MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee advanced a decades-long effort to approve a bill that would establish a commission to study and develop proposals to help repair the lasting effects of slavery.Many believe the way to make amends for slavery is reparations -- making amends by giving African Americans the modern-day equivalent of the 40 acres and a mule their ancestors never received.“Years of discrimination and prejudice, and any beliefs, thoughts, programs that the commission thought could help rectify the lingering consequences of those awful acts. America’s...…MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee advanced a decades-long effort to approve a bill that would establish a commission to study and develop proposals to help repair the lasting effects of slavery.Many believe the way to make amends for slavery is reparations -- making amends by giving African Americans the modern-day equivalent of the 40 acres and a mule their ancestors never received.“Years of discrimination and prejudice, and any beliefs, thoughts, programs that the commission thought could help rectify the lingering consequences of those awful acts. America’s...WW…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - There’s a major push to fund and create pop-up vaccine sites for underserved communities across Shelby County.Memphis City Councilman J.B. Smiley introduced a resolution Wednesday asking the City of Memphis to adopt and fund the “Black Church Mobile Site Program.”The program was started by Memphis Pastor Kia Moore with The Church at the Well, after the change in leadership with the Shelby County Health Department.“The mobile vaccination sites are really important for us in Memphis right now especially because of the disparities we’re seeing,” Moore said. “What we...…MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - There’s a major push to fund and create pop-up vaccine sites for underserved communities across Shelby County.Memphis City Councilman J.B. Smiley introduced a resolution Wednesday asking the City of Memphis to adopt and fund the “Black Church Mobile Site Program.”The program was started by Memphis Pastor Kia Moore with The Church at the Well, after the change in leadership with the Shelby County Health Department.“The mobile vaccination sites are really important for us in Memphis right now especially because of the disparities we’re seeing,” Moore said. “What we...WW…