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A Black woman wearing a hoodie with a small dog peaking out of the neck sits in the grass with two small Black boys. One boy is seated to her left. The other boy is draped across her back.
Posted inHousing

Memphis needs more apartments, but neighbors are getting in the way

by Jacob Steimer December 1, 2022January 16, 2023

…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…

Posted inGovernment

Corker leads Tennessee group urging ‘yes’ vote on anti-slavery amendment

by Tennessee Lookout August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

…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

by Adrienne Johnson Martin June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

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

by Briana Perry May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

…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

by Adrienne Johnson Martin October 29, 2021November 1, 2021

…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…

Posted inFrom the editor

Happy Juneteenth – unless you’re mad about critical race theory

by Wendi C. Thomas June 18, 2021July 23, 2021

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

by Hannah Grabenstein June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

…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…

Posted inFrom the editor

Tennessee’s transphobic bathroom law is coming. Allies, get ready.

by Wendi C. Thomas June 4, 2021July 22, 2021

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

by Carrington J. Tatum June 3, 2021June 4, 2021

…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…

Posted inNewsroom

Now Hiring: MLK50’s first executive editor

by MLK50 Staff March 17, 2021July 23, 2021

…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…

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