MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Memphis, Tennessee
WEBMethodist Hospital Suspends Debt Collection Lawsuits Amid Furor Over Suing Its Own Employees. A nonprofit news outlet focusing on the intersection of poverty, power and policy, examining the systems that make it hard for workers to make ends meet.
Charity Scott joins MLK50 as managing editor
WEB7 hours ago · 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 ...
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WEBMLK50 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 ...
Meet the MLK50 team - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
WEBEmail her at adrienne.martin@mlk50.com. Wendi C. Thomas, Investigative Editor & Publisher Emerita: Wendi C. Thomas founded MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in 2017 as a one-year project that grew into a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on poverty, power and public policy in Memphis. Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50 Editor and Publisher.
Tyre Nichols’ family looks ahead to the state’s criminal case and …
WEB1 day ago · Tadarrius Bean (center) walks into the federal court building on Sept. 26. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50. Two of the former officers that stood trial – Tadarrius Bean and Justin Smith – were only convicted of witness tampering for trying to cover-up the beating; they both were acquitted on the more serious civil rights charges.
MLK50’s Byhalia Pipeline stories win national award for …
WEBOct 14, 2021 · The national award “honors reporting that brought new understanding to an issue or topic affecting people or communities that are historically underrepresented, disadvantaged or marginalized, resulting in impactful change."
MLK50 receives $100K grant from Public Welfare Foundation
WEBJan 30, 2024 · MLK50: Justice Through Journalism has been awarded a one-year, $100,000 project grant from Public Welfare Foundation to deepen our public safety reporting and community engagement efforts. “Public Welfare Foundation invests in ecosystems of change in the places we work to catalyze transformative justice,” said Thena Robinson Mock, vice president of programs at Public Welfare Foundation.
Investigations Archives - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
WEBFeb 22, 2024 · 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.
MPD’s arrest practices pose troubling questions following Tyre …
WEB4 days ago · This story has been republished with permission from The Institute of Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. Read the original story here. Emmitt Martin seethed with anger the night he and four other Memphis Police Department officers allegedly beat Tyre Nichols to death.
MLK50 receives $2M grant from Ford Foundation
WEBJan 26, 2023 · Investment allows nonprofit newsroom to create ‘even more firm foundation’. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism announced today that it has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team. The investment will be used to strengthen the digital news operation’s fundraising capacity and to ...