Community News
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Tennessee schools could remove students with disabilities from classroom before assessment under proposed rule change
By Melissa Brown | June 18, 2025, 4:28pm CDT Tennessee may soon make it easier for schools to temporarily remove some students with disabilities from their classrooms. The proposed rule being considered by the Tennessee Board of Education would amend existing guidelines to allow schools to move a student deemed a “disruptive force” to a more restrictive environment before…
Memphis NAACP leader says proposed SNAP, Medicaid cuts ‘a people issue,’ not partisan one
Jack Armstrong June 11, 2025 The Memphis branch of the NAACP voiced severe concerns over potential cuts to food stamps and Medicaid at a press conference on June 10. Branch leaders urged Tennesseans to call their senators and ask them to vote against the spending cuts. “This is a fight about all the citizens of Tennessee, from Memphis to Johnson City,”…
Memphis Pride Parade rescheduled: See when it will roll along Beale Street
John Beifuss June 10, 2025 The 50th annual Memphis Pride Parade has been rescheduled for noon June 21 in the Beale Street Entertainment District. An annual celebration of what organizers call “the vibrant spectrum of the Mid-South LGBTQ+ family,” the parade had been scheduled for June 7, but was canceled due to rainstorms with lightning.…
Foundations donate $1.5M to help restore historic Black church in Memphis gutted by arson
Updated 2:14 PM CDT, May 29, 2025 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that played an important role in the civil rights movement. Clayborn Temple had been undergoing a yearslong renovation when someone intentionally set a fire inside the church in the early hours…
Memphis faith-based leader steps up as Job Corps nationwide pause leaves thousands of students with uncertain future
Bishop Kip Douglas is finalizing documents to launch Pillars of Purpose, a nonprofit to fill the void after thousands of students are sent home by Job Corps Author: Desmond Nugent Published: 7:19 PM CDT June 3, 2025 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Thousands of at-risk youth and young adults across the country could soon be without educational and vocational…
NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk’s supercomputer in Memphis
The civil rights group alleges that the project’s pollution could be harmful to nearby residents. May 30, 2025, 4:45 PM CDT By Bracey Harris and Jon Gerberg Local regulators should immediately stop Elon Musk’s supercomputer project from operating in South Memphis because it’s out of compliance with environmental rules, the NAACP wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Shelby County…
YMCA summer food program offering free meals to kids
FOX13 Memphis News Staff May 23, 2025 MEMPHIS, Tenn. – For some families, school is often a place not just for getting an education, but also, a hot meal. The YMCA of Memphis and the Mid-South can help you keep your kids fed this summer. The YMCA summer food program is providing a free 7-day…
Our Rescue and We Fight Monsters partner to build “Hope House” in Memphis, TN
Our Rescue May 22, 2025, 14:01 ET In a united effort to support survivors of sex trafficking in the U.S., Our Rescue and We Fight Monsters have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to renovate and complete construction of a new “Hope House” – a Recovery House for Survivors at 1192 Melrose Street in Memphis, Tennessee. The facility will serve as a…
State Rep. Justin Pearson and community leaders demand action against xAI project, air pollution in Memphis
State Representative Justin Pearson called out multiple City of Memphis and Shelby County officials over their silence amid xAI project. Author: Desmond Nugent Published: 9:32 PM CDT May 9, 2025 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — State Representative Justin Pearson is sounding the alarm once again, this time with renewed urgency, as fellow lawmakers and community advocates join him to…
The Memphis church pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days suffers a devastating fire
By ADRIAN SAINZ and TRAVIS LOLLER Updated 6:10 PM CDT, April 28, 2025 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage. “The inside is a total loss, but we’re still somewhat hopeful that some of the…
Local Organizations
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Just City - Inspired by the work of the Shelby County Public Defender’s Office, Just City was founded in 2015 by a group of activists attorneys, and civic leaders.
Mid-South Peace & Justice Center - The Mid-South Peace & Justice Center is a multi-issue, multi-race organization whose mission is to engage, organize, and mobilize communities to realize social justice through nonviolent action. We work to educate and train new community leaders to lead campaigns for racial, economic, environmental and social justice.
Memphis Grassroots Organizations Coalition - A coalition of organizations and individual members dedicated to dismantling oppression and injustice in the city of Memphis.
Memphis United - Memphis United is a coalition of grassroots organizations, community groups, and Memphis residents formed to confront structural and institution racism.
Center for Transforming Communities - Center for Transforming Communities is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the holistic transformation of neighborhoods and communities in and around Memphis, Tennessee. We were established in 2009, but trace our history through a number of past organizations, including CONECT, Inc.
Choose 901 - Choose901 is a movement of passionate Memphians who want to invest and enjoy their lives in the Bluff City. These are the people who know and believe that Memphis isn’t becoming a good city, but is already a great city. A real city with problems that need to be solved. A growing city with opportunities to be seized. A fun city with so much to enjoy. Choose901 exists to share these great things and introduce these great people to each other while being a positive megaphone to the rest of the world.
MICAH - MICAH (Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope) is a coalition of community and faith-based organizations joining together to give a more powerful voice for issues of justice in our city. Our current platform concentrates on three pillar issues, economic equity, education equity, and race & class equity in the justice system.
Juice Orange Mound - Our mission is to develop and advance the self-reliance of Orange Mound and the larger community by building capacity and engagement among citizens and businesses
Memphis Artists for Change - We are an artist-powered community and economic development organization. Memphis Artists for Change creates opportunities for community-sanctioned change in underserved neighborhoods. Tameka Daniel founded MAC in 2012 with the goal of empowering communities to embrace their identity. She realized that the artists in her network could lead community service initiatives.
Upcoming Events
2023 Beerman Award for Social Justice in Action Celebration
The Leonard I. Beerman Foundation for Peace and Justice honors the memory of Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman (1921–2014), a courageous and compassionate religious leader, social activist, and champion of peace and human rights. The Foundation recognizes and supports organizations, programs and activities similarly dedicated to improving the human condition.
I Can’t Breathe
A night of entertainment involving the discussion of racial inequality and the increase of awareness and knowledge related to the topic.
UW Public Lectures: From Artistic Joy to Collective Wellness
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. Bamuthi’s opera libretto, We Shall Not Be Moved, was named one of 2017’s “Best Classical Music Performances” by The New York Times. His evening length work created…
UW Public Lectures: Building Scyborgs: An Evening on Decolonization
Join scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang as he shares stories about decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future and speculative somewheres. How do we bend our own complicity in colonial institutions to forward Indigenous, Black, queer, and Other futures locally and globally? Come ready to consider your own scyborg powers and plans. K. Wayne…
UW Public Lectures: Tina Campt
Dr. Tina Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. She began her career as a historian of modern Germany, earning a Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. She is one of the founding scholars of Black European Studies,…
“UW Public Lectures: Disability Justice: Centering Intersectionality and Liberation”
Joining another event in the ‘UW Public Lecture Series’ is Patty Berne, Cofounder and Executive Artistic Director of ‘Sins Invalid’, to discuss the importance of intersectionality in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other. Ms. Berne’s work creates a framework and practice of disability justice, which centers…
UW Public Lectures: An Evening with Alice Wong
This is another event in the ‘UW Public Lecture Series’. Alice Wong will be remotely joining moderated converstation addressing topics important to her work in raising the visibility of disabled people. Alice Wong is a disabled activist, writer, media maker, and consultant. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online…
RISE UP: Be the Domino
Join us at our 2nd annual Rise Up Conference. Spend the day with us as we tackle issues related to racial and social justice with empathy and respect to all.
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