Leon Phillips grew up in a hard-scrabble family in rural Ohio, where his grandmother, known affectionately and a little ...

She’ll be pumping gas or buying groceries, at a community or other sundry event, doing everyday things. A person in the near ...

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As seen through the window of a MATA bus, passengers wait at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in October 2024.

The Harvard economist’s work fits with other research that shows economically disadvantaged students have brighter futures when they attend low-poverty schools, thanks to the school’s quality ...

They work in a predominantly Black city with an overall poverty rate of 21.7% — 26.1% for Black Memphians — according to the 2020 Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet from the University of Memphis School of ...

A photograph found in Ariel J. Cobbert’s family’s archive sits on an old photo album. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50 ...

Vera Holmes (right) flips through a copy of the George Washington Carver High School class of 1982 yearbook with a classmate at the All Classes Annual Red & White Picnic at MLK Riverside Park in ...

“We just vented to each other about our work week and school life because a lot of us [were college] students as well,” Hardin said. The “Taco Tuesday” group, as they called themselves, talked about ...

Former Vice President Al Gore claps while at a rally organized by the Memphis Community Against the Pipeline at Alonzo Weaver Park on Sunday afternoon. Gore and his organization Climate Reality have ...

The explanation given was “lower US oil production resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic,” but at least one environmental activist gave the credit to pipeline opponents, including the grassroots ...