Archive | Memphis

An all-time record for the city.

"We have three more months to go in the year, we could break 300 homicides."

Over 2,000 arrests across the country.

Here is the latest innovation of law enforcement in the overwhelmingly black city of Memphis.

"Shootings in New York City have doubled every week for the last three weeks."

Will the Founding Fathers be next?

Seven violent cities will receive a surge of federal aid to fight crime.

Now the city has to figure out what to do with the graves.

The dog had a bad experience with a black.

They also have to give him $160, 000 in back pay and benefits.

He was wanted for murder and auto theft.

Oberlin College hit with $44 million in damages.

Police say he rammed their vehicles and exited his car with a weapon.

Case could have ramifications for dissident government employees.

Destroying Confederate memorials is “about restoring the dignity of black taxpayers."

Book identifies the symptoms but not the cause.

The city allegedly violated several laws when they sold the park and statue.

The women were treated differently because they acted differently.

But St. Louis’s is higher.

“After Ferguson, only a fool would start, finance or insure a business in a black neighborhood.”

Sales benefit the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Selling parks to a non-profit that removed the statues has cost Memphis $250,000.

Customers and employees fight it out.

Bill allows the state to use eminent domain retroactively to protect parks.

The Trump administration may be reversing the "Ferguson effect."

No violence from SJWs at protest against removal of Confederate statues.

The city ignored the Historical Commission’s denial of their petition to remove the statues.

They had shown it every summer for 34 years.

Race of customers unspecified.

More than 100 gunshots disrupted the vigil.

The accused was arrested for burglary last year.

James Edwards reports on the lawlessness.

White man told "you're not supposed to be here" before being severely beaten.

One analysis finds it may help explain a rise in crime.

The officer may have interrupted a small drug deal.

They don't think General Forrest is being exhumed quickly enough.

James Edwards report on rally in Memphis.

They may also sell his statue.

“Which African-American wants to have a picnic in the shadow of Nathan Bedford Forrest?”

Mob attacks black man who tried to help a frightened white woman to her car.

Black officers were promoted under to a court order that has now been overturned.

Conservative site has tried to catalog and characterize every single one.

He was just ordered to pay $60 a week to support 2-year-old Ja'Voin.

"Had I had been armed we would have had a lot of kids laying in the Bellevue street."

100 young blacks had been kicked out of a pizza restaurant just before the attack.

Perps have long criminal records.

By a friend . . . with one of the guns he posed with.

Claims are concentrated in an area where group encouraged Pigford fraud.

Living the American Dream.

Race unspecified, of course.

New, innocuous names for Confederate, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan B. Forrest parks.

Even the AARP has noticed--but is mum on the real problem.

"As far as racial trust goes, I don't think we've improved much since the 1970s."

Alternate headline: 25 Cities with Heavily Non-white Populations.

In many, violence is up and the police force is shrinking.

Just another afternoon at the nail salon.

Whites fled from a similar mixing 38 years ago.

This article stupidly--incredibly stupidly--avoids race.

Whites ask blacks for forgiveness.

What do they all have in common?

17 prior convictions!

It must have been really good cake...

Now here's a good argument against bans on saggy pants.

Surprise: 320 of those metro areas are still majority white.

Majority white county doesn't want to consolidate with city's mostly black schools.

20 percent of girls are pregnant at a school that is 98 percent black.

And what could these neighborhoods possibly have in common . . . ?

Black candidate hopes blacks will look at race when deciding whom to vote for.

It's just "wrong" for Tennessee not to have even one black in Congress.

Black former mayor resigned under a cloud; now campaigning under a cloud.

White congressman's district was created to elect blacks to Congress.

Detroit tops the list.

Memphis city council wants "predatory" lenders to pay for lost tax revenue.

Section 8 housing brings crime and violence to the suburbs.

Behavior at all-black high school leaves much room for improvement.