MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Memphis, Tennessee
MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power and public policy — issues about which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cared deeply.
Who are the new MATA board members — and have they ever …
12 hours ago · “It’s not super friendly if you have to be somewhere, and that’s been the case for a while,” she said. Sandi Klink, 68. Background: Klink is the retired executive director of Disability Connection Midsouth (Memphis Center for Independent Living). She also serves on the boards of the University of Memphis Institute on Disability and the Tennessee Disability Coalition.
Charity Scott joins MLK50 as managing editor
Oct 8, 2024 · Before that, she spent over a decade at The Wall Street Journal, most recently as an award-winning corporate reporter. In 2021, she conceived of and co-led the team that developed the Journal’s package commemorating the centennial of the Tulsa race massacre, which won a New York Press Club award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.. Scott says MLK50’s “laser focus” on the intersection of ...
It’s been 4 years since MLK50 was born; lessons from the founder …
Apr 4, 2021 · We’ve forced institutions to change policy and raise workers’ pay.We’ve increased transparency, elevated the civic conversation around wages, rattled the status quo and of course, broken news. And now, we are 4. My initial plan was for MLK50 to be a one-year project that would end April 4, 2018. The headline on our first story: “The case for justice through journalism.”
The neglect of the bus goes round and round
Oct 3, 2024 · The neglect of the bus goes round and round. A rider gets on a bus at the Hudson Transit Center in 2021. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50. I’ve written before about MLK50: Justice Through Journalism’s approach to writing about poverty: We investigate it as though it were a crime. Poverty doesn’t just happen to people; it’s often man ...
5 takeaways from our investigation into Shelby County’s lead crisis
Feb 22, 2024 · One recent study found that a moderate increase in a kid’s blood lead level corresponds with a 5% higher likelihood of committing a crime, and another one found exposures to lead place boys at an almost 60% higher probability of facing juvenile detention.. While lead affects a child’s entire brain, it most damages the part responsible for …
- MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
MLK50 and its journalists continue to garner recognition for work that makes a meaningful, tangible difference in people’s lives. We are – as Dr. King was – committed to economic justice both in our journalism and in our employment practices. We’re aligned with the people he would have been aligned with had he not been assassinated more ...
MLK50 founder wins national journalism independence award
Apr 11, 2023 · The honor is given annually by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism ’s founding editor Wendi C. Thomas has been selected as winner of the 2023 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. MLK50 focuses on poverty, power and a range of public policy issues that affect local residents.
From threatened to thriving: How do we make Memphians safe?
Aug 16, 2023 · According to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission, gun-related violent incidents topped 1,600 in 2022, up 28% from just over 1,250 such incidents in 2016, the year Strickland took office. Guns are everywhere in Tennessee, and that’s how the Republican super-majority in the state legislature likes it. In 2021, the legislature made it legal for ...
MLK50’s Byhalia Pipeline stories win national award for …
Oct 14, 2021 · The 2020 graduate of Texas State University joined MLK50 last fall as a Report for America corps member. He quickly carved out an environmental justice beat. He focused on Plains All American Pipeline and Valero Energy Corporation’s plans to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline through majority Black Southwest Memphis against the wishes of residents.