Enter Willie Herenton. After playing a complementary role a year ago, the senior guard has thrived this year at taking some of the pressure off Smith on the offensive end. “Willie gives us that ...

Twice this summer, in front of hundreds of people, Willie Herenton, 10 years out of public office, acknowledged his own mortality and showcased his ambition. “This morning I prayed and said ...

Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton is getting back into real estate and has moved to South Memphis: "I downsized from a [seven-bedroom], 7,500-square-foot suburban home in Collierville to return ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Willie Herenton, the former Memphis mayor who has announced he’s running for the office again, is suing the city of Memphis, claiming city leader are actively trying to keep ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

Now you know what former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton thinks about his successor and outgoing mayor A C Wharton. In an interview on WREG’s Informed Sources, Herenton pulled no punches.

On a Tuesday night in Orange Mound, former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton sat at a kitchen bar counter, surrounded predominantly by millennials. He’d been invited to the home of Shelby County ...

Prior to reading off her prepared statements, Feagins acknowledged her father and former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton who were in the audience. She also said the most "painful" allegations were ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. — Mayor Willie Herenton stepped before television cameras to announce he had made a startling discovery: Rich white businessmen were plotting to derail his re-election by ...