The National Civil Rights Museum will honor former Vice President Joe Biden and Rainbow/PUSH founder Rev. Jesse Jackson along with Memphis philanthropist J.R. “Pitt” Hyde at the annual Freedom Awards Oct. 17.

2. MLK-Inspired - Thursday, May 3, 2018

What today is known as the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis was born out of the city’s fallout from the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination on April 4, 1968.

3. MLK50 Observances Come With Appeals, Memories - Friday, April 6, 2018

The way National Civil Rights Museum president Terri Lee Freeman described it as the MLK50 commemorations began this week, the church bells would cascade when they rang Wednesday, April 4, starting at 6:01 p.m. – the moment Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot 50 years ago.

4. Comcast NBCUniversal To Livestream MLK50 Events - Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Comcast NBCUniversal is serving as the media and technology sponsor for the National Civil Rights Museum’s MLK50 Commemoration and will livestream the day’s events for free.

Throughout the day on Wednesday, April 4, Comcast NBCUniversal’s livestream will provide viewers around the world with front-row access to the museum’s lineup of speakers, performances and tributes from civil rights leaders. The livestream will be broadcast through Comcast NBCUniversal’s award-winning “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement” platform at CivRightsVoices.com and on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

5. NCRM Admission Free Monday Thanks to FedEx - Monday, April 2, 2018

Admission to the National Civil Rights Museum will be free on Monday, April 2, in honor of MLK50, the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination at the Lorraine Motel in 1968.

6. Children’s Central - Thursday, March 22, 2018

The first career choice a child has in mind isn’t always the right one. Stephanie Butler, who today is the new executive director of the Children’s Museum of Memphis, thought she wanted to be a doctor.

7. Last Word: Forrest and Slavery, The Tariff Blitz and Angus McEachran - Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The report on poverty in Memphis over the last 50 years is on its way to a Greater Memphis Chamber breakfast meeting Thursday. And Terri Lee Freeman, the president of the National Civil Rights Museum and Elena Delavega, the University of Memphis lead researcher of the report, say their message is that as goes Memphis in this regard so goes the nation. And if employers start with lower pay at hiring with percentage raises across the board they feed the racial income gap and bonuses do as well.

8. Freeman: Wide Income, Poverty Gaps Persist in Shelby County - Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The president of the National Civil Rights Museum says the national attention that comes with the 50th anniversary of the 1968 sanitation workers strike and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination can be a guide for the nation as well as Memphis.

9. Last Word: The Ballot, By the River and The 'Good Ship Ineptitude' - Friday, March 2, 2018

What blooms before spring and after the rains? It is the quest. The quest that must be declared over and over again – in the confidence of homes and the parlors of supporters – across kitchen tables and behind the soundproof doors of conference rooms -- the patios where supporters have gathered and the rented spaces where campaigns are located. Usually with food. Perhaps a corner table or possibly a catered buffet. Maybe just coffee.

10. Third Memphis TEDx Event Set for Jan. 6 - Tuesday, December 19, 2017

When Hardy Farrow takes the stage in the Halloran Centre at The Orpheum Theatre in a few weeks, it will be to present his argument about poverty and what to do about it.

Farrow – who founded LITE Memphis, which stands for Let’s Innovate Through Education – is one of the speakers who’ll be presenting talks Jan. 6 at TEDxMemphis, which has as its theme this year “The Slant.” The conference will be a chance for speakers like Farrow to share their perspective – their slant, as it were – on the world around them.

11. Holder, Branch to Keynote April Observances of King Anniversary - Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and author and historian Taylor Branch will be the featured speakers at two days of panel discussions and keynote speeches in April as the National Civil Rights Museum marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

12. MLK Symposium Scheduled in Memphis on Death Anniversary - Thursday, November 23, 2017

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – The National Civil Rights Museum and the University of Memphis are planning a two-day symposium about civil rights and economic equality on the 50th anniversary of the killing of Martin Luther King Jr., with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder scheduled as a keynote speaker.

13. Making Best Better - Thursday, November 9, 2017

More than a decade ago, Carolyn Hardy was a vice president with the Coors Brewing Co. in Memphis when she attended the Leadership Development Intensive (LDI), a personal leadership training ground stretched across 3 1/2 days.

14. Barber Brings Moral Mondays Push to Memphis - Wednesday, October 18, 2017

The North Carolina minister leading the national “Moral Mondays” movement came to Memphis Monday, Oct. 16, with a call to join a “poor people’s campaign” movement and sign pledge cards that include being “willing to take direct action including civil disobedience.”

