There are 135 article(s) tagged National Civil Rights Museum:

• July 2019

  • Legend, Steinem and Abiola to receive NCRM Freedom Awards in October

    The honors were announced Thursday by National Civil Rights Museum President Terri Lee Freeman. The awards ceremony and gala along with the children’s forum will be Oct. 30.

    By Bill Dries July 25, 2019

• May 2019

  • Alice Marie Johnson to speak at National Civil Rights Museum June 3

    Alice Marie Johnson, the Memphis woman who was granted clemency last June after serving more than 21 years in prison, will share her story June 3 at the National Civil Rights Museum.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 29, 2019

  • The Weekly Memphian: Goat Yoga, Violent Femmes and Real Memphis Wrestling

    The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers May 15-21.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff May 15, 2019

• April 2019

  • King’s words resonate with new rhythm, insight

    During the annual observance, civil rights veteran and icon Rev. James Lawson also talked about his invitation for King to come to Memphis in behalf of sanitation workers and the "politics of assassination."

    By Bill Dries April 04, 2019

• February 2019

  • America has a hate problem

    As our country continues to debate over how we secure our borders, whether or not to build a wall to keep people out of our country, we might consider taking a closer look at those who are born within it. Hate is killing our country.

    By Terri Lee Freeman February 08, 2019

• January 2019

  • Kerner Commission update confronts questions of time, change and familiar issues

    Alan Curtis, president of the Eisenhower Foundation, was in Memphis last week to talk about an update of the landmark Kerner Commission report on 1968 riots.

    By Bill Dries January 14, 2019

• November 2018

  • Let’s stop tearing down community and build something we can all be proud of

    In early October the National Civil Rights Museum, along with Bridges and Facing History and Ourselves, launched a campaign to encourage empathy.

    By Terri Lee Freeman November 03, 2018

• October 2018

  • Beverly Robertson tapped as interim leader of Greater Memphis Chamber

    For at least a year, the Greater Memphis Chamber will be led by an African-American woman whose deep roots in the city are matched by a stellar track record in business and nonprofit worlds.

    By Wayne Risher October 24, 2018

  • Freedom Awards match turbulence of 1968 with today

    Former Vice President Joe Biden told several thousand people at the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Awards Wednesday, Oct. 17, that the gains made by the movement honored in the museum are “under siege.” “Once again, we need your energy,” Biden said as he accepted the award at the Orpheum theater.

    By Bill Dries October 18, 2018

  • Jackson: Midterms about ‘mood to fight back’

    Rev. Jesse Jackson knows the National Civil Rights Museum well. The two-time Democratic presidential contender, close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and leader of the merged civil rights groups Rainbow-PUSH has been there often since the museum opened in 1991.

    By Bill Dries October 17, 2018