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 ...

Protestors march through downtown Memphis in February 2023, a few weeks after Tyré Nichols fatal assault by Memphis police ...

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 ...

Jade Cooper holds her newborn while standing for a portrait at Germanshire Park in October. Cooper delivered her two children while working with Shanille Bowens, a local birth doula who is training to ...

The exterior of the Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court in downtown Memphis. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 In January, a new “blended sentencing” law will go into effect in Tennessee that could ...

Join us Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. for a live debate between the candidates vying to represent the state of Tennessee in the U.S. Senate for the next six years. The debate will take place at the ...

Chelsea Glass returns to her seat after adding a public comment about police reform in the wake of the killing of Tyré Nichols during a Memphis City Council meeting in 2023. Photo by Andrea Morales ...

Workers walk through the parking lot of the facility where xAI has been operating since last month. Electrolux operated a manufacturing facility here that closed in 2023. Photo by Andrea Morales for ...

Joyce Warren sits for a portrait in her apartment at the Memphis Towers complex in June. On the wall behind her are notes from previous Memphis Towers meetings. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 In ...

Members of the 901 Bloc Squad stop by a demonstration by the LeBohneur Children’s Hospital “Stop the Bleed” program last year. Photo courtesy of 901 Bloc Squad What if we thought of firearm injuries ...