February's edition of Runner's World magazine is recognizing the Memphis St. Jude Half-Marathon as one of the best half-marathons in the country.

The experts at the magazine praised the scenic tour of Memphis during the race.  That tour includes Sun Studios, the National Civil Rights Museum, AutoZone Park, Beale Street, and the campus of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

The article says that most runners participate in the race specifically to support the Hospital, and are often moved by the families and patients who line the course.

Memphis Cares Mentoring Movement will celebrate it's 5th anniversary Saturday, Jan. 26 at noon inside the Memphis Education Association Building at 126 Flicker Street.

Mentoring awards will be presented and Susan Taylor, founder of the National Cares Mentoring Program, will issue a call to action on behalf of mentoring the community's children.

Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, and his wife, Attorney Ruby Wharton, along with Calvin Anderson-VP & Chief of Staff, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, and Kym Clark-Action News 5 Morning News Anchor, are all slated to participate.

Memphis Cares was established in 2007 by Sheila Flemming-Hunter, Founder and President of The Black Rose Foundation for Children.

The dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. comes alive in an adult Greek class that begins on his national holiday today.

Have you ever thought of learning the Greek language and some Greek culture as well? You have a chance to tonight at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Memphis. Retired Priest Father Nicholas Vieron is beginning his Adult Greek tonight in the church hall at Sam Cooper and Highland in Memphis.

Father Vieron has been teaching his adult greek class for 40 years and always begins on Martin Luther King Day. Vieron is one of a few white ministers left from the 1968 struggle who manifested efforts for social justice led by the late Rabbi James Wax.

It's a 14 week course that meets once a week at the church