January was a good month to be born. January 8th January 15th Two people, or Kings significantly changed not only Memphis and West Tennessee’s history, but the world’s. January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia.  A Baptist minister and civil rights activist, this man became the heart and soul of racial reform during the mid-1950s, by playing a pivotal role to end segregation throughout the US. “I have a dream that my four children will one…

70 years ago today, over 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France to fight and defend our country against Aldof Hitler’s Nazis.  June 6, 1944 will forever be known and remembered as D-Day, where over 9,000 soldiers’ lives were lost, but they will never be forgotten.  Today only a few remaining soldiers that stormed the beaches still survive to tell their story of Operation Overload.  However, in the little town of Halls, Tennessee, you will find a…