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Thomas: MLK's Fight for Economic Justice in Memphis Means Changing "Systems and Institutions"

Christopher Blank/WKNO-FM

The journalist and occasional provocateur Wendi C. Thomas recently penned an article for the Christian Science Monitor about the ongoing economic challenges facing the City of Memphis fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. She says that while poverty-fighting initiatives here can make a difference, laws must be changed at the state and federal level to address longstanding inequity.

Thomas is currently editor of the MLK50 Justice Through Journalism Initiative at MLK50.com. The website hosts an ongoing conversation about our city’s challenges with race and poverty.

Below are additional links mentioned in this interview.

MICAH: Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope.

Slingshot Memphis: Finding solutions to poverty through investment principles.

LITE Memphis: Let's Innovate Through Education

Reporting from the gates of Graceland to the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, Christopher has covered Memphis news, arts, culture and politics for more than 20 years in print and on the radio. He is currently WKNO's News Director and Senior Producer at the University of Memphis' Institute for Public Service Reporting. Join his conversations about the Memphis arts scene on the WKNO Culture Desk Facebook page.