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 ...

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 ...

David spent eight months incarcerated at the Youth Justice and Education Center. Center portrait by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report for America; Image of the Shelby County Youth and ...

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 ...

If you never knew there was a militant response from Black folks fighting for their lives in Memphis slums and projects, think again. A master of the Memphis archives, writer Justin A. Davis unearths ...

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

Jessica James had to get up and down that ramp. Her job at FedEx’s World Hub was to help ensure the trucks in her area were loaded and unloaded on time. That meant navigating forklifts on sloped ramps ...

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, ...

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare sued more than 8,300 people – many of them low-income – over a five-year period for hospital bills they could not afford to pay. In 2019, MLK50: Justice Through ...

FedEx Express’ World Hub contributes $4.7 billion in wages to the regional economy. But the industry can be dangerous. FedEx’s data shows rising hazards to its workers since the start of the COVID-19 ...

Susie Mitchell stands for a portrait in the room she’s renting at a home in Frayser. Mitchell has been here since she and her mother were evicted from their Whitehaven apartment in August. They ...

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 the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. Photo by Andrea Morales ...