Trayvon Martin celebrated his seventeenth birthday on February 5, 2012. A few weeks later an overzealous neighborhood watch captain fatally shot the teenager. The circumstances of...
Memphis holds an historic place in the minds of Americans for its role in the push for social justice. When Dr. King was gunned down at...
Jennifer Mooney and Bryon McCauley had been friends and colleagues for years. When COVID hit and George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in 2020,...
The familiar story of police beating and killing a Black man is dominating headlines this week as the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the Memphis Police...
Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis offered more evidence of his orchestrated effort to muzzle Black voices by refusing to allow his state’s high schools to add...
Tonya McGough moved effortlessly from one call to another. “We were discussing some spreadsheets and wrapping up our conversation,” she explained as she took the latest...
The nation paused today to remember Civil Rights leader who was born January 15, 1929. Rev. Al Sharpton hosted a breakfast with President Joe Biden serving...
A new sculpture honoring Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King was unveiled on Boston Commons. The couple met in Boston during their college years in the...
High school coaches around the country are often larger-than-life figures for the transformative influence they have on the teenagers who play on their teams, and nowhere...
The crunch of gravel announced a new customer. Brian Wright tugged his apron, pushed his cap back on his head with one hand and with the...