There are 5 article(s) tagged Terri Lee Freeman:

• December 2020

  • Freedom Award goes virtual at National Civil Rights Museum

    The National Civil Rights Museum’s annual Freedom Awards Friday, Dec. 11, will be basically a “greatest hits” online moment in this year of the pandemic.

    By Bill Dries December 14, 2020

  • Opinion: Under Terri Freeman, the National Civil Rights Museum became a catalyst for change

    Freeman asked us to take what we felt inside the museum outside and apply it.

    By Dan Conaway December 11, 2020

  • For Terri Lee Freeman, leaving rights museum ‘a personal decision’

    National Civil Rights Museum president Terri Lee Freeman is leaving in February to lead a museum in Baltimore. She arrived at the helm of the museum just as the city’s new activism began to surface.

    By Bill Dries December 04, 2020

  • Freeman leaves National Civil Rights Museum for Baltimore post

    During her six-year tenure, Freeman oversaw the museum’s year-and-a-half-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination at the Lorraine Motel.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff December 03, 2020

• April 2020

  • Before ‘stay woke,’ Dr. King told us to ‘remain awake’ through the revolution

    This pandemic has awakened us to the fragility of our economy, which depends heavily on small business, hourly wages and gig economy workers. Maybe we are on the precipice of a revolution. Great crises usually inspire great change.

    By Terri Lee Freeman April 04, 2020