MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Memphis, Tennessee
网页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.
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网页MLK50 and its journalists continue to garner recognition for work that makes a meaningful, tangible difference in people’s lives. We are – as Dr. King was – committed to economic justice both in our journalism and in our employment practices. We’re aligned with the people he would have been aligned with had he not been assassinated more ...
Do you live in one of Memphis’ Blackest, whitest or most …
网页2021年8月6日 · In Memphis, there are 17 neighborhoods — as defined by census tracts — that are at least 98% Black, and there are five that are at least 90% white, according to 2015-2019 data from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Meet the MLK50 team - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
网页Email her at adrienne.martin@mlk50.com. Wendi C. Thomas, Investigative Editor & Publisher Emerita: Wendi C. Thomas founded MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in 2017 as a one-year project that grew into a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on poverty, power and public policy in Memphis. Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50 Editor and Publisher.
It’s been 4 years since MLK50 was born; lessons from the founder …
网页2021年4月4日 · We’ve forced institutions to change policy and raise workers’ pay.We’ve increased transparency, elevated the civic conversation around wages, rattled the status quo and of course, broken news. And now, we are 4. My initial plan was for MLK50 to be a one-year project that would end April 4, 2018. The headline on our first story: “The case for justice through journalism.”
An MLK50 celebration - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
网页2022年6月14日 · Adrienne Johnson Martin is executive editor of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Contact her at adrienne.martin@mlk50.com. Tagged: Downtown from the editor hidden. Some of the MLK50: Justice Through Journalism staff, past and present, at our fifth anniversary party on June 11, 2022 at Brickwood Hall in downtown.
‘Memphis Seven’ members are still at work and still fighting for …
网页3 天之前 · It’s been over two years since Sanchez and six colleagues — dubbed “the Memphis Seven” — were fired after they tried to unionize their Poplar-Highland store. At the request of the National Labor Relations Board, the District Court of the Western District District of Tennessee issued a preliminary injunction against their …
Neighborhoods - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
网页After the Poor People’s Campaign faded, Memphis tenant organizers carried the torch. Where did the movement go? by Justin A. Davis. Tyre Nichols’ death began with a traffic stop. Now, organizers want to rethink public safety. by Brittany Brown.
A week of rest for MLK50 - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
网页2024年8月23日 · A week of rest for MLK50. We will publish again after Sept. 3. by MLK50 Staff August 23, 2024. AUDRE LORDE. Photo illustration by Andrea Morales for MLK50. It was the late great Audre Lorde who said, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”.
MLK50 receives second year of support from groundbreaking equity funder
网页2021年5月25日 · The Ford Foundation has been a key partner in the REJ Fund, committing $6 million over three years. “Philanthropy is past due in supporting the bold leadership of nonprofit journalism. To be clear – we can’t afford to scale inequality by only funding news organizations serving predominantly white Americans at scale.