15. Moral Mondays Organized by Religious Leaders Who Talk of ‘Fragmentation’ - Tuesday, October 3, 2017

A group of 25 local religious leaders plan three “Moral Mondays” gatherings over the next six months to discuss social justice issues before the April observances of the 50th anniversary of the sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

16. King’s Daughter Among Freedom Award Recipients - Saturday, August 19, 2017

The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a groundbreaking South African jazz trumpeter and composer are the recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum’s annual Freedom Awards.

17. NCRM Names Trio Of Freedom Award Honorees - Friday, August 18, 2017

The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a groundbreaking South African jazz trumpeter and composer are the recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum’s annual Freedom Awards.

18. Orpheum Adds Four New Board Members - Saturday, August 5, 2017

The Orpheum Theatre Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theatre and the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education, has announced the addition of four new members to its board of directors: Dr. Noelle Chaddock, associate dean of academic affairs for diversity and inclusivity at Rhodes College; Terri Lee Freeman, president of the National Civil Rights Museum; Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller, president of LeMoyne-Owen College; and Brian Sullivan, principal/CEO of Sullivan Branding.

19. Orpheum Adds Four New Board Members - Tuesday, August 1, 2017

The Orpheum Theatre Group, the nonprofit organization that operates the historic Orpheum Theatre and the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education, has announced the addition of four new members to its board of directors: Dr. Noelle Chaddock, associate dean of academic affairs for diversity and inclusivity at Rhodes College; Terri Lee Freeman, president of the National Civil Rights Museum; Dr. Andrea Lewis Miller, president of LeMoyne-Owen College; and Brian Sullivan, principal/CEO of Sullivan Branding.

20. LaRose Students Get Protest Primer on King Anniversary - Thursday, April 6, 2017

A group of 48 third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at LaRose Elementary School made signs and walked a picket line around their school campus Tuesday, April 4, as part of a lesson about protests on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination that drew five Memphis police cars.

21. Memphis Women's March Draws Thousands Downtown - Saturday, January 21, 2017

Several thousand people marched Saturday, Jan. 21, from the D'Army Bailey Shelby County Courthouse to the National Civil Rights Museum in one of several dozen “Women’s Marches” across the nation including the largest gathering in Washington D.C. the day after President Donald Trump began his term of office.

22. Events - Friday, January 20, 2017

Playhouse on the Square will present the regional premiere of “Rock of Ages” Friday, Jan. 20, through Feb. 12 at 66 S. Cooper St. Visit playhouseonthesquare.org.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and the Memphis Office of Youth Services will hold the first event in the “Hear Me Out” Youth Forum Series Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to noon at Greater New Liberty Missionary Baptist Church, 250 E. Raines Road. The series allows youths ages 14-21 the opportunity to share concerns and offer solutions to issues they’ve faced or observed to a panel of city leaders. Others forums will be held Jan. 28, Feb. 4 and Feb. 11 at different locations. Registration required; visit cityofmemphisyouth.org.

23. Rhodes Grows Partnership With NCRM With $600K Grant - Monday, January 16, 2017

The National Civil Rights Museum will be the center of many observances on Monday, Jan. 16, the federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

24. Memphis Upstanders Mural Unveiled In South Main Historic Arts District - Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Nina Katz, Lucy Tibbs and Rev. Billy Kyles are among the social justice figures in Memphis history honored in a new Downtown mural unveiled on Tuesday, Nov. 22.

25. Last Word: The Day After Big River, Freedom Awards Shift and Tubby & Fiz - Monday, October 24, 2016

Once the ribbons were cut, the speeches made and all of the players on both sides of the river were thanked, Sunday was the day those who put the Big River Crossing project in motion waited for to see what the public’s verdict would be on the boardwalk crossing the Mississippi River.

26. Grizzlies and Civil Rights Museum Create ‘A Bridge of Opportunity’ - Friday, September 16, 2016

Fifteen years ago, the Memphis Grizzlies were about to start their first season as the city’s NBA team. The run-up to the season had been bumpy with next-door neighbors displaying “NBA NOW” and “NBA NO” signs. The latter were first created with a little editing to the “NBA NOW” signs as the “w” was erased or covered over.

27. Last Word: Regrouping, Freedom Awards and The View From Another Bridge - Thursday, July 14, 2016

It will be a year come Sunday – a year since Darrius Stewart, a passenger in a car pulled over by Memphis Police in Hickory Hill was shot and killed by Officer Conner Schilling.

28. 5 Honorees Chosen For Freedom Awards - Thursday, July 14, 2016

Two civil rights attorneys, a federal appeals court judge and a Yemeni journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner are among the recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum’s 25th annual Freedom Awards.

