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Fox13, BLDG Memphis, Bluff City Advisory Group, Burch, Porter & Johnson and the River Inn of Harbor Town announce new hires and promotions. 

Fox13, BLDG Memphis, Bluff City Advisory Group, Burch, Porter & Johnson and the River Inn of Harbor Town announce new hires and promotions. 

In this week’s To-Do List, John Legend is live at the Garden, a “Matrix” actor stars in a Hattiloo play and you can get a sneak peek at Stomping Grounds. 

New Ballet Ensemble names an artistic director. Also, moves were announced for the American Red Cross, South Point Grocery, First Horizon and more.

The show also highlights the movement’s Black activists and Memphians Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, who fought to keep questions of racial justice from being sidelined by white suffragists eager to appease Southern lawmakers.

Rhodes College adds a career-services center.

An engineering and architecture leader is honored by his alma mater in this week’s Movers & Shakers.

A local student won a $2,500 scholarship at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards in New York.

“Somebody who is doing shows in Memphis might work at three, four, five different theaters, so the people get to know each other, and it does lead to a lot of collaboration,” said Ned Canty, general director at Opera Memphis. 

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