Laura Kebede-Twumasi

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM Donate A letter from our Civil Wrongs coordinator June 14, 2024 Dear Reader, When talking about youth crime in Memphis, few take the time to ask you

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM Donate A letter from our Civil Wrongs coordinator May 17, 2024 Dear Reader, There are some experiences and connections that cannot be replicated onl

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM Donate A letter from our Civil Wrongs coordinator April 5, 2024 Dear Reader, Our inaugural Civil Wrongs student exhibit “Look Back to Live Ahead” ha

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM Donate A letter from our Civil Wrongs coordinator February 9, 2024 Dear Reader, In journalism, sometimes the journey to telling a story can be just

Season 3 Is Launched! News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM Donate A letter from our Civil Wrongs coordinator January 17, 2024 Dear Reader, Slavery was still happening in eastern Arkansa

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM Donate A letter from our Civil Wrongs coordinator October 13, 2023 Dear Reader, During the Great Depression, eastern Arkansas was ground zero in a n

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM A letter from our Civil Wrongs Coordinator June 6, 2023 Dear Reader, You’ve heard about my University of Memphis class all semester. Today, you can

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM A letter from our Civil Wrongs Coordinator March 24, 2023 Dear Reader, An essential part of being an effective citizen in a democracy is knowing w

News & Updates MEMPHIS'S NONPROFIT NEWSROOM A letter from our Civil Wrongs coordinator February 3, 2023 Dear Reader, Last week, Dr. Tim Huebner visited my new journalism class. The distingui

News & Updates MEMPHIS' NONPROFIT NEWSROOM Donate A letter from our Civil Wrongs Coordinator October 21, 2022 Dear Readers, Disgust. Lament. Unjust. These one-word reflections came from people

“The cases in our region that we plan to investigate as part of the Civil Wrongs project were often trivialized by journalists at the time. Reporters often took officials’ statements without question while disregarding Black voices that dared to…

Dear Readers,The essence of our new "Civil Wrongs" project can be distilled down to one African word:Sankofa.It means to look back and retrieve what is at risk of being lost. The word comes from the Akan tribe of Ghana and embodies the importance…