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We are committed to eliminating racial injustice and socioeconomic inequality
As of Dec. 1, 2021, donations to MLK50: Justice Through Journalism will no longer be accepted via this website. To give, please click here.
MLK50 is a different kind of newsroom.
Our nonprofit news outlet in Memphis focuses on the intersection of poverty, power and policy. We examine the systems that make it hard for
workers to make ends meet and interrogate those who profit from the
status quo.
We launched on April 4, 2017, as a one-year project to reckon with what Memphis and America had done with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s sacrifice. We have evolved into an award-winning nonprofit digital news site. MLK50 and its journalists continue to garner recognition for work that makes a meaningful, tangible difference in people’s lives.
We are – as Dr. King was – committed to economic justice both in our journalism and in our employment practices. We’re aligned with the people he would have been aligned with had he not been assassinated more then 50 years ago.
MLK50 is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News and follows that organization’s ethics policies. We are also a member of Local Independent Online News publishers.
As a nonprofit, we will avoid accepting donations from anonymous sources, and we will not accept donations from government entities, political parties, elected officials or candidates actively seeking public office. We will not accept donations from sources who present a conflict of interest with our work or compromise our independence.
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