4 articles by Bryce W. Ashby :

• February 2020

  • Indigence among us

    Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa February 03, 2020

• August 2019

  • Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize this Republican Party

    In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools. 

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa August 14, 2019

• May 2019

  • Partial judges among us

    About 100 years ago, two murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, captivated our nation and the world. Two Italian immigrants – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti – were accused, convicted of the crimes and executed in a Massachusetts electric chair in 1927.

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa May 07, 2019

• April 2019

  • Immigration: ‘The best problem’

    In Memphis, new immigrants make up just over 5 percent of the metro population, but account for 9 percent of the area's business owners.

    By Bryce W. Ashby, Michael J. LaRosa April 01, 2019