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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Is Memphis Stuck in 1968?

Posted by John Branston on Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:00 AM

At a University of Memphis forum last week commemorating the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, a young man in the audience asked the panelists if Memphis was forever stuck in 1968.

The question was bundled with several others and didn't get answered very well, which was too bad because it was a good question, maybe the best of the day ...

Read the rest of John Branston's provocative City Beat column.

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