A child sitting in the backseat of a car pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol peeks through the window during a ...

Memphis saw fewer breast cancer deaths for Black women from 2013 to 2023, according to a new Susan G. Komen Foundation ...

People scan the offerings at the First Congo Food Justice Ministry in April. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 The federal One ...

A moment from the Oct. 18 No Kings protest at Poplar Avenue and Highland Street. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America I ...

Brittany M. Brown is the public safety and justice reporter at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. A Mississippi native with roots across Chicago, New Orleans and Guanajuato, Brittany is proud to make ...

Mayor Paul Young (center) speaks alongside Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis while answering questions from the ...

As grocery costs rise and federal funding for food banks runs dry, food insecurity is plaguing many Memphis families. Now, the problem could get even ...

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 ...

Samuel Hardaway stands for a portrait near his family’s land in the Boxtown neighborhood in September 2020. Hardaway grew up in the community and spent his childhood playing in the woods before 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 ...

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 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 ...