Ted Conover

Ted Conover is the director of NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He has written several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

National Guard troops lined Beale Street during a protest on March 29 , 1968. “I was in every march, all of ’em, with that sign: I AM A MAN,” recalls former sanitation worker Ozell Ueal.

The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis

In his final days, Martin Luther King Jr. stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t

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