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Category: Confederate Monuments

Posted inConfederate Monuments

For MLK50’s founder, the trauma lingers despite Forrest statue’s fall

by Wendi C. Thomas December 20, 2021August 21, 2023

I don’t remember learning about Klansman and slaver Nathan Bedford Forrest in the Memphis City Schools in the 1980s.  In fact, I don’t think I was aware that the Confederate general, astride an equestrian statue, occupied a place of prominence in a city park until 2003. That’s when I became a metro columnist at The […]

Posted inRacial Justice

Council to consider some name dropping, community lifting for streets, public spaces

by Carrington J. Tatum and Jacob Steimer November 19, 2021August 22, 2023
Posted inMemphis

Happy Halloween: Here are 5 tricks and 5 treats for you

by Adrienne Johnson Martin October 29, 2021September 11, 2023
Posted inConfederate Monuments

Memorial to slavery now space for Juneteenth celebration

by Carrington J. Tatum June 3, 2021August 21, 2023
Posted inConfederate Monuments, Martin Luther King, Racial Justice

Call them by their names

by Andrea Morales December 22, 2018May 17, 2023
Posted inConfederate Monuments, Racial Justice, Racism

Memphis remembers

by J. Dylan Sandifer and Deborah Douglas December 21, 2018September 8, 2023
Posted inBlack Lives Matter, Confederate Monuments, Racial Justice

They all fall — and stay — down

by MLK50 Memphis December 20, 2018August 21, 2023
Posted inConfederate Monuments, Democracy, Racial Justice, Racism

This is how racist laws are made

by Wendi C. Thomas February 23, 2018August 22, 2023
Posted inBlack Lives Matter

Erasure Southern style?

by Micaela Watts January 9, 2018August 21, 2023
Posted inConfederate Monuments, Racial Justice

Reclaiming our … space

by MLK50 Memphis December 26, 2017August 21, 2023

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