Several communities have closed select streets to automobiles, and advocates hope that the pandemic may prompt long-term positive changes in how we use public space for health and fitness.
Micah 6 is just the right size to answer needs in our community. We're not so big that we can’t adjust our focus because we’re writing change proposals to our large grantors, but we’re not so small that we can’t think beyond a few families that we serve.
The Memphis Media Collaborative sent a COVID-19 information needs survey to residents across Memphis. Here are the most common questions and answers.
“I think we just have to call the thing a thing, and figure out how to deal with it and be bold.”
Shahidah Jones sits down with High Ground to discuss the injustices of cash bail, disinvestment and over-policing in Black communities, and the official Black Lives Matter Memphis chapter's strategies and solutions for divesting law enforcement and reinvesting in the people.
Steven Penkevich shares the story of how a generous donor and Reader’s World see books as an important way to support Black Lives Matter and promote anti-racism.
Currently, 33 of the 44 vendors have returned for full service for the gradual reopening of the Flint Farmers' Market. Since June 2, the Farmers' Market has been operating on Tuesdays and Thursdays in June from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. following full social distance guidelines under stage four of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan Safe Start Plan.
It's not fair that we media entities are able to show our hands bloody with fact, without ever telling anyone how deep it runs and how there’s a whole delta for deaths like these. This isn’t some bubbling creek of happenstance death.
Victims of police killings are often criminalized. For Sydney G. James, there is no justification. So she decided to use her art to be a voice for her disgust at yet another slaying of a Black person at the hands of those hired to protect and serve them.
Redevelopment is happening all around the Vollintine-Evergreen community. In the midst of change, residents are fighting to ensure they have a say in how their neighborhood takes shape.
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