MLK anniversary offers broader view of Civil Rights Movement and present
Local authors and professors Charles McKinney (left) and Aram Goudsouzian join host Eric Barnes and Daily Memphian reporter Bill Dries to talk about activism and police brutality, in relation to past and present events — including the impact it has had on the Mid-South community, its citizens and legislation. (Screenshot)
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.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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