…its suburbs are majority white. Leading up to Juneteenth last year, President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers made a racial equity case for zoning reform: making middle- and upper-class…
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Corker leads Tennessee group urging ‘yes’ vote on anti-slavery amendment
…in 2021. The “Vote Yes on 3” campaign launched in June to coincide with Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the date in 1865 when U.S. Gen. Gordon Granger notified enslaved people in Galveston,…
Posted inRacial Justice
4 ways to help Memphians feel more free
Photo illustration by Andrea Morales At MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, we think it’s important to remember the true meaning of Juneteenth: It’s a celebration of freedom, long overdue. And freedom…
Posted inReproductive Health
The plan is clear: Surveillance and criminalization instead of abortion rights
…Tennessee legislature passed an abortion ban that Gov. Bill Lee championed. This “6-24 week” ban passed on the morning of Juneteenth and would have become the most restrictive abortion ban…
Posted inMemphis
Happy Halloween: Here are 5 tricks and 5 treats for you
…Wells’s family: Michelle Duster, her great-granddaughter; Tiana Farrell, her great-grandniece, Jasmine, 3, her great-great-grandniece, Daniel Duster, her great-grandson. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Let freedom ring This year’s Juneteenth…
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Happy Juneteenth – unless you’re mad about critical race theory
Happy Juneteenth to everyone but the congressional Republicans who voted for the Juneteenth federal holiday while also twisting their knickers into a knot over critical race theory, which most could not summarize…
Posted inCoronavirus
When get-out-the-vote becomes get-out-the-vaccine
…Memphis to headline a vaccine canvassing kickoff event organized by the Shelby County Voter Alliance, along with Juneteenth In Douglass Park and the national Made To Save initiative, a national…
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Tennessee’s transphobic bathroom law is coming. Allies, get ready.
Good afternoon to all except folks who still stan a slaver, We’re two weeks from Juneteenth, which has been a holiday for the MLK50 team well before it was hip…
Posted inConfederate Monuments
Memorial to slavery now space for Juneteenth celebration
…charged with assault. Juneteenth in Memphis this month will celebrate freedom from slavery and from a memorial to an enslaver on the very ground where the monument to a Confederate…
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Now Hiring: MLK50’s first executive editor
…Juneteenth, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Eve and Day, Christmas Eve and Day, New Year’s Eve and Day) Flexible work schedule — some night/weekend hours will be required Up to…