Wednesday, September 22 2010 4:08 PM EDT2010-09-22 21:08:37 GMT
At Brinkley Heights Urban Academy, children learn computer skills in a cutting edge classroom. But the school on Rosamond Avenue is far from a high price prep school.More >>
Wednesday, September 8 2010 3:57 PM EDT2010-09-08 20:57:17 GMT
There is a little more than a year left in the Memphis and Shelby County Crime Commission's efforts to make Memphis one of the safest places to live by the end of 2011.More >>
Wednesday, July 28 2010 2:08 PM EDT2010-07-28 19:08:24 GMT
Memphis College of Art has artfully dodged the recession and raised millions for expansion. The art school has outgrown its main campus in Overton Park and is truly taking back our neighborhoods not only in Midtown but Downtown as well.More >>
Wednesday, July 14 2010 4:45 PM EDT2010-07-14 21:45:31 GMT
Retiring criminal court judge John Colton Jr. said churches need to play a greater role in reducing crime in local neighborhoods. He said his faith helps him prepare for court each day.More >>
Wednesday, July 7 2010 3:54 PM EDT2010-07-07 20:54:53 GMT
Over 80 percent of Memphis City School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. So what happens at meal time when those children are out of school?More >>
Wednesday, June 9 2010 4:56 PM EDT2010-06-09 21:56:56 GMT
In your day to day life, one place you can be extremely vulnerable to attack is in a parking lot, where your hands are often full, and you can be distracted.More >>
Thursday, June 3 2010 10:29 PM EDT2010-06-04 03:29:26 GMT
For the past decade, members of Bloomfield Baptist Church's Urban Ministry have stocked the lake at Martin Luther King Park off South Parkway with thousands of fish, and invited hundred of youngster to come out and catch them.More >>
Wednesday, June 2 2010 7:08 PM EDT2010-06-03 00:08:31 GMT
A recent graduate of Oakhaven High School is living his dream of becoming a wrestler while also helping his peers settle their disputes peacefully.More >>
Wednesday, May 12 2010 12:01 PM EDT2010-05-12 17:01:54 GMT
Distribution is the lifeblood of the Memphis economy. The city, known as "America's Distribution Center," is the home of FedEx, 300 trucking companies, a large river port, and a major railroad hub. Cargo thieves have taken note of all that freight traffic, and a task force is now working to fight cargo crime to protect our economy.More >>
Wednesday, April 28 2010 7:56 PM EDT2010-04-29 00:56:51 GMT
By Ursula Madden - bio | emailMEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - For nearly three years, the Heal the Hood foundation has been giving teens in Memphis a chance to showcase their talents through music, dance, and nowMore >>
Wednesday, April 7 2010 6:30 PM EDT2010-04-07 23:30:07 GMT
Just as Forbes declared Memphis one of America's "most miserable cities," a group of University of Memphis began plotting a response quite to the contrary!More >>
Wednesday, March 24 2010 11:00 PM EDT2010-03-25 03:00:28 GMT
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the good people trapped in an area of North Memphis infested with gangs and gunfire are desperate to Take Back Their Neighborhood.More >>
Thursday, March 4 2010 6:04 PM EST2010-03-04 23:04:49 GMT
In 1998, domestic violence reshaped the Reverend Rosalyn Nichols' life. Her childhood friend, Rosemari Pleasure was shot to death by her boyfriend.More >>
Wednesday, February 17 2010 6:37 PM EST2010-02-17 23:37:40 GMT
Children who live in the many apartment complexes along Sycamore View between I-40 and Bartlett now have a place they want to go after school. It's the newest local Boys and Girls Club, but unlike any other in Memphis, this one is located inside a church.More >>
Thursday, February 11 2010 3:25 PM EST2010-02-11 20:25:56 GMT
Fifteen initiatives are part of a five year plan laid out by the Memphis and Shelby County Crime Commission's strategy team - Operation: Safe Community.More >>
Wednesday, January 27 2010 2:23 PM EST2010-01-27 19:23:45 GMT
From behind bars, some Shelby County inmates are fighting for a second chance at citizenship. Men and women are participating in county sponsored programs to learn life skills for use once they're on the outside, and a new non-profit organization is trying to help.More >>
Wednesday, January 20 2010 6:08 PM EST2010-01-20 23:08:14 GMT
Some Memphians are reaching their goal of home ownership through The RISE Foundation's 'Save Up' program, a six week course in money management.More >>
Wednesday, December 16 2009 4:22 PM EST2009-12-16 21:22:34 GMT
An after-school program for needy children celebrates the spirit of giving all year long. The First Works program aims to help children from some of Memphis' poorest zip codes north of downtown.More >>
