• Donate
  • Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Our Story, Mission & Vision
    • Meet the team
    • Donate
    • Subscribe to our newsletter
    • Our supporters
    • Contact us securely
    • Editorial policies
  • Investigations
    • FedEx
    • Methodist Hospital and Debt Collection
    • Coronavirus in Memphis Warehouses
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Environmental Justice
  • Economic Justice
    • Living Wage
    • Poverty
    • Power/Wealth
    • Housing
    • Unions
  • More
    • Coronavirus
    • Democracy
      • Voting
      • Elections
      • Census
    • Racial Justice
      • Activism
      • Protests
      • Confederate Monuments
      • Racism
    • Criminal Justice
      • Courts
      • Juvenile Justice
      • Mass Incarceration
      • Policing in America
      • Surveillance
    • Health
      • Health Insurance
      • Reproductive Health
    • Education
    • Religion
    • Newsroom
      • Awards
      • Grants
      • Journalism
    • Social Justice
      • Civil Rights
      • Immigration
      • Bridge Protest
      • LGBTQ
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Skip to content

MLK50: Justice Through Journalism

On poverty, power and public policy

Category: Health

America’s history of medical racism haunts Black Memphians as COVID-19 vaccines arrive

by Hannah Grabenstein December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

As states kick off their massive and complicated coronavirus vaccination programs, many Black Memphians – worried about the fast development of the vaccines and centuries of racism at the hands of the government and the medical establishment – are hesitant to receive an inoculation. Most of the skeptics do not deny the breadth of the […]

Nearly three times more COVID deaths in Mississippi’s for-profit nursing homes, analysis shows

by Jerry Mitchell, Jayme Fraser and Kristine De Leon October 6, 2020October 7, 2020

She cared for COVID-19 patients — but when she caught the virus, she fought it alone

by Tammy Joyner September 4, 2020December 7, 2020

Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Funding is key to reducing cases, death rate

by Marvell L. Terry II August 20, 2020October 6, 2020

Being black and pregnant during a pandemic

by Maya McKenzie July 2, 2020October 5, 2020

You asked how to navigate life during the COVID-19 pandemic —  we answered

by Memphis Media Collaborative June 24, 2020October 5, 2020

Rising coronavirus cases delay a return to business as usual for barbers, stylists

by Cheryl V. Jackson June 3, 2020October 5, 2020

One thing the pandemic hasn’t stopped: Hospital debt collections

by Alec MacGillis April 28, 2020October 5, 2020

Losing her job and business, artist finds hope in a supportive community

by Sarah Brubaker April 23, 2020October 5, 2020

First COVID-19, now cancer, threaten to tank couple’s pet-sitting business

by Eileen Castine April 15, 2020October 5, 2020

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 5 Older posts

Archives

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

About Us

MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power and public policy — issues about which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cared deeply. Contact us at mlk50@mlk50.com.

Search our Archives

© 2021 MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic