Justin Adkins sits for a portrait at Catholic Charities of West Tennessee in Midtown on January 28. Photo by Ziggy Mack for MLK50 After learning to walk ...

This story has been republished with permission from Tennessee Lookout. Read the original story here. A Memphis domestic ...

The sunlight reflects off the side of Memphis City Hall in downtown Memphis. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 People with connections to the Memphis Police Department, clergy members, law professors, ...

Photo illustration of Princess Loko by Lovey Cooper/Scalawag. This profile of Princess Loko was originally published by Scalawag Magazine. For more reporting that explores the intersection of popular ...

State Sen. Brent Taylor took his ongoing criticism of Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy a step further last month, saying he plans to file a resolution allowing the Tennessee General ...

Brittany Brown, Reporter: Brittany is MLK5o’s public safety reporter. Brittany Brown, MLK50’s public safety reporter Brittany M. Brown is the public safety and justice reporter at MLK50: Justice ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the pews of Black Christian churches across Memphis, church matriarchs hold their legacies of care with a unique resolve. In action, it looks like nurturing communities and movements ...

Imagine walking through Downtown Memphis on a Monday morning, in the summer of 1876. The Civil War’s shadow still touches everything in sight. In a few months, a presidential election will bring the ...

Every year since 2014, Shelby County has given up nearly $41 million in tax revenue that could have been used to fund the county’s crumbling schools or cash-strapped transit agency. Instead, the money ...

A rider loads on to bus route 52 on a rainy morning earlier this month. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 The city of Memphis is not releasing funding budgeted for the Memphis Area Transit Authority ...

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 ...

Memphis Area Transit Authority’s chief development officer, John Lancaster (center), leads a tour of the organization’s operations center and transit hubs in October. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 ...