Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (from left), Ayanna Pressley and Summer Lee stand with Tennessee state representative Justin J. Pearson at a rally for Pearson’s congressional run at New ...

Photo illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Andrea Morales/MLK50, screenshot by MLK50, U.S. Air Force photo by Trevor Cokley via Wikimedia Commons Marilyn Gooch was already ...

Leo is nine years old and in fourth grade. He likes superheroes, zombies, Legos and Pokémon cards. His father was the same age when his family brought him from Mexico to the United States. Now, after ...

Elmer, a street vendor from Honduras, said he saw three immigrants arrested by federal agents near his shoe stand in Memphis. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight Local/Report for America This article ...

Latoya Akinyemi watches her youngest children as the warm-for-winter weather allows them to play outside on a Sunday afternoon. Her 4-year-old son shows off his scooter skills on the driveway, ...

A screenshot from body camera footage from a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer shows Memphis Police Officers and Homeland Security agents working together to see which passengers they could detain ...

Tennessee Republican gubernatorial candidates, clockwise from left, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Rep. John Rose and state Rep. Monty Fritts talk death penalty methods and the National Guard in ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. photo by Dick DeMarsico, World Telegram staff photographer. The historian and Martin Luther King, Jr. biographer David Garrow recently published an article in the ...

Plains All American Pipeline announced in late 2019 its joint plans with Valero Energy Corporation to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline through Black communities in Southwest Memphis. The ...

Clockwise from top left: Rev. Keith Norman; Dr. Audrey Townsel; Daniel Kiel; Toney Armstrong; Amber Sherman; Lucian Dervan; Zayid Saleem; Austin Wyatt, Sr.; Rev. Rosalyn Nichols (center) Photo ...

A view of the Juvenile Court building in downtown Memphis. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight Local/Report for America When Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon ran against former Juvenile Court ...

Brittany Brown Brittany Brown Public Safety Reporter brittany.brown@mlk50.com Katherine Burgess Katherine Burgess Government Accountability Reporter ...