By Mark Fleischer, StoryBoard Publisher There’s somethin’ happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.There’s a man with a gun over there, tellin’ me I…
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Memories of Massacre
Historians Beverly Bond and Susan O’Donovan illuminate a tragic chapter in Memphis history Originally published March 3, 2020 By Aram Goudsouzian, for Chapter16.org On May…
Read More Memories of MassacreWhen a White Woman Accuses a Black Man
By Ellen Morris Prewitt He was a writer, a man I’ll call Jonathan. Jonathan was in writing group with me one hour before he was…
Read More When a White Woman Accuses a Black ManAnd what is it that America has failed to hear?
“White Allies: Show Yourselves” By Mark Fleischer, StoryBoard Publisher “White allies, show yourselves.” “White people need to be speaking to white people right now.“ On…
Read More And what is it that America has failed to hear?Jim Crow had no borders: The Negro Motorist Green-Book
Originally published in September 2018 By Mark Fleischer It was called The Mother Road. The Will Rogers Highway. The Main Street of America. It was…
Read More Jim Crow had no borders: The Negro Motorist Green-BookMemphis student: ‘George Floyd complied and he was still killed. What can we do at this point?’
Feature Image: In July 2019, black male students gather at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis to launch Superintendent Joris Ray’s initiative to increase…
Read More Memphis student: ‘George Floyd complied and he was still killed. What can we do at this point?’Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: June 2, 2020
Your correspondent reacts to the violence scarring our land by drafting a letter to the nation’s greatest civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
Read More Wayne Dowdy’s Dateline, Memphis: June 2, 2020The fire this time: Memphis’ response to police violence and civil unrest
“Do not gentrify protests or sanitize the fight for freedom,” warns Rev. Earle J. Fisher. “We cannot micromanage how people fight for their freedom.” Feature…
Read More The fire this time: Memphis’ response to police violence and civil unrestFor the fifth night, hundreds of Memphis take to the streets to protest the slaying of George Floyd
Feature image and all photos by Andrea Morales, MLK50‘s visuals editor. More demonstrations expected Monday as Mayor Strickland institutes a 10 p.m.-6 a.m. curfew. Sunday…
Read More For the fifth night, hundreds of Memphis take to the streets to protest the slaying of George Floyd‘Moments like now are why we teach’: Educators tackle tough conversations about race and violence — this time virtually
Feature Image: A protester outside of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn holds a sign after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a…
Read More ‘Moments like now are why we teach’: Educators tackle tough conversations about race and violence — this time virtually