Warren Lewis uses fire to cut hair in his north Memphis barbershop. He got the idea from his experience of burning the feathers off of chickens that were being prepared for supper when he was a child. Michael Nevels who has known the barber most of his life, watches his hair go ablaze.
Community police officers spend time with the neighborhood kids at the Ed Rice Community Center in Memphis, Tennessee. In a proactive effort to fight crime at its roots, police become mentors hoping to build relationships with children who live in their community.
Doris Roberts, 86, sang her rendition of Moonlight Bay accompanied by Herb Mitchum. Roberts is a resident of Appling Woods Health Care Center and Mitchum works there. The two competed in the Memphis Nursing Homes Got Talent Showcase sponsored by Tennessee Health Care Association.
Pastor Rickey Floyd walks the streets of Frayser in the early morning hours carrying a giant 40 lb. cross and as he prays for his Memphis, Tennessee neighborhood. When he arrives at what once was the thriving "gateway” to Frayser, he drops to his knees and prays for Frayser and the problems the community faces.
A clown prepares to perform in the circus.
Friends support each other in the home stretch of a marathon in Memphis.
A gentleman farmer holds one of his new baby chickens.
A Baptist preacher baptizes a young member of his church.
Eddie Grays pushes Kahlil Bingham, away from his home as a fire raged in a church next door. Memphis firefighters fought the early morning fire at Light of Glory International Church located at 714 North 7th.
Gesma Mohammed and Brigitte Schmidt became fast friends during a luncheon celebrating World Refugee Day at Catholic Charities in Memphis. Mohammed, who is taking naturalization classes at Catholic Charities is from Sudan, Schmidt is from Memphis.
Harold White waits to be rescued while trapped in a tree that fell on him as he cut it in Memphis, Tennessee. Rescue workers eventually freed him with a cherry picker. He sustained minor injuries.