Thursday, December 3 2009 4:31 PM EST2009-12-03 21:31:24 GMT
A warning tonight from police in the Mid-South: Santa isn't the only one watching - crooks are watching you, too. But you can fight off the grinches and take back your neighborhood.More >>
Wednesday, December 2 2009 11:21 PM EST2009-12-03 04:21:16 GMT
Memphis police respond to more home and car break-ins than any other crime in the city, and the items most often stolen are guns. Whether you buy them for your private collection, or for your protection, keeping weapons out of the wrong hands seems to be a challenge for gun owners and for Memphis police.More >>
Wednesday, November 11 2009 3:59 PM EST2009-11-11 20:59:16 GMT
Alex Bolar, the Frayser teen shot and killed in a city park earlier this month was a latch key kid, according to his father. Ironically, just a little more than 100 yards away from the place where Alex died, Frayser's Youth Visions welcomes latch key kids every school day.More >>
Wednesday, November 4 2009 11:00 PM EST2009-11-05 04:00:23 GMT
In the air over South Memphis and on the ground in Frayser, Action News 5 was recently along for the ride as the Memphis Police Department cracked down on crime. For police, crime fighting is a numbers game, where the department's Blue CRUSH strategy pinpoints possible crimes down to the exact date and time.More >>
Wednesday, October 28 2009 4:58 PM EDT2009-10-28 20:58:27 GMT
One Memphis neighborhood stays scary all year long - not just the week of Halloween. It's the ghost town of Midtown, but it could become a shopping mecca complete with big box retailers.More >>
Wednesday, October 21 2009 5:51 PM EDT2009-10-21 22:51:50 GMT
Downtown Memphis will become home to a new college campus as soon as next year, and your church's music minister might become a future graduate. Visible School, a music and worship arts college, plans to move into a vacant architectural gem at 200 Madison Avenue. More >>
Wednesday, September 30 2009 6:30 PM EDT2009-09-30 23:30:42 GMT
A mural project brightens up Union at Cleveland. The building owner found the 30 by 20 foot paintings through the Center for Southern Folklore. It's outdoor art people enjoy, a far cry from the jumble of alphabet soup that colors the walls of the old Anderton's Restaurant.More >>
Wednesday, September 9 2009 5:35 PM EDT2009-09-09 22:35:07 GMT
The weeds are so high on one South Memphis street they've become a traffic hazard, not to mention a breeding ground for vermin - both of the rodent and criminal variety!More >>
Wednesday, August 19 2009 4:57 PM EDT2009-08-19 21:57:23 GMT
For the past two years, an inmate re-entry program called the 3R Project has helped some 200-inmates learn skills to help them find work after they get out of jail.More >>
Wednesday, August 12 2009 4:23 PM EDT2009-08-12 21:23:56 GMT
Scrap metal, bricks and bulldozers have hit the ground at Southern and Brister in Memphis, ripping down the old, abandoned Lynn Doyle Flowers building.More >>
Thursday, August 6 2009 8:00 AM EDT2009-08-06 13:00:21 GMT
We went to Krav Maga instructor Patrick Terry for a crash course in self defense for children. Terry will be the first to tell you: it's okay to fight dirty.More >>
Wednesday, July 8 2009 4:56 PM EDT2009-07-08 21:56:42 GMT
A gigantic gift is Memphis bound, thanks to McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc. The Kroc Center is a futuristic, state of the addition, is coming soon to the heart of Memphis.More >>
Wednesday, July 1 2009 5:58 PM EDT2009-07-01 22:58:56 GMT
His ministry is called Sober House, but Pastor Larry Hunter is filling more than just the needs of people suffering from addiction with his new tool in the fight against crime.More >>
Wednesday, June 24 2009 3:17 PM EDT2009-06-24 20:17:35 GMT
Keeping criminals from becoming repeat offenders can help take back our neighborhoods. It's a strategy adopted by Shelby County government through a prison reentry program called the 3R project. More >>
Thursday, June 18 2009 2:02 PM EDT2009-06-18 19:02:00 GMT
A Mid-South non-profit that helps small business owners thrive in struggling communities is reaching out to the next generation of entrepreneurs to Take Back Our Neighborhoods. More >>
Wednesday, June 3 2009 7:14 PM EDT2009-06-04 00:14:34 GMT
To reach the estimated 100,000 at-risk Memphis kids between ages six and eighteen, plans are being discussed with superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash to place new Boys and Girls Clubs inside Memphis City Schools.More >>
Wednesday, May 27 2009 5:41 PM EDT2009-05-27 22:41:58 GMT
Nothing gets a kid's attention like a good beat, but a beat with a message is the mission for entertainers who make up the "Heal the Hood Foundation."More >>
Wednesday, May 20 2009 4:18 PM EDT2009-05-20 21:18:07 GMT
