There are 11 article(s) tagged Charles McKinney:

• September 2023

  • Orpheum opens educational ‘Balcony Project’ exhibit

    Outside of where the Orpheum Theatre’s Black-only balcony entrance once stood, a new educational exhibit was unveiled on Wednesday.

    By Kambui Bomani September 27, 2023

• July 2023

  • Rhodes students working with noted hip-hop scholar

    The program gives Rhodes students a chance to work with community leaders and researchers to create projects about the Mid-South.

    By Rashod Cobb July 01, 2023

• April 2023

  • MLK anniversary offers broader view of Civil Rights Movement and present

    Two history professors, looking at the city’s Civil Rights Movement since Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination 55 years ago, talk about Tyre Nichols, police reform and where today’s movement is headed on “Behind The Headlines.”

    By Bill Dries April 01, 2023

• February 2022

  • Six apply for appointment to vacant state Senate seat

    Four of the six applicants have pulled and/or filed petitions to run for a full 4-year term in the Senate seat. In other action, the commission approved funding for juvenile counselors in police precincts. 

    By Bill Dries February 28, 2022

  • County Commission to get final list for Senate vacancy

    The commission won’t fill the vacancy until next month but most if not all of the names on the list are expected to be those running in the August primaries for a full four-year term in Nashville.

    By Bill Dries February 25, 2022

• January 2021

  • Local leaders get parts in ‘Say It Loud’ at Hattiloo Theatre

    In a free, virtual series, actors will perform speeches by Booker T. Washington, Shirley Chisholm, Dick Gregory and John Lewis. They’ll be introduced by Shelby County Commission members present and past and a Rhodes College professor, among others. 

    By Peggy Burch January 18, 2021

• January 2020

  • Memphis King Day comes with cold crowds, hot talk about King’s legacy

    Thousands lined up to tour the National Civil Rights Museum Monday and at a Midtown forum, there was new reaction to Sunday's tour of the museum by Vice President Mike Pence. The reactions 52 years after Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination show his legacy and what it means today remains a volatile topic.

    By Bill Dries January 21, 2020

• July 2019

  • Memphis@200: Race an intrinsic aspect of Memphis’ complex story

    Race is a complicated, foreboding and necessary theme to consider in Memphis's 200-year history. It's also more than the city's past. Race is part of the city's eternal present.

    By Bill Dries, Jared Boyd and Elle Perry July 15, 2019

• February 2019

  • New discussions of old Memphis narratives challenge views of Memphis history

    The city’s image and its reality, 200 years after its founding sometimes part company in how the narrative of Memphis is told.

    By Bill Dries February 17, 2019

  • Essays on Memphis ‘Black Struggle’ offer counter-narrative

    A collection of essays on the African-American struggle in Memphis by 17 historians is seen by its editors as a “powerful counter-narrative” to a more compressed history of the city.

    By Bill Dries February 14, 2019

  • Politics Podcast: ‘An Unseen Light’ and Memphis history reconsidered

    Historians Dr. Charles McKinney and Dr. Aram Goudsouzian talk about the history of the black struggle in Memphis on The Daily Memphian Politics podcast.

    By Natalie Van Gundy February 14, 2019