Emmett Till poses with his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. In 1995, while visiting
relatives, Emmett Till, 14, was lynched in Money, Miss. after being accused
In a history-making election Aug. 4, residents voted Steve Mulroy to the post of
Shelby County District Attorney, the first Democrat in decades to hold
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Our Memphis-based nonprofit newsroom is growing. We launched five years ago with
just $3,000 donated by the founder’s friends and family. Today, we have
Stephanie Newell freezes the free squash from her community garden to cook for
her family throughout the year. Photo by Ariel Cobbert for MLK50 Stephanie
We have often discussed DePaul University as a school with a long record of speech suppression, including cancel campaigns targeting journalists. Now the students are pushing to ban a new student g…