surely holds true today when it comes to the municipal vs. suburban struggle to consolidate the city and county school systems, not to mention the race among suburban mayors to lead their people into their ‘own’ school systems. That thought came to [...]
by Susan Adler Thorp (RSS) Uncategorized | January 7th, 2010 10:05pm CDT | 1 Comment
In our race to embrace the future, to figure out how we can encourage the young creative class to settle here and make Memphis a better place to live, often we forget to stop for a moment and appreciate some of the folks who already have spent a lifetime trying to make Memphis the kind [...]
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.
