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In 2017, Wendi C. Thomas—a longtime reporter in Memphis—launched MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit news outlet, to investigate issues of economic inequality that she saw being overlooked in the city. The site was named for the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in the city, which was coming up in 2018. […]
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