Thumbnail: The new committee on reimaging policing has the opportunity to be the change agent that Memphis has needed. It requires them to do more than rely on the usual suspects for ideas, data, and recommendations. Recent research by Prof. Barry Friedman and commentaries by consultant David Eichenthal are must reads for the committee to get off on the right foot.
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Thumbnail: Donald Trump’s latest dog whistle with its underlying implications about the threats to the suburbs by Black and brown people fails on the facts: people of color are making up more and more of the suburbs and life goes on.
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Thumbnail: All the popular talking points about closing the African American wealth gap would not result by doing any of them.
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Thumbnail: Racism can rear its head in the most mundane of situations for African Americans. Even a Memphis family in Destin is not immune from racist encounters. My memories of the Jim Crow South indicate how deeply engrained racism is in our culture.
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Thumbnail: It’s incredulous that we are still working to shake off the vestiges of the Confederacy and incredulous even more that some fanatically hold up traitors who fought to destroy the United States so they could own human beings as property. Southern states not only lost the war but by clinging to racist myths of the Confederacy, they also sacrificed the future. In light of the continuing discussions about Confederate statues and the Confederacy itself, I’m posting this column written for MLK50.com on July 27, 2017.
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Thumbnail: Making the most of the wake-up call from protests following George Floyd’s murder and developing a plan for Memphis that is about action, not more talk, to attack racism, lack of opportunity, and inequality in an authentically Memphis way.
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As I blogged recently, there’s no research...
Read MoreThe victimhood of older white men is apparently a fixture of our age – all the way from Sevier County, Tennessee, to the nation’s capital. years of dismissing white privilege and...
Read MoreCircle your calendar for a special August 14 policy briefing by Dr. Andre Perry, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. His...
Read MoreSome years ago, my late daughter Emily was looking for a church to join. Our family had long followed the Rev. Frank McRae because of his message of social justice and his...
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by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →
