Memphis

MLK’s economic ‘radicalism’ embraced at massive march and rally in Memphis

April 4, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

There was a call to register and vote in 2018 to remove the “exploiters” in the White House and the Congress.

Fifty years after Memphis, sanitation workers still struggle

March 29, 2018 By Pete Levine

People's World to join tens of thousands in Memphis to commemorate Dr. King and to promote today's ongoing struggle to achieve his dream.

Today in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember

April 4, 2013 By Special to People’s World

An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.

Memphis Bus Riders Union rolls into summer

June 25, 2012 By James Raines

The Memphis Bus Riders Union was created to "raise the level of service provided by the public transit system as well as ensuring greater accountability over policies and practices."

Occupy Memphis: Sixteen days and counting

November 1, 2011 By James Raines

Occupy Memphis features several caucuses devoted to women's rights, diversity, homelessness, LGBT, anti-Capitalism, and Agnosticism/Atheism. The protests have been peaceful and widely supported by the citizens of the Mid-South.