When Shelby County Director for Health Services Dr. Michelle Taylor walks through Regional One Health's emergency room, she sees the seams fraying from ...

This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A ...

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 ...

A simple fact drives the push to get more Black people in clinical trials. If Black bodies aren’t included, