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Logan Young (1940–2006) was a Memphis, Tennessee businessman and a booster for the University of Alabama football program.In 2005, Young was found guilty in federal court for charges relating to his role in a scheme to pay a high school football coach $150,000 to help recruit a player to Alabama.
Stanley Booth (January 5, 1942 – December 19, 2024) was an American music journalist based in Memphis, Tennessee.Characterized by Richie Unterberger as a "fine, if not extremely prolific, writer who generally speaking specializes in portraits of roots musicians, most of whom did their best work in the '60s and '50s," Booth wrote extensively about Keith Richards, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin ...
The journalism community is mourning the death of Memphis journalist Amanda Hanson. She was 38 years old. Hanson, a journalist and the Leader of Digital Innovation with Action News 5, died on ...
Larry Riley (June 20, 1952 – June 6, 1992) was an American actor and musician, best known for his role as C.J. Memphis in the film A Soldier's Story (1984) and as Frank Williams in the prime-time TV soap opera Knots Landing.
There was a five-hour wake the day before the funeral on April 1, 1968. [8] Six hundred attended his funeral at Clayborn Temple on April 2, 1968. [9] Striking sanitation workers, clergy members who supported the strike, and national television representatives were all in attendance, as well as the students and faculty of Mitchell Road High School where Payne was enrolled prior to his death.
George Poteet (February 22, 1948 – July 16, 2024 [1]) was an American Memphis-based [2] [3] land speed racer and winner of the 1996 Ridler Award. Poteet's 1937 Ford roadster (built by Don Pilkenton) [4] won the 1996 Ridler Award. [5] [6] [7] This car would go on to take "America's Most Beautiful Roadster", top prize at the Oakland Roadster ...
Lewis' sons Clarence Lewis and Robert Lewis Jr. took over the family business. Robert Lewis Jr. became a business leader in Memphis, and was noted for his efforts at establishing T. O. Fuller State Park. Other noted achievements include advocating for the hiring of the first African-American firefighters in Memphis in 1955, being the first ...
McRae was born in Memphis, Tennessee. ... Death. On April 29, 2021, McRae died from a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 80. [5]