Guest column: Lessons from Memphis can help with a crisis in democracy
“What can save our nation are movements which mobilize political action over the long haul — like the movements that have happened in Memphis.”
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“What can save our nation are movements which mobilize political action over the long haul — like the movements that have happened in Memphis.”
Forrest believed that the worth of Black people was only as laborers, nothing more.
Dr. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, a civil rights pioneer and champion of gender and racial equality, has died at age 86.
Taylor Jenkins wanted to pause and realize that life and freedom are more than just about basketball.
Police brutality and racism are not just black people’s problem; they’re an American problem, which makes them white people’s problem, too.
“At some point this pandemic will have run its course and we’ll get back to normal. ... Now, the question is when?’’
John McFerren died Saturday of natural causes. He was instrumental in registering African American voters and integrating Fayette County, Tennessee, schools.
The city on Monday carried out a plan to replace about 30 "Forrest Ave" street signs with "Forest Ave." The change assures the city is honoring trees instead of the Confederate general who was a slave trader and Ku Klux Klan leader.
In his early career, Russell Sugarmon played a key role in Memphis' political evolution, both as a candidate for city office in 1959 and as a lawyer for college students who staged sit-ins at lunch counters and public libraries.
Ernest Withers, the famous Memphis photographer, was also Ernest Withers the informant, a man whose life illustrates Martin Luther King's description of man's dual nature.
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