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 ...

Photo illustration by Andrea Morales for MLK50. The image in the frame is cropped from a 1981 Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper clipping showing the first inmates arriving at the Shelby County Criminal ...

Council Chairman J. Ford Canale (right) chats with Council Attorney Allan Wade (second from right) during a private attorney-client session as seen through the glass panes in the committee room at ...

“A Sister’s Love and Grief” is a three-part series that explores what Keyana Dixon’s life has been like since January 2023, when five former Memphis police officers beat her younger brother, Tyré ...

After a traffic stop on Nov. 18, a man sits in the back of a Tennessee Highway Patrol vehicle. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 In the heart of Berclair on the evening of Nov. 18, a traffic stop for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tennessee Republican gubernatorial candidates, clockwise from left, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Rep. John Rose and state ...

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 ...

Tennessee State Troopers yell at demonstrators after detaining Rebecca Leathers during the “ICE Out for Good” demonstration along Summer Avenue on Jan. 11 in Memphis. The protest was held three days ...

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

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy announces charges against the five Memphis Police Department officers fired Friday after Tyré Nichols was beaten during a Jan. 7 traffic stop. He died Jan.