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Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the seven cities to achieve 2019 What Works Cities Certification, a national standard of excellence in city governance.

Downtown Memphis is the place to be for Tennessee whiskey lovers this weekend – and that’s official Tennessee whiskey as well as other kinds of whiskey made in the state. We have a big birthday, so the Tennessee Whiskey Trail is coming to us.

Each spring, more than 75,000 people descend on Memphis for the World Championship of Barbecue. We scoured the Grind City to find the most authentic barbecue joints you can sample during the event.

A disease made well-known by John Travolta and a 1976 TV movie has been cured in Memphis.

One of the campaigns for Southern Equality’s central programs is the Southern Equality Fund, through which they provide funding and training to Southern LGBTQ folks doing heroic organizing in their hometowns.

The biggest adaptive reuse initiative in Tennessee and the largest LEED Platinum Certified historic adaptive reuse project in the world, the $210 million complex was nearly a decade in the making.

Based in Memphis, Tennessee, the Old Dominick Distillery is a 50,000 square-foot set of historic industrial buildings that have been restored as a spirits distillery.

The Memphis & Shelby County Regional Economic Alliance met publicly for the first time and agreed on priorities for job growth, ranging from transportation and logistics to the music industry.

Memphis' innovation leaders are carefully building inclusion, community, and civic responsibility into their entrepreneurial ecosystem. San Francisco, New York, and Boston—take note

Here is a list of some cities around the country where black people are young, educated, and thriving.