29. The Week Ahead: July 11-17 - Monday, July 11, 2016

Time to get your week started, Memphis! Our look at the week ahead includes several chances to indulge your inner art patron – from hanging out with a local comic book artist to being on stage at the Orpheum – plus other need-to-know happenings you’ll want to check out…

30. Jesse Jackson Calls for Passion to Continue Dr. King's Work - Wednesday, April 6, 2016

He was 26 years old in 1968 when he was a guest at the Lorraine Motel with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and one of the younger members of King’s inner circle.

31. Junior League Hosting First Memphis Women’s Summit - Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Junior League of Memphis is kicking off its first Memphis Women’s Summit, a one-day conference to celebrate and encourage local women leaders.

The summit will be held on Thursday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the University of Memphis’ Michael D. Rose Theatre, 470 University St.

32. National Civil Rights Museum Debuts Digital Network - Monday, January 25, 2016

The National Civil Rights Museum has started a digital network of the speeches from its annual Freedom Awards programs.

The museum debuted the network on the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday with speeches the 2015 Freedom Award honorees gave at the annual public forum and the awards banquet.

33. NCRM President Says New Movement Comes With Sacrifice, Hardship - Friday, November 13, 2015

The president of the National Civil Rights Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 11, told a group of LeMoyne-Owen College students and faculty that there is a new civil rights movement.

And like the movement chronicled in the museum, it comes with tension, sacrifices, hardships and a human toll.

34. NCRM President Keynotes LeMoyne-Owen Series - Wednesday, November 11, 2015

National Civil Rights Museum president Terri Lee Freeman will deliver the keynote speech Wednesday, Nov. 11, at LeMoyne-Owen College’s 35th annual Fagin Lecture Series.

35. NCRM Highlights Teacher Effectiveness Initiative - Saturday, September 19, 2015

It’s not the kind of history you normally see at the National Civil Rights Museum, even with the museum’s 2014 technological update and expanded exhibits.

A temporary exhibit on display through Oct. 4 reviews Shelby County Schools’ historic shift in teacher effectiveness training that began in 2009.

36. Civil Rights Museum Names Freedom Awards Recipients - Saturday, August 8, 2015

Ava DuVernay, the director of the movie “Selma,” Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and Ruby Bridges-Hall, who as a 6-year-old integrated schools in New Orleans, are the recipients of the 2015 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Awards.

37. Civil Rights Museum Names 2015 Freedom Awards Recipients - Friday, August 7, 2015

Ava DuVernay, the director of the movie “Selma,” Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and Ruby Bridges-Hall, who as a 6-year-old integrated schools in New Orleans, are the recipients of the 2015 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Awards.

38. King In Context - Friday, April 3, 2015

The Selma to Montgomery voting rights march and the Alabama town’s Bloody Sunday in 1965 happened long before London Lamar was born.

When the Memphian went with her family to Selma last month for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights-era milestone, it was important to her to walk the Edmund Petus Bridge, the site of the brutal police charge that stopped the first attempt to march to Montgomery.

39. Evolving Identity - Saturday, December 20, 2014

Some of the most telling views of Memphis are the ones many of us see for only seconds at a time as we drive on viaducts that take us and our cars just above the treetops and rooftops of older neighborhoods interrupted by the roadways.

40. It’s Time to Move - Monday, December 8, 2014

I posed the question just last week, “Ferguson, Missouri …What’s Next?” Little did I know, that the “what’s next” would be yet another grand jury finding no probable cause for having a criminal trial in the death of Eric Garner.

41. Memphis Protests Channel Outrage, History - Monday, December 8, 2014

The mantra was steady in the courtyard of the National Civil Rights Museum last week as a group of 70 people lay on the cold bricks near the balcony where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

42. Leadership and Fundraising - Tuesday, September 30, 2014

“... The true leader can be recognized because somehow or other his people consistently turn in superior performances. ... A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure.”

43. Incoming Civil Rights Museum President Seeks Connection - Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The incoming president of the National Civil Rights Museum remembers a quick and hurried visit to the museum shortly after the debut of an extensive renovation earlier this year.

“It lends itself to giving people a physical, spiritual experience in coming here. It is a moving institution,” said Terri Lee Freeman, who comes to the museum from being president of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region in Washington, D.C. “I come from a town where there are a lot of museums. I’ve never had the experience of being physically moved by a museum like I had when I came here the first time.”

44. Civil Rights Museum Names New President - Saturday, August 2, 2014

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has named Terri Lee Freeman to be its next president.

45. Civil Rights Museum Names New President - Friday, August 1, 2014

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has named Terri Lee Freeman to be its next president.