NEWS & UPDATES

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Class of 2013 Valedictorian Stephani Brownlee launches the Brownlee Family Foundation
It wasn't enough that, despite a childhood full of challenges, Stephani Brownlee earned a full-tuition scholarship to Brown University, where she got her undergraduate degree. It wasn't enough that she got her first master's degree from Florida State University. It...

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Class of 2013 graduate Keosha Stewart tapped as new Stax Museum Education Manager
One of our Soulsville Charter School graduates, Keosha Stewart (class of 2013), has recently joined the Stax Museum of American Soul Music at its new Education Manager. Keosha attended Soulsville for six years before leaving us to attend Barnard College at Columbia...

MORE ALUMNI NEWS
Alumnus Andre Johnson III (2018) first-ever recipient of Theatre Memphis' Priscilla Presley Scholarship André Johnson III, TSCS Class of 2018 and a junior at the University of Memphis in the Department Theatre and Dance majoring in Theatre, has been tapped as the...

Soulsville Charter School Masters the Art of Music with December 2022 Winter Concerts
At the Soulsville Charter School, we feel music is as much an academic subject as it is anything else, which is why we offer so many classes in band, choir, and strings, and why we have won so many awards. If you've never seen a performance by The Soulsville Charter...

TSCS Music Department steps it up with Monday Music Minutes and Brown Bag Series lunch concerts
The Soulsville Charter School is happy to announce the creation of the first Monday Music Minute (MMM) for TSCS! The purpose of the MMM is to highlight the wonderful music education offerings at Soulsville and increase whole-school music engagement. Each Monday,...

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: TSCS 10th grader Rickey Fondren, recently interviewed by CNN, has high hopes of taking Shakespeare to the stage
Soulsville Charter School student Rickey Fondren, also a Stax Music Academy student, was recently interviewed by CNN for a story on the academy’s Black History Month virtual concert. Now, he’s planning to take to the stage with the Tennessee Shakespeare Company for...

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Colina Sanders, Class of 2012, now works as a supervisor and Congregate Specialist for the Department of Children Services here in Tennessee
While and after attending The Soulsville Charter School, Colina worked as an intern at the Memphis law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz and as an intern for the Stax Music Academy. She went on to attend Middle Tennessee State University,...

STAFF SPOTLIGHT: TSCS Aunt, parent, volunteer, and Senior Banquet & Senior Prom caterer Veronica Raynor now a proud staff member
Veronica Raynor noticed something she liked about The Soulsville Charter School while picking up her nieces and nephews from school one day many years ago. Now, she is a teaching assistant and substitute teacher at TSCS and discusses her journey, her catering...

STAFF SPOTLIGHT: Meet Demetrius Robinson, Director of the award-winning Soulsville Chorale and Music Department Chair at Soulsville
Demetrius Robinson, who serves as the Director of Choral Activities and Music Department Chair at The Soulsville Charter School (TSCS), recently had the honor of taking the Soulsville Chorale to Nashville for a performance at the Tennessee Music Educators Association...

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTS
By Staci Johnson and Tim Sampson. Scroll down and read about three incredible Soulsville Charter School graduates who are out there making their mark in the world. Zakiah Walker, Class of 2017, graduated from Howard University in 2021 and has traveled and studied...