If you haven’t been following Joshua A. Vinson (@TheJoshAVinson) on Twitter, you need to. Vinson keeps UofM and sports fans up to date on everything you need to know about your favorite sports. A Chicago native, Vinson moved to Memphis in 2014 and majored in journalism. Since then, ...
The 12th Annual Ida B. Wells Conference took place from April 5 to 6, focusing on promoting discussion of philosophical issues arising from the African-American experience and to provide an environment in which to mentor undergraduates and graduate students. The conference was hosted on the University ...
In the spring of April 1969, 75 Black Student Association members at the University of Memphis staged a sit-in. The sit-in included 75 students surrounding then-university president C.C. Humphreys’ office. The events that transpired on that day were commemorated on April 12 of this ...
Local and national Civil Rights Movement leaders gathered alongside citizens for the 51st commemoration program for Martin Luther King Jr. at the National Civil Right Museum on April 4. Notable guests like some of King’s closest associates, including Rev. James Lawson, Rev. Jesse ...
A room full of school administrators, family and friends made their way into the lower level of the Fogelman Executive Conference Center auditorium April 2 to celebrate a former University of Memphis professor and director of the documentary “I Am†Tom Shadyac.  Dean ...
Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, plans to continue to create a safe haven for victims of sexual harassment and assault. She spoke in the University of Memphis Ballroom to close out the UofM’s celebration of Women’s History Month. Memphis mayoral ...
Rapper Nipsey Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, was killed on March 31 after a shooting at his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles that resulted in him and two others being transported to a local hospital. The victims were in stable condition upon hospital arrival, but Hussle died there. ...
Last year marked the 50 year anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike that resulted in a 65-day work stoppage by Memphis sanitation workers and the eventual assassination of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. To honor that anniversary, The Root’s ...
At 85 years old, activist and writer James Meredith is still on a mission. Martin Luther King credited Meredith when he said, “One day the South will recognize its real heroes. They will be the James Merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and ...
Vice president for the office of institutional equity and chief diversity officer at Duke University Benjamin Reese, Jr. talked to members of the University of Memphis community last week about his research on implicit bias. Reese defines implicit bias as the identification of images and ...
