Browse past news stories for Manassas High School in Memphis, TN.

• NC3 Investigates: City Owned Blight (WREG-TV Memphis)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 05:16:22 am
  Keli Rabon reports
• News in the Arts: Handy Awards honor Green for life's work (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 12:07:00 am
  Memphis jazz man Dr. Herman Green will be presented the Lifetime Music Achievement Award on Sunday at the 13th annual W.C. Handy Heritage Awards at the Holiday Inn Select near Memphis International Airport.In addition, Emerson Able, former music director for the Isaac Hayes Movement and retired Manassas High School band director, will receive the Music Legacy Award.Pioneering female disc jockey ...
• City’s Revitalization Plans Proceed (The Memphis Daily News)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 06:08:30 am
  The city of Memphis has signed a $1.1 million capital improvement agreement with the Memphis Housing Authority for the demolition and cleanup of prope....
• Signees help Lady Bears fill needs (The Springfield News-Leader)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 09:28:53 pm
  Missouri State women's basketball coach Nyla Milleson won't make any projections about how her new recruits will fit in, but at least one of her team's signees fills a big hole in the team's current roster.
• Chick Chat: Girls basketball fan focusing national attention on city (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 05:02:24 pm
  Hasina Muhammad will slam dunk the ball before the end of her high school basketball career, predicts Patosha Jeffery. Muhammad, a junior at Ridgeway High School, is just shy of 6 feet tall and a center on the Roadrunners team. She has already made several close attempts at a dunk, one of which Jeffery recorded and posted online. "Nowadays it's becoming a little more common to have women ...
• Brotherly love (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on October 26, 2009 at 06:02:53 pm
  Three years ago, Kenneth Carpenter of Whitehaven decided that he wanted to help in the fight against sickle cell disease. His good friend and fraternity brother, Trevor Thompson of Bartlett, lives with the disease and had experienced a lot of suffering in 2006 and was hospitalized for several weeks. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells. People with ...
• Smith, Louis (Edward) (Jazz.com)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 11:07:37 pm
  Trumpeter Louis Smith recorded a few high-profile hard bop sessions in the late 1950s, including two Blue Note LPs under his own leadership. Soon after, he chose a career in education over the precarious life of a full-time jazz musician.
• Addition by subtraction (The Daily Mississippian)
  posted on September 11, 2009 at 04:27:25 am
  Rebs to replace transfer White with newcomers
• NFL pioneer Burl Toler dead at 81 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on August 18, 2009 at 05:06:59 am
  As a first-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns, Burl Toler had aspirations of making his mark in the NFL.
• Teen Who Made News For School Shooting On Road To College (WREG-TV Memphis)
  posted on July 27, 2009 at 04:35:49 am
  Teen arrested for school shooting back on track and overcoming obstacles Teen arrested for school shooting back on track and overcoming obstacles
• Former Shooter Graduates with Honors (FOX 13 Memphis)
  posted on July 26, 2009 at 06:01:45 pm
  Markees Smith accidentally shot a friend with a gun he brought to school to sell outside Manassas High School in October of 2007. A year and a half later, Saturday Smith realized his own reality graduating with honors from his new high school Northside.
• Manassas student earns diploma after paying price for poor judgment (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on July 26, 2009 at 05:18:03 am
  The white cap and gown Markees Smith donned Saturday to receive his high school diploma were a stark contrast to the navy blue scrubs he wore for 152 days in lockup.
• Jimmie Lunceford added to Beale Street Walk of Fame (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on July 20, 2009 at 05:09:06 am
  Jazz aficionado Jack Schaffer laments that big-band leader Jimmie Lunceford is often overlooked on a scorecard of the style's greats.
• State's KNS Top 10 prospects: (No. 10) Manassas' Brown able to block academic concerns (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on July 6, 2009 at 05:21:16 pm
  O.C. Brown's football ability has rarely been questioned. His academics are another matter. Those close to the News Sentinel's 10th best prospect in the state began to grow worrisome during Brown's junior season at Manassas High School in Memphis. The concern was that Brown wouldn't be able to qualify academically to play college football.
• Prospect O.C. Brown able to block academic concerns (The Tennessean)
  posted on July 5, 2009 at 07:10:49 am
  O.C. Brown's football ability has rarely been questioned. His academics are another matter. Brown recently picked up scholarship offers from Arkansas State and Tennessee State.
• Beating the odds: Awards ceremony honors eight who overcame obstacles (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on May 12, 2009 at 05:14:29 am
  For Montgomery Dempsey, an immune suppression disorder has led to a lifetime of challenge and, this year, a Beat the Odds Award for him and seven others who overcame obstacles that might have caused some to give up.
• Bridges employee works toward making Memphis, residents successful (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on April 11, 2009 at 05:10:58 am
  It's the success of others that ultimately motivates Davida Cruthird.
• Manassas High Makes History (FOX 13 Memphis)
  posted on March 28, 2009 at 02:59:33 am
  Amid the thrills of the beginning of NCAA Tournament action, it might have been lost that two schools walked away with state basketball titles last week. But, all you had to do was enter a fever pitched auditorium at the Bluff City's Manassas High School to know what it felt like to be a winner.
• Manassas Wins Single A Title (WTVC Chattanooga)
  posted on March 21, 2009 at 11:13:42 pm
  Manassas High School out of Memphis was way too much for Tennessee Temple Saturday. The Tigers drubbed the Crusaders 60-34, winning the Tennessee Boys High School Single A Basketball Championship. The game was played at the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro.