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Tag: Black Lives Matter

Literature

Life, Breath, and Death

Chapter16 Community February 26, 2021 Black Lives MatterBook ReviewChapter16Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time Coming is an elegy and a call to action By Kashif Andrew Graham for Chapter16.org “I can’t breathe.” Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time…

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Community Featured Story Literature

The Problem with Policing

Chapter16 Community October 20, 2020 Aram GoudsouzianBenjamin L Hooks Central LibraryBlack Lives MatterPolice Reform

In Occupied Territory, Simon Balto digs at the roots of the current turmoil over race and policing By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org Every year, the Benjamin…

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Literature

Home, Happiness, and Hurt

Chapter16 Community October 2, 2020 Black Lives MatterBook ReviewChapter16Kashif Andrew GrahamSouthern Festival of Books

Writers of color consider what it means to belong in the South By Kashif Andrew Graham for Chapter16.org A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of…

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Community Opinion

I couldn’t see, I couldn’t breathe. It’s time we acknowledge our collective trauma.

Marissa Kizer September 7, 2020 Black Lives MatterCOVID StoriesOppression

OPINION By Marissa Kizer “A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t…

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Literature Opinion

White People’s Ego Will Get You Killed

Ellen Morris Prewitt August 23, 2020 Black Lives MatterEllen Morris Prewitt

“Why am I repeating this story in such detail? Because white people have fear of Black folks. We do. Even when we don’t want to.”…

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Wayne Dowdy's Dateline Memphis

Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis, August 12, 2020

Wayne Dowdy August 13, 2020 Black Lives MatterDemocracyElectionsWayne Dowdy

By G. Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares with Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…

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Featured Story Literature

Gordon School: An Episode from Memphis, Part II

Sophia Mason August 13, 2020 Black Lives MatterDesegregationGordon Elementary SchoolGraphic essayNorthside High SchoolSchool Busing

Two of the Memphis 13, and Four Periods of Desegregation in the Shelby County School System WITNESSES TO HISTORY By Sophia Mason Gordon School: An Episode…

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Community

Despite the pandemic, Generation Z activists took to the streets. Are the polls next?

MLK Justice Through Journalism July 22, 2020 ActivismBlack Lives MatterGeneration ZMLK50Protests

Feature image: Allyson Smith helps lead a June 5, 2020, protest that proceeded through Cooper-Young and denounced police brutality and racist systems. Photo by Andrea…

Read More Despite the pandemic, Generation Z activists took to the streets. Are the polls next?
Wayne Dowdy's Dateline Memphis

Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline: Memphis July 15, 2020

Wayne Dowdy July 17, 2020 Black Lives Matter

By G. Wayne Dowdy In another letter to Colonel John McLeod Keating, managing editor of the Memphis Daily Appeal during the 1878 yellow fever epidemic,…

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Featured Story Personal Narrative

“I didn’t want to exist anymore.” Quarantine Diaries, Memphis: Steve Williams

Kristin Jones July 9, 2020 Black Lives MatterCOVID StoriesQuarantine DiaryVo Williams

A revealing series of self-portraits during the quarantine Here we are again. These profiles were photographed and written during the spring months when we were…

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