This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A ...

Students at Crosstown High School walked out of school in March 2023 and held a rally to protest lax gun laws in the wake of ...

Protestors march through downtown Memphis in February 2023, a few weeks after Tyré Nichols fatal assault by Memphis police ...

A simple fact drives the push to get more Black people in clinical trials. If Black bodies aren’t included, the treatments developed from those trials may not be as effective for Black lives. “The ...

Easter Knox (center) stands for a portrait at her home. Knox is a longtime Boxtown resident. Photos by Lucy Garrett for MLK50 Easter Knox’s brick home in Boxtown has a garden, space for her dog to run ...

The exterior of the Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court in downtown Memphis. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 In January, a new “blended sentencing” law will go into effect in Tennessee that could ...

Workers walk through the parking lot of the facility where xAI has been operating since last month. Electrolux operated a manufacturing facility here that closed in 2023. Photo by Andrea Morales for ...

Members of the 901 Bloc Squad stop by a demonstration by the LeBohneur Children’s Hospital “Stop the Bleed” program last year. Photo courtesy of 901 Bloc Squad What if we thought of firearm injuries ...

The public notice sign associated to Pastor Clifford Causey’s housing development, weathered by the years passed since its posting, is planted at the edge of the overgrown field near the land. Photo ...

(Vanessa Saba, special to ProPublica. Source images: Photographs by Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, documents obtained by ProPublica and Mississippi Today.) When Sandy Jones’ 26-year-old daughter ...

Yolonda Spinks (second from right) and members of Memphis Community Against Pollution speak with the media following a meeting of the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board in August.