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MLK50: Justice Through Journalism

On poverty, power and public policy

Category: Civil Rights

Posted inProtests

Block a road, catch a felony: These Republicans’ bills are meant to discourage you from protesting, critics say

by Carrington J. Tatum April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

Critics, including Democratic lawmakers and civil liberties advocates, say that two Republican-backed bills working their way through the state legislature are designed to criminalize residents exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble.

Posted inBlack Lives Matter

12 books to inspire a movement

by Shiraz Ahmed January 16, 2021January 21, 2021
Posted inCivil Rights

MLK50 remembers civil rights icon, equality champion John Lewis

by Madeline Faber July 31, 2020October 5, 2020
Posted inBlack History Month, Black Love, Civil Rights

Black love: Life is (still) good for Emma and Thomas Trass

by Rachel Louise Martin February 28, 2020October 5, 2020
Posted inPolicing in America

Now run tell that: Memphis needs protection, not occupation

by Rev. Earle J. Fisher November 7, 2019October 11, 2020
Posted inRacial Justice

Overdue reparations is the key to closing the racial wealth gap

by Dr. William Darity Jr. November 6, 2019October 11, 2020
Posted inPolicing in America

It’s not just the Russians: Mayor Strickland’s disinformation campaign

by Wendi C. Thomas November 2, 2019October 11, 2020
Posted inCivil Rights

Boo! The year’s scariest laws, proposals and policies

by Michael Jackson October 30, 2019October 11, 2020
Posted inBlack Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Journalism, Racial Justice

Excerpt: ‘Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America’

by Dorothy Gilliam February 13, 2019October 5, 2020
Posted inCivil Rights, Martin Luther King

King Day 2019 in pictures

by Andrea Morales January 28, 2019October 5, 2020

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