MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Memphis, Tennessee
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 info@mlk50.com. A nonprofit news outlet focusing on the intersection of poverty, power and policy, examining the systems that make it hard for workers to make ...
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.”
An MLK50 celebration - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Jun 14, 2022 — Adrienne Johnson Martin is executive editor of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Contact her at adrienne.martin@mlk50.com. 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 in downtown.
MLK50 founder wins national journalism independence award
Apr 11, 2023 — The honor is given annually by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism ’s founding editor Wendi C. Thomas has been selected as winner of the 2023 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. MLK50 focuses on poverty, power and a range of public policy issues that affect local residents.
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MLK50 and its journalists continue to garner recognition for work that makes a meaningful, tangible difference in people’s lives. We are – as Dr. King was – committed to economic justice both in our journalism and in our employment practices. We’re aligned with the people he would have been aligned with had he not been assassinated more ...
MLK50’s Byhalia Pipeline stories win national award for …
Oct 14, 2021 — The 2020 graduate of Texas State University joined MLK50 last fall as a Report for America corps member. He quickly carved out an environmental justice beat. He focused on Plains All American Pipeline and Valero Energy Corporation’s plans to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline through majority Black Southwest Memphis against the wishes of residents.
Must-read stories from 2021 that made us proud
Dec 27, 2021 — We want our work to tell the stories of Memphis and the people who live here. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50. With every story, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism strives to reveal a bit of Memphis — who lives here, how you live, what you care about, what troubles you, what you’d like to see city leaders do.
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MLK50 receives second year of support from groundbreaking equity funder
May 25, 2021 — The Ford Foundation has been a key partner in the REJ Fund, committing $6 million over three years. “Philanthropy is past due in supporting the bold leadership of nonprofit journalism. To be clear – we can’t afford to scale inequality by only funding news organizations serving predominantly white Americans at scale.
Profiting from the Poor - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Profiting from the Poor: Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and Debt Collection. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare sued more than 8,300 people – many of them low-income – over a five-year period for hospital bills they could not afford to pay. In 2019, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, working with ProPublica, documented how the nonprofit’s ...