Tyre Nichols’ Death Began With A Traffic Stop. Now, Organizers Want To Rethink Public Safety
With city council ready to discuss excessive force in policy, DeCarcerate Memphis is pushing for true solutions, not just reform
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Five Lessons I Learned From Talking To Unhoused People
They taught me about the complex issues that lead to the streets and one thing we could all do to help
Ideas of MLK, RFK still needed today
This piece originally published in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. When President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1964, his audacious goal was to end poverty in the…
Thistle and Bee offers dignity, livable wage to women leaving local sex economy
Vulnerable women get a second chance to build a life on their terms creating healthy, healing products
Cyntoia Brown case reveals entrenched problems with Tennessee juvenile justice
State law makes it easier to throw Brown away than consider traumas youth face and offer them hope of rehabilitation
Policing the Protesters
This article originally appeared on MLK50. When the interim director of the Memphis Police Department linked arms with organizers of a protest that shut down traffic on the city’s Interstate…
Sunday rally planned to mark one-year anniversary of Memphis bridge protest
This article originally appeared on MLK50. On Sunday, organizers will gather at Tom Lee Park to mark the anniversary of the July 10, 2016 protest that shut down the Hernando-Desoto…
“Take it to the bridge”
This article originally appeared on MLK50. MEMPHIS — July 10 marks the anniversary of the largest spontaneous act of civil disobedience in the city’s modern history. The spark: The police killings of…
Reparations well-intentioned, but insufficient for the debt owed
This article originally appeared on MLK50. On Thursday, the city of Memphis announced it would pay what can only be described as reparations for decades of shorting the retirement funds…
May Day, May Day! Immigrant workers and low-wage workers unite
Struggle to survive on poverty wages builds solidarity among workers