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Tag: economic justice

  • Redlining Memphis

    Last week, NPR aired a report about the way one Mid-South Bank has been using discriminatory lending practices against African American borrowers. The finding against Bancorp South by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was published on June 29th of this year. The fact that this news slipped by is unsettling. The only local news…

  • Parks, Progress, & Politics

    I’ve been struggling to organize my thoughts since last week’s last week’s hasty action by the Memphis City Council regarding zoo parking. But I don’t want to get into the specifics of the issue. I think others have captured what’s going on there better, and with more detail than I could. The events of last…

  • Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice…

    Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Forty-Five years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet as he stood on the balcony…