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For the second time in as many attempts, Shelby County Commissioners failed to render a verdict on an $18 million settlement between the Mayor Lee Harris and the Shelby County Sheriff’s department during their Monday, June 1 meeting. On May 18, the mayor’s financial team presented the settlement to commissioners, after Bonner successfully sued the […]

NEW YORK — Peabo Bryson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning R&B singer known as the voice behind the Oscar-winning Disney film duets “Beauty and the Beast” with Celine Dion and “A Whole New World” with Regina Belle from “Aladdin,” has died. He was 75. His family said in a statement that Bryson died Tuesday evening, June […]

Starlito and Bandplay brought their Not The Country You Know Tour to Minglewood Hall on Friday night, May 29, delivering a performance that highlighted the chemistry between one of Tennessee’s most respected lyricists and one of the state’s most accomplished producers. The Memphis stop of the tour celebrated the duo’s latest collaborative project while revisiting […]

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump came to First Baptist Church-Broad on Sunday, May 31, as a bestselling novelist. But before long, the afternoon conversation about his new legal thriller, “Worse Than a Lie,” had become something more familiar to those who have followed Crump’s career: part testimony, part legal education, part call to courage. Crump, […]

The Tri-State Defender is set to host its next TSD in the Community Forum focusing on government and policy on Wednesday, June 3, 6 – 7:30 p.m. The forum will return to where the series first began a little more than a year ago at Southbrook Town Center, located at 1254 East Shelby Drive. Admission […]