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The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
In 2017, Thomas founded MLK50: Justice Through Journalism to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. [5] In 2020, Thomas won the Selden Ring Award and the Gerald Loeb Award for local reporting for her reporting on predatory health care practices in Memphis.
Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933 Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [ 6 ] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
In John Grisham's novel The Client, the Memphis Press is fictionally presented as still existing and flourishing as a major Memphis paper into the 1990s.. In the 2004 movie The Ladykillers, during the basement scene where Tom Hanks's character Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr describes forming the crew for the heist, he references having posted an ad in the Memphis Scimitar, which the ...
Clara Arena Brawner (August 29, 1929 – October 4, 1991) was the only African-American woman physician in Memphis, Tennessee, in the mid-1950s. [ 1 ] Early life
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William L. Jenkins, U.S. House of Representatives (R-TN-01) (1997–2007) John Jerry, football player; Peria Jerry, football player; Michael Jeter, actor; Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (1865–1869) Thomas Johnson, football player; Cave Johnson, politician and U.S. Postmaster General (1865–1869)
Memphis Commercial Appeal, Tennessee 1968: Jerry Bledsoe: Greensboro Daily News, North Carolina 1969: Kent Pollock: The Palm Beach Post, Florida 1970: Jerry Bledsoe: Greensboro Daily News, North Carolina 1971: Clettus Atkinson: Birmingham Post-Herald, Alabama 1972: Bill Stokes: The Milwaukee Journal: 1973: Jim Wooten [19] The Philadelphia ...