Wendy is the founding editor and publisher of MLK-50 Justice Through Journalism. The journalism she's chosen to do focuses on power and policy and poverty. I asked Wendy what she knew about Tyree Nichols. She said he was a 20-year-old young man who came here fairly recently from Sacramento, California. He loved his mother's cooking. That's why he came to Memphis in the first place.
Memphis braced for an explosive reaction to footage of the deadly police beating. It never came. Wendi C. Thomas of the nonprofit newsroom MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, wasn’t surprised: “I know this city.”
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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