Justin Pearson, was one of two Black representatives ousted from the Tennessee legislature, speaks out before Thursday’s vote: the legislature ‘does not want diversity of people nor diversity of thought, and they do not want democracy.’
New Majority politics trounced a law-and-order scaremongering Shelby County, TN. This marks a major win for the national movement seeking criminal justice reform within the electoral arena.
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday it will be undertaking two important reviews: one related to the Memphis Police Department (MPD) and one that will examine the use of specialized units within law enforcement.
In Memphis, the existence of racial terror and trauma goes back as far as history can remember. Back to stolen lands of indigenous people and the stolen lives of African slaves. Back to deadly white race riots after the Civil War...
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"It's literally just being caught on camera," Sherman says. "We have experienced this same kind of violence over and over and over again in our communities."
Throughout his adult life, Martin Luther King Jr believed in striking down not only racial apartheid but class exploitation. That twin commitment was embodied in his final effort: the often-forgotten Poor People’s Campaign.
Karesha Manns is a McDonald's worker in Memphis, Tennessee, in the city where Dr. King was fighting for a living wage when he was assassinated. She makes just $10 an hour; nowhere near enough to cover basic necessities.
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