'DEVASTATING TO SEE IT HAPPEN AGAIN'
After protesters had moved on, one family – the Webber family – remained at the courtyard of the National Civil Rights Museum last Saturday night. Their lingering was tethered to death of a family...
Look back on the 2019 Freedom Awards at The Orpheum Theatre with TSD freelance videographer Terrisa C. Mark.
I believe words matter...sometimes.
But sometimes, words are stupid.
For instance, remember when Republicans were upset because President Barack Obama wouldn’t say the words “radical Islamic terrorism” because Obama was kinda busy hunting down Osama Bin Laden and killing him?
That was...
“This is not the Memphis that Dr. King would have appreciated and talked about going into the promise land.”
Wham!
CNN analyst Angela Rye delivered that solid verbal punch during a city-sponsored MLK50 commemorative program at the Orpheum on Saturday. Just...
by Claudia Lauer --
PHILADELPHIA — The family of a Black man killed by Philadelphia police officers in a shooting caught on video had called for an ambulance to get him help with a mental health crisis, not for police...
by Terri Schlichenmeyer
Your hands are filthy.
Dirt lines every crease and covers much of your knuckles. It’s beneath your fingernails, all the way up to your wrists, soiling the edges of your sweatshirt and down your front. Yes, your hands are...
Regina King makes it easy to say “yes” to an assignment editor’s request for a reporter to join in on a national conference call and listen to an actress talk about her role in a movie.
I had already sounded...
Nate Boyer, the former Green Beret whose conversation with Colin Kaepernick literally inspired the former 49ers quarterback to kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality, wants to set the record straight once and for all.
This week, Boyer spoke...
by Dr. Earle J. Fisher --
On April 29, 2018, Jennifer Schulte called the police because she saw two African-American men using a public park charcoal grill in Oakland, Calif. Schulte, now referred to as “BBQ Becky,” saw black people...
More police officers are not the answer to combat crime in Memphis and Shelby County.
That was the consensus of panel members at UPtheVote901’s Crime and Public Safety Symposium Monday (Sept. 14). The unanimity was short-lived, however, as panel members...