Kym Clark
Anchor
Memphis, TN
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Kym Clark anchors the noon, 3:30 and 4 p.m. newscasts weekdays on Action News 5.
The University of Georgia graduate began her TV news career at WMGT in Macon, Georgia before moving to WJBF in Augusta.
Kym joined the Action News 5 family June 20, 1988. The Emmy Award-winning news anchor has interviewed numerous people throughout her tenure, including Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres.
Kym enjoys visiting and speaking at area schools and emceeing events throughout the city. She has also served on the boards of directors for numerous charitable organizations and as a mentor to young Mid-Southerners.
Kym is also a wife and mother.
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In this 5 Star Story, Kym Clark attended practice to show us while there may be snow on the roof those fabulous over 50 entertainers definitely have fire in the chimney and on the court!
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We’re talking about one of the nation’s largest piano, band and orchestra stores and the largest in the Mid-South.
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This 5 Star story shows you how she’s turning her passion for family and food into a growing food empire.
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Our 5 Star Stories typically focus on a single topic: celebrating a hidden gem or a source of pride in Memphis and the surrounding area. But for this one, we’re taking a different approach.
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Peanuts, peanuts get your peanuts here!
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Memphis considers itself the barbecue capital of the world. And while there are dozens of places in town to get some of the best barbecue ever, few restaurants have been in business as long as the subject of this 5 Star Story: Tops Bar-B-Q, which has a smokin’ hot 70-year story.
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The Woman’s Exchange of Memphis is one of the longest-running nonprofits in the city and can add the likes of novelist Louisa May Alcott as a former member.
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Turns out, the Bluff City is home to the oldest high school band in America and is preparing to embark on a celebration 150 years in the making.
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Take a stroll through history, featuring one of the only nonprofit organizations in Shelby County that promotes historic preservation -- we’re talking about Memphis Heritage, Inc., which helps give our “past a future.”
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As we celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing the story of how a church of brush and sticks became a safe harbor for former slaves and their families and is now a sanctuary for thousands.
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As we continue our tribute to Black History Month, we’re delving into art, in particular, African American artwork in two of this city’s largest galleries.
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In our continuing efforts to celebrate Black History Month this year, we’re shining a light on the heart of Soulsville USA -- the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.
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We’re celebrating a family in Memphis who has a buttery family recipe that dates back decades.
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By 1993, downtown Memphis was in the middle of another revival and MATA relaunched the trolley service with four restored vintage cars on the Main Street Mall and they were an instant hit!
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The building at Front and Union in downtown Memphis was once home to the Memphis Cotton Exchange, which was not only the heart of the city but also the cotton industry.
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He was born Adolph Thornton Junior July 27, 1985 in Chicago but is known to millions of fans as Young Dolph.
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We're giving the "Man in Black" his own five-star honors, specifically the colony where he grew up.
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As we spotlight the people, places, and things that make us proud to call the Mid-South home, this story is about the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza, which is roughly 900 residents strong.
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Jones BBQ Diner has literally gone through the fire and back again, and is now getting the attention of the New York Times.
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This 5-Star Story is about what makes Memphis so special. Kym Clark teams up with some real-life ghost hunters to tour some of the Bluff City's most historical haunts.
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We're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a 5-Star Story honoring Memphis' only Spanish-language radio stations!
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The small town of Henning, Tennessee in Lauderdale County is home to a museum that honors one of the 20th century’s most famous authors.
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There’s no doubt -- Memphis is “The Home of the Blues.” And that music has been celebrated and honored for 40 years by a world-renowned Memphis-based organization.
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“The Orpheum is considered the second most haunted building in the city of Memphis, with the first being down the street at Ernestine and Hazel’s.”
Where the show must go on is more than just a mantra. And it’s all been happening at the corner of Beale and Main streets in downtown Memphis, home to arts and entertainment since the late 1800s.
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When it comes to the things we love about Memphis, FedExForum ranks near the top as the premier sports and entertainment facility in the Mid-South.
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Tri-State Black Pride is carrying on the tradition of helping members of the black and brown LGBTQ community through the struggles of magnified discrimination.
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We’re treading the boards of the second oldest arts organization in Memphis and one of the oldest and most successful community theaters in the country.
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Mid-South Pride is a volunteer-based, community-driven organization dedicated to serving the needs of the LGBTQ+ community and its partners through community events, activities, entertainment, and celebrations of diversity.
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Mary Dixie Carter shares more than a name with her famous mother, though the drama she creates is on the page, not the stage, in her debut novel.
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The city of Marion, Arkansas paid homage to the 150th anniversary of the event with a museum dedicated to the hundreds of souls who died in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.
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Just off Interstate 55 sits the seat of Tate County, Mississippi, a bustling town of 8,000 where for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, many a traveler found respite on their journey.
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Memphis Central Station, on the southwest corner of South Main and G.E. Patterson since 1914, in its heyday, hosting more than 50 trains a day filled with passengers.
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Pancho’s was the brainchild of Morris Berger who surprised his son with a high school graduation trip to Mexico in the 1950′s.
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For decades it housed Memphis’ largest employer and was Tennessee’s largest commercial building.
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For almost 30 years the museum has inspired generations of people around the world with its poignant and personal presentation of civil rights struggles throughout history.
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The liberal arts college is one of only ten Historically Black Colleges and Universities founded before 1868 still operating today.
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This 5 Star Story not only celebrates Black History Month, but it also shows how Soulsville’s past is shaping the future.
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For more than six months now a project has been underway to create a statue of Ida B. Wells at the corner of Beale and Fourth Street.
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Officials with the Tennessee Department of Health held a briefing to offer some answers about the vaccine distribution process in Shelby County.
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Memphis folklore tells of a lesser-known “conductor” on the Underground Railroad -- a man whose home served as a hideout for slaves on their journey to freedom.
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As you can imagine, there have been innumerable challenges for the district that serves 95,000 students, employs about 14,000 employees and manages more than 160 schools.
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The Memphis Rock ’n’ Soul Museum has been a Memphis gem for 20 years now although many of you may know little about it, except for its rockin’ signage outside FedExForum.
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We don’t often do 5 Star Stories about people, but there are some folks in the Mid-South who have to be labeled a crown jewel.
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The Mid-South is home to some of the most unique museums in the country, and this 5 Star Memphis museum is FORGING its recognition among the BEST. It’s a special place that turns iron and other seemingly unyielding metals into breathtaking gems of beauty.
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While ribs have been a staple at backyard barbecues for years, this 5 Star Story focuses on the restaurant credited with setting the standard for “Memphis-style” ribs more than 70 years ago.
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he West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center is our latest 5 Star Story. It’s hidden behind service stations and fast food restaurants just off I-40 near Brownsville on Sunny Hill Cove in what was once a Western Sizzlin', and it’s truly a hidden gem.
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Brussell’s Bonsai Nursery, the largest bonsai nursery in the United States, is certainly worthy of a 5 Star Story.
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As we continue celebrating the things we love about the Mid-South, the Germantown Performing Arts Center takes center stage as a 5 Star Story with a new outdoor space where you can tap into nature and the arts.
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It’s a delicious tale of a family who’s truly cornered the market on barbecue