Kym Clark
Anchor
Memphis, TN
Kym Clark is an anchor and reporter for newscasts on 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.
In these days of online ordering, there’s something nostalgic about walking into a busy bookstore, getting a big whiff of that new book smell, and seeing people relaxing into a soft chair while browsing through a good book.
There’s something about the feeling those tiny building blocks bring, especially when you see them in completed form.
In this week’s 5 Star Story, we’re taking a trip down the Peppermint Trail for a seasonal celebration in Oxford, Mississippi.
The dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy returned to the Orpheum Theatre this holiday season – with Ballet Memphis’ “The Nutcracker,” a holiday tradition for Mid-Southerners for nearly 40 years now.
As many Mid-Southerners know, the holidays in Memphis wouldn’t be the same without the seasonal display at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Whitehaven.
Some of our favorites have called Memphis home for decades and to say thanks, we’re saluting them as this week’s 5 Star Story.
As the African proverb goes, “It takes a village to raise a child,” and in the case of this week’s 5 Star Story, that village is Memphis and Shelby County.
The annual COGIC gathering has a multi-million dollar impact on Memphis, and this week Kym Clark explores the origins of the largest African American Pentecostal denomination in the U.S.
The subject of this week’s 5 Star Story is an institution of higher learning with some stories to share. U.S. Supreme Court Justices, Bronze Star Medalists, generals, and even Pulitzer Prize-winning authors are among the list of graduates.
Rhodes College is celebrating 175 years of higher learning and planning a host of activities in honor of the milestone.
If you’ve lived in Memphis for anytime, you know that we have some of the best water in the world! And the brew masters in this city know good water makes good beer.
In this week’s 5 Star Story featuring the people, places and things that make us proud, we’re getting “Lost in Space” at the Mid-South Corn Maze.
ARTSMemphis has helped thousands of local arts groups and artists throughout its 60-year history.
You might recognize Mary Hollis Inboden from any number of her scene-stealing roles in series on ABC, AMC, Lifetime, HBO, Starz - the list goes on and on.
One Memphis restaurant is at the top of so many “best-of” lists it’s hard to keep up! USA Today ranks it number one among the nation’s best hotel restaurants--we’re talking about Chez Philippe inside the Peabody Hotel in Downtown Memphis.
In this week’s 5 Star Story about the people, places and things that make us proud to call Memphis home, we’re going behind the scenes with the confectioners at Bluff City Toffee.
Few things are tougher than rebuilding after a natural disaster; just ask the folks in Wynne, Arkansas, whose town was hit by a tornado last spring.
From the “I Love Memphis” mural in the Crosstown neighborhood to glittering “Love Doves” in Overton Square, Kong Wee Pang is putting her mark on Memphis.
Seventy-five years is a long time for any business to be in operation, but when it comes to the restaurant industry, 75 years is a true testament to resiliency.
Competition in the FedEx St. Jude Championship begins this week at TPC Southwind, where crews are putting on the finishing touches to make this city shine when the golfing world tunes in.
There is always plenty to see and do during a regular visit, but the zoo’s expanded close encounters program is truly something to roar about.
Overnight summer camp is a rite of passage for many kids, but it’s also something kids with special needs or disabilities—roughly 40,000 in the Memphis area alone—might never get the opportunity to enjoy.
In this 5 Star Story, Action News 5's Kym Clark is highlighting the Memphis 40+ Double Dutch Club.
Just up Interstate 40, about an hour and a half away, you’ll find a safari adventure like no other in Tennessee.
We’re going inside the “Heart and Soul” of Memphis at the studios of AM 1070 WDIA.
The Links at Pine Hill golf course is nearing the end of an extensive renovation after almost 90 years in business.
The award-winning nonprofit newsroom known as MLK50: Justice Through Journalism challenges the status quo in a way we can all be proud.
Memphis was made on music, and since 1979 each June, the country celebrates our city’s contributions during Black Music Month.
Bull riding is a rodeo sport that requires a rider stay on a bucking bull, and it might bring to mind activities at ranches in western states. However, it’s also pretty big in the Mid-South, even offered as a school-sanctioned sport at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia.
Patient families at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis were treated to a star-studded celebration this morning at the opening of Seacrest Studios inside the hospital.
It’s not unusual to hear all kinds of music throughout the halls of the Dr. Willard R. Sparks Performing Arts Center at Briarcrest High School, which has a music program that could rival some colleges.
We’re just a day away from the start of this year’s Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, where dozens of teams will converge upon Tom Lee Park to compete.
Business is brisk for the floral business this time of year; the last three weekends were filled with corsage and boutonniere orders for prom. And with Mother’s Day and graduations just around the corner, Rachel’s Flowers at 2486 Poplar Avenue is one busy place.
The South’s Grandest Hotel Rooftop Parties are into their eighth decade, bringing music, fun and sometimes lifelong relationships to those who attend.
If you can handle heights and heart-stopping rope courses in the trees, then “Go Ape” on North Pine Lake Drive at Shelby Farms is definitely for you.
Workers are putting the finishing touch on $11 million in renovations at the BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove, just off Getwell Road in Southaven, Mississippi--work that began in late 2020.
Vinyl is back, outpacing CD sales for the first time since 1987, and Memphis is at the forefront.
Wayne’s Candy Company is located just off South Main, on the corner of East Carolina Avenue and 2nd Street, and has been part of the Memphis landscape for 76 years.
Every can from Ghost River Brewing is stamped with a cypress tree, like those found in the river’s wetlands. Kesky bought the brewery, in operation on South Main since 2007, three years ago.
Central Station Memphis has anchored the corner of Main and G.E. Patterson in what is now called the South Main historic Arts District since 1914.
Burke’s Book Store is one of the oldest independent book stores in the country and is rapidly approaching 150 years in business. Located on Cooper Street, Burke’s has an inventory of books as eclectic as the midtown neighborhood where it now sits.
The Collage Dance Collective is one of only a few professional ballet companies in the world with a roster of dancers who are Black, Indigenous or People of Color.
In this 5 Star Story about the things that make us proud to call the Mid-South home, we celebrate an urban jungle in the heart of the Bluff City, the Memphis Botanic Garden. For 70 years now, the garden has been a perennial favorite for Memphians.
The distance between Memphis and Africa is well over 7,000 miles, but you don’t have to go that far to get a heaping taste of what many call the Cradle of Civilization.
The art of barbecue is about Memphis as you can get. And there are barbecue legends in this city who have used their knowledge to build empires while also helping their neighborhoods.
In our ongoing effort to honor the people, places and things that make us proud to call the Mid-South home, we’re celebrating Black History Month with A Tour Of Possibilities (ATOP).
A new exhibit at the Museum of History and Science (MoSH) takes visitors on a trip through that history, as well as its future. In our quest to showcase the people, places and things that make us proud to call the Mid-South home, we’re delving into “Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & the Machine.”
In this 5 Star Story about the people, places, and things that make us proud to call the Mid-South home, we’re going inside the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital cut the ribbon Monday on its first treatment-free and clinical staff-free floor.
Mom and Pop stores are more and more difficult to find these days, but there’s at least one such store in Memphis that’s been in business for almost 100 years.
