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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

All posts tagged "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."

Criminal Justice and Policing

Half A Century Later, Larry Payne’s Family Still Fights For Justice

Police killing of Black teen is 'a pain that will never go away'

Laura Kebede-TwumasiApril 1, 2022

The Institute: In Depth

Remembering Adjua Naantaanbuu, A ‘Hidden Hero’ of the Civil Rights Movement

A photo in a $50,000 city exhibit misidentifies her, adding to her obscurity

Marc PerrusquiaAugust 17, 2021

Dr. Jerry Francisco, a resident of The Village of Germantown, stands in front of the facility on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, where four people have died. Francisco, the former longtime medical examiner for Shelby County who performed autopsies on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Dr. Jerry Francisco, a resident of The Village of Germantown, stands in front of the facility on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, where four people have died. Francisco, the former longtime medical examiner for Shelby County who performed autopsies on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

The Pandemic

“It’s like everybody here is in jail” – long-term care residents discuss life amid COVID

Three residents inside a COVID-plagued retirement home discuss their hopes, fears and worries

Marc PerrusquiaMay 22, 2020

Legend has it the FBI sabotaged Martin Luther King Jr.'s last demonstration, a mass march down Beale Street that erupted in rioting and looting. A new book suggests civil rights photographer Ernest Withers of Memphis, an informant for the FBI, may have been compensated to disrupt King’s march, a theory that appears to lack credible substantiation. (Courtesy of Preservation and Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis – Press Scimitar collection)

Legend has it the FBI sabotaged Martin Luther King Jr.'s last demonstration, a mass march down Beale Street that erupted in rioting and looting. A new book suggests civil rights photographer Ernest Withers of Memphis, an informant for the FBI, may have been compensated to disrupt King’s march, a theory that appears to lack credible substantiation. (Courtesy of Preservation and Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis – Press Scimitar collection)

Watchdog

facts dispute new Book’s old Conspiracy theory about MLK’s Memphis march

There's no evidence MLK's last march down Beale Street was disrupted by paid saboteurs - or by photographer Ernest Withers.

Marc PerrusquiaApril 4, 2019