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Producing radical journalism requires radical action. 

We know that to do the work we need to do, we have to take care of ourselves as we care for the community.

To that end, the staff of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is taking a break from March 14 to 22 to rest and regroup. We will return to form on March 23.

During our downtime, our...


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“lI ike our track record with the U.S. Supreme Court,” said House Majority Leader William Lamberth of a bill creating a new crime for immigrants to stay in Tennessee after receiving a final deportation order. Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout

This story has been republished with permission from Tennessee Lookout. Read the original story


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Jerricia Harris sits for a portrait at her home on Mar. 5. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America

Right before Jerricia Harris’ mother passed away, she had a vision.

“I see a big house coming your way soon,” she told Harris, a single mother of two who works at a Home Depot warehouse in East Memphis. Almost immediately after her mothe...


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Students at Memphis Business Academy organized a protest on Feb. 27 in support of their classmate, a junior named Yasser, who was detained by ICE a week earlier. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50

Hundreds of students at Memphis Business Academy marched outside their Frayser high school on Friday, chanting the name of a classmate who’d been detained by ICE a week earlier.


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Jesse Jackson gets into a car after a visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in 2018. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50

There are people whose stature and legacy loom so large that their name instantly conjures a powerful image in the minds of the public. The Rev. Jesse Jackson evokes many such images, all of historic import.

But one holds a personal connectio...


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