Longtime nonprofit administrator Diane Duke recently took the helm of Friends for Life as its new executive director. In her new role, the Los Angeles native leads and oversees an organization that’s helping those affected by HIV/AIDS through the provision of education, housing, food, transportation and healthy life skills training.

2. Speaking Out - Thursday, March 8, 2012

For its 15th annual benefit luncheon Wednesday, March 7, the YWCA of Greater Memphis hosted its first ever male speaker – actor-turned-activist and best-selling author Victor Rivas Rivers – who traveled to the Bluff City to speak out against domestic violence.

3. Republicans Say New Consumer Bureau Too Powerful - Thursday, March 17, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans said Wednesday that a new government agency designed to protect consumers from problems with mortgages, credit cards and other lenders has too much power. They also criticized it for participating in a federal-state effort to force mortgage servicers to change the way they foreclose on troubled homeowners.

4. Abused Women's Program Helps Clients Operate in Legal Maze - Thursday, October 5, 2006

In November 2005, a Memphis woman was finally fed up with the constant abuse from her husband, who had violently attacked her repeatedly for three years.

"I decided I had enough, told him to leave," she said. "But I was scared of what to do."

5. Jones and Colleagues Receive LEED Accreditation from Green Building Council - Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Michael Grey Jones, Chris Root and Karen Cauthen have received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accreditation. Jones is an architect for Johnson Bailey Henderson NcNeel Architects, and Root and Cauthen are architectural interns. Created by the U.S. Green Building Council, the LEED Green Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.

6. Archived Article: Standout - Friday, January 24, 1997
By SUZANNE THOMPSON A balm for healing Former battered wife uses writing to help other victims cope By SUZANNE THOMPSON The Daily News She sits on her sofa, her face encircled by sunlight which floods the room from the window behind her. Her smile b...

7. Archived Article: Shelley Poem - Friday, January 24, 1997
Journey From Behind The Battered Mirror Journey From Behind The Battered Mirror By Elizabeth A. Shelley back here behind the battered mirror that reflects a face you beat into me is a void, no one there but a ghost who used to be where is substance ...

8. Archived Article: Bio Bits - Friday, January 24, 1997
Bio Bits Bio Bits name: Elizabeth Anne Shelley birth date: April 19, 1948 place of birth: Flint, Mich. education: B.A., education, University of Kentucky ...