You should go to the museum. It’s hardly a whitewashing. It’s quite a bit more confrontational than the King museum in Atlanta...which is appropriate.

Memphis tried to ignore the fact that the assassination happened here for over a decade and continually got assailed for not memorializing King appropriately, as they should have. Then, city leaders, philanthropists, and, uh, King’s family, decided that a museum honoring his death and the persistent struggle for human…

Because it’s a hot tagline and it mimics the tone of other , better writers, like Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Never heard anyone say that either, except Jacqueline Smith, and I have no qualms with her saying it. Also, Atlanta has a museum dedicated to King. It’s pretty fucking huge and unmissable if you’ve ever been there. The National Civil Rights Museum is about the struggle for civil rights (thus the name), and honoring…

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the city was blamed for his death for about 30 years. Despite the author’s assumptions, Memphians have never forgotten the Poor People’s Campaign, how King’s message had expanded, and exactly why he was here in the first place, because the conditions that set the stage…