Feature Image: Bridges USA is located on 477 North 5th Street in Uptown. (Submitted) Originally published July 2, By Ashley Davis, for High Ground News…
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150 Nonprofit Leaders Urge Memphis Officials to Engage in Action Steps, Accountability Following Wave of Racial Protests
Memphis Nonprofits Demand Action reported that most city and county leaders had yet to move on a host of urgently needed policy and practice reforms…
Read More 150 Nonprofit Leaders Urge Memphis Officials to Engage in Action Steps, Accountability Following Wave of Racial ProtestsVideo: Juneteenth in Douglass Park
Feature Image: To celebrate Juneteenth 2020, The Time is Now Douglass, the Official Black Lives Matter Memphis Chapter, and Memphis Artists for Change partnered to…
Read More Video: Juneteenth in Douglass ParkProtesting was empowering. It was also terrifying.
Feature Image: Sophia Perry It is critical, now more than ever, to stay informed,stay compassionate, and stay willing to learn. By Sophia Perry, for Chalkbeat…
Read More Protesting was empowering. It was also terrifying.The whole world is talking about police reform. Black Lives Matter has solutions.
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Read More The whole world is talking about police reform. Black Lives Matter has solutions.WCS & NPI: Partnering to remove systemic obstacles that affect students’ lives, communities, and families.
Whole Child Strategies partners with Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. in a shared commitment to resolving the systemic barriers to equality in Memphis neighborhoods. Feature photo: Student…
Read More WCS & NPI: Partnering to remove systemic obstacles that affect students’ lives, communities, and families.Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: June 17, 2020
By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Appeal newspaper during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…
Read More Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: June 17, 2020‘Mr. A, will I ever be a hashtag?’
Feature Image: Signs bear the name of three black people killed recently throughout the United States during protests on May 27, 2020, in Midtown Memphis. (Joe…
Read More ‘Mr. A, will I ever be a hashtag?’Saturday school is out. Memphis district lays out options for school year calendar.
Feature Image: Parents and students walk to Delano Optional School in Memphis on the first day of school last year. (Laura Faith Kebede/Chalkbeat) Laura Faith Kebede,…
Read More Saturday school is out. Memphis district lays out options for school year calendar.“We want change now!” Interfaith coalition demands systemic reform in policing, education funding and more
Feature image: Hundreds gathered outside of Memphis City Hall for a demonstration organized by MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope) on Tuesday, June…
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