Glenn Ramsey

LATEST ARTICLES BY Glenn Ramsey

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  Ghosts of Memphis’ slave past: Fallout over renaming Confederate parks

  February 25, 2013 By Glenn Ramsey

  The effort to rename Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, a memorial to the Confederate General, pre-war slave trader, and post-war founder of the Ku Klux Klan, recently began.

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  Smiley and West’s Poverty Tour: A call for unconditional brotherhood

  August 24, 2011 By Glenn Ramsey

  Tavis Smiley and Cornel West brought the last stop of their "Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience" to Memphis, Tennessee. The location was chosen in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s support for sanitation workers and...

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