Alcy Elementary is home to the Memphis chapter of the U.S. Dream Academy, which is now in ten cities nationwide. Its main focus is helping children who have a parent behind bars. More >>
Wednesday, April 15 2009 9:41 PM EDT2009-04-16 02:41:15 GMT
School drop-outs may soon drop-in if they get locked up at Juvenile Court. Preparations are now underway to create a school inside the juvenile detention facility in downtown Memphis.More >>
Wednesday, April 1 2009 6:14 PM EDT2009-04-01 23:14:29 GMT
Memphis City Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash has a radical plan to Take Back Our Neighborhoods - a plan that would help transitional students, who move at least once during the school year.More >>
Every time a child changes schools in the middle of the school year, they end up six months behind in their studies. Now consider that one in three Memphis City School students changes school each school year. They're called transitional students, and as many as 1,700 of them are homeless. More >>
Wednesday, February 25 2009 8:34 PM EST2009-02-26 01:34:04 GMT
John Maclin proves that good samaritans sometimes really are men of steel. A single working mother says the owner of Maclin Security Doors came to her rescue after she'd been burglarized twice. More >>
Wednesday, February 4 2009 10:12 PM EST2009-02-05 03:12:28 GMT
When Hurricane Katrina forced Andrew McGill to move, he settled in a Midtown historic district, the type of neighborhood where he thought he'd feel comfortable. The surrounding blight is now making him very uncomfortable. More >>
Wednesday, January 28 2009 12:38 PM EST2009-01-28 17:38:56 GMT
Drug addicts, ex-offenders, battered wives and needy children have a new place to turn for help in Westwood. A new non-profit agency called Trinity Community Coalition Outreach has a big vision for Taking Back (and feeding) Our Neighborhoods.More >>
Sunday, January 25 2009 11:54 PM EST2009-01-26 04:54:38 GMT
Following a recent rash of armed robberies, Col. Billy Garrett spoke candidly to residents of the Vollintine-Evergreen district about what they can do to take back their neighborhood. More >>
Wednesday, January 14 2009 5:09 PM EST2009-01-14 22:09:42 GMT
Power tools are the hallmark of a work in progress, and at the lot near the intersection of Lauderdale and Mississippi recently, a clean-up crew consisting of Shelby County inmates was hard at work. More >>
Wednesday, December 17 2008 4:38 PM EST2008-12-17 21:38:09 GMT
Recently, we told you how the Shelby County Commission wants to fight predatory lenders. Now, a south Memphis woman victimized by predatory lending is sharing her story.More >>
Tuesday, December 9 2008 5:41 PM EST2008-12-09 22:41:18 GMT
The nation's bank wanted to see what this tough economy is doing to the crime rate. So, the Federal Reserve studied 23 cities, including Memphis, gathering information it then shared with local business owners and law enforcement.More >>
Thursday, December 4 2008 9:19 AM EST2008-12-04 14:19:54 GMT
Thomas Sanders of Raleigh's Carver Heights neighborhood is determined not to let crime run him out of the home he loves, where generations of his family have lived.More >>
Wednesday, November 12 2008 4:04 PM EST2008-11-12 21:04:52 GMT
You've seen the stories about children committing serious crimes. If the offenders are too young to serve their time at the Shelby County Jail. they go to the Juvenile Detention Center. For the first time, I got an unprecedented tour inside - and interviews with the children serving time. More >>
Wednesday, November 5 2008 9:28 PM EST2008-11-06 02:28:17 GMT
The foreclosure crisis threatens entire neighborhoods. When four or five houses on the same block flip from single family home owners to renters, all too often a downward spiral ensues.More >>
Wednesday, October 22 2008 9:09 PM EDT2008-10-23 02:09:20 GMT
Jobs are harder to come by these days, especially for ex-cons looking for work. One Memphis program is Taking Back Our Neighborhoods by helping the jobless find a path to the working world.More >>
Monday, October 20 2008 2:14 PM EDT2008-10-20 19:14:13 GMT
As Newark's mayor, Cory Booker lived out of a trailer in one of his city's most drug-infested neighborhoods. He shared his story Friday with Memphis leaders. More >>
Wednesday, October 8 2008 4:01 PM EDT2008-10-08 21:01:55 GMT
Many Mid-South churches send members on on mission trips every year. But did you know that churches around America send members on missions to Memphis? These generous visitors give their time and elbow grease to help in Taking Back Our Neighborhoods! More >>
Thursday, October 2 2008 7:34 AM EDT2008-10-02 12:34:52 GMT
Shutting down suspected crack dealers in one Memphis neighborhood has become more difficult. Police said the drug slingers operate 24-7 directly next door to a church and across Boston Street from a child enrichment center.More >>
Wednesday, September 10 2008 4:14 PM EDT2008-09-10 21:14:42 GMT
Anyone can help unify and protect whole neighborhoods - even a man without a home address. A recent street-side birthday bash for an 80-year-old south Memphis man had people celebrating and Taking Back Our Neighborhoods!More >>
Sunday, August 24 2008 8:21 PM EDT2008-08-25 01:21:59 GMT
Saturday was no ordinary day for the Riverview Middle School football team. Players spent the day sweeping, raking, and dumping trash in a new effort to crush blight in Memphis.More >>
Wednesday, August 13 2008 6:28 PM EDT2008-08-13 23:28:54 GMT
A law aimed at reducing blight in Tennessee was put to the test in state court and it is helping one woman take back her neighborhood, one house at a time.More >>
Wednesday, August 6 2008 6:27 PM EDT2008-08-06 23:27:02 GMT
Six people were killed, four adults and two children, in the tragedy on Lester Street. Three children survived. The brutal crime affected the entire city, especially the Binghampton community. Now the Memphis City Council wants answers and is demanding change.More >>
Wednesday, July 30 2008 4:32 PM EDT2008-07-30 21:32:37 GMT
A Memphis group is going door to door to make the Taking Back Our Neighborhoods message a reality, hoping to put the Binghamton community on the right track by selling a message of faith.More >>
An apartment owner wants to kick crime out of his complex, and that could include the family of a 6-year-old girl who was shot by her 5-year old brother.More >>
Wednesday, July 9 2008 9:12 PM EDT2008-07-10 02:12:02 GMT
One of the biggest names in Memphis towing has powerful trucks that can pull airplanes, tugboats and even fish your car out of the river. But the wrecker service can't seem to put a hook on the hookers infesting their south Memphis neighborhood. More >>
Wednesday, June 18 2008 5:06 PM EDT2008-06-18 22:06:39 GMT
They grew up in gangs. Living and dying on Memphis streets. Now, a Memphis youth counselor is reaching out to those at-risk kids through music and movies. It is his way of taking back his neighborhood.More >>
Wednesday, June 11 2008 8:04 PM EDT2008-06-12 01:04:26 GMT
Broken windows. Weeds so tall they almost hide a house. Grass so high you cannot see all the stuff illegally dumped. All problems the neighbors on Orchi Street are tired of seeing.More >>
Mid-South lawyers and business leaders are taking back their neighborhoods this summer by providing 100 high school students with a summer law internship.More >>
Northaven has had a rough month of May. A star high school athlete was shot and wounded after a playground argument in the North Shelby County community. More >>
Wednesday, May 21 2008 6:58 PM EDT2008-05-21 23:58:51 GMT
In a neighborhood in north Memphis, near Hollywood and Chelsea, a block exists where residents say drug dealers and hookers operate out of abandoned houses. On a recent photo shoot for Taking Back Our Neighborhoods, while seeking to expose the illicit activity in the neighborhood, we found an oasis of care and learning with incredible promise. More >>
We've made many visits to Lester Street since the killing spree that left a half dozen people dead nearly two months ago. But the seeds for another brand of trouble were planted on Lester years ago. More >>
A Memphis grandmother is giving new meaning to "Taking Back Our Neighborhoods." She has singlehandedly created a summer camp for neighborhood children and has persevered in spite of her health.More >>
A Binghamton based ministry is striving to build urban leaders who will change their community from the inside out. Eikon Ministries uses sports and pizza to get the attention of youngsters and to Take Back Our Neighborhoods.More >>
A Midtown flower shop owner is growing a whole lot more than petunias. They are raising children inside Rachel's Flower Shop and taking back our neighborhoods in Binghamton.More >>
The Lester Street Massacre happened on the outskirts of Binghamton. Ironically, Binghamton has tried mightily to re-invent itself with neighborly love. More >>
You can find dozens of boarded up homes in Belt Line, the neighborhood bounded by the fairgrounds, Orange Mound as well as Chickasaw Gardens and the Memphis Country Club.More >>
Is there an abandoned house on your block you'd like to see demolished? There's a new way to truly do something about it thanks to the U of M and the city. More >>
A Frayser couple said they are fed up with burglars, trespassers, and pot heads. They are uniting with neighbors and connecting with police thanks to a new web link.More >>
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