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1 week ago |
mlk50.com | Ariel Cobbert
“Cameras gave to black folks, irrespective of our class, a means by which we could participate fully in the production of images.” Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. The New Press, 1995, p. 57What began as a small project to digitize my family’s archive as a favor — while peering into the records of ordinary Black life in South Mississippi — quickly became something else. It was a reckoning with my sense of self.
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1 week ago |
mlk50.com | Katherine Burgess
The Memphis City Council voted Tuesday to hold half of the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s $30 million funding for the upcoming fiscal year in a special fund that is restricted for public transportation. That money is to be released to MATA “upon presentation of (a) full financial audit alongside budget and operational plans for remaining funds.” Subscribe to MLK50’s newsletter and get Memphis-rooted news and insights right-sized for your neighborhood.
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3 weeks ago |
mlk50.com | Katherine Burgess
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A proposal by members of the Memphis City Council to slash the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s city funding in half in its upcoming budget would mean “pretty much ending public transit in Memphis,” John Lewis, interim CEO of MATA, told MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in an interview on Thursday. “The implications would be dire,” Lewis said.
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Mar 24, 2025 |
mlk50.com | Katherine Burgess
As Memphis’ new policing reform task force prepares for its second meeting, questions remain about the beliefs and motivations of the nine members and three liaisons tasked with proposing policy changes for the Memphis Police Department in the wake of a scathing U.S. Department of Justice report. Dubbed the “Integrity Policing Initiative,” according to internal emails, the group will meet monthly and has already met once behind closed doors.
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Feb 18, 2025 |
mlk50.com | Katherine Burgess
People with connections to the Memphis Police Department, clergy members, law professors, a mental health expert and a local organizer have been selected by the city of Memphis to join a new police reform task force that was announced after the city declined to enter a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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