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Charity Scott joins MLK50 as managing editor
We’re happy to announce that Charity Scott has joined MLK50: Justice Through Journalism as our managing editor. Scott started ...
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Tyre Nichols’ family looks ahead to the state’s criminal case and their $550 million civil suit against the Memphis Police Department
During closing arguments of the federal criminal trial for three of the five former Memphis police officers charged with ...
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MPD’s arrest practices pose troubling questions following Tyre Nichols’ death
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The neglect of the bus goes round and round
Justice Through Journalism’s approach to writing about poverty: We investigate it as though it were a crime. Poverty ...
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MATA needs steady funding. What would it take to get it?
Sammie Hunter, 53, (left) stands at a bus stop on East Brooks Road while waiting on a transfer during his commute home in August 2017. The trip home is ...
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Riding the line: Memphis and the need for public transportation
Memphis and the need for public transportation Years of underfunding have brought the Memphis Area Transit Authority to the ...
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MATA officials spent years asking for more funding
The Board of the Memphis Area Transit Authority voted last month to take its operating budget from the $85 million needed to continue current operations ...
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MATA cuts 5 routes, says issues with city funding could lead to ‘no buses running the streets’
A rider loads on to bus route 52 on a rainy morning earlier this month. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 The city of Memphis ...