MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Memphis, Tennessee
Methodist Hospital Suspends Debt Collection Lawsuits Amid Furor Over Suing Its Own Employees. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power and public policy — issues about which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cared deeply. Contact us at [email protected].
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It’s been 4 years since MLK50 was born; lessons from the founder …
Apr 4, 2021 · We’ve forced institutions to change policy and raise workers’ pay.We’ve increased transparency, elevated the civic conversation around wages, rattled the status quo and of course, broken news. And now, we are 4. My initial plan was for MLK50 to be a one-year project that would end April 4, 2018. The headline on our first story: “The case for justice through journalism.”
Meet the MLK50 team - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Email her at [email protected]. Wendi C. Thomas, Investigative Editor & Publisher Emerita: Wendi C. Thomas founded MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in 2017 as a one-year project that grew into a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on poverty, power and public policy in Memphis. Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50 Investigative Editor and Publisher Emerita.
MLK50 receives $1 million grant from MacArthur Foundation
Aug 5, 2024 · MLK50: Justice Through Journalism has been awarded a three-year, $1 million general operating grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to increase its editorial, operational and business strength and capacity. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “supports creative people, effective institutions, and ...
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An MLK50 celebration - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Jun 14, 2022 · And to do the Wobble in appreciation. Adrienne Johnson Martin is co-executive director of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Contact her at [email protected]. Tagged: Downtown from the editor hidden. Some of the MLK50: Justice Through Journalism staff, past and present, at our fifth anniversary party on June 11, 2022 at Brickwood Hall ...
Investigations Archives - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Feb 22, 2024 · MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power and public policy — issues about which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cared deeply.
Memphis Archives - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Jan 3, 2024 · We see you, Memphis. by Andrea Morales and Adrienne Johnson Martin April 4, 2024. With each anniversary, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism takes a victory lap. After all, we’re an organization built despite doubters and forged by resilience. That’s something to celebrate. Yet, it’s not all about us. Part of our mission is to bear witness ...
MLK50 receives $2M grant from Ford Foundation
Jan 26, 2023 · Investment allows nonprofit newsroom to create ‘even more firm foundation’. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism announced today that it has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team. The investment will be used to strengthen the digital news operation’s fundraising capacity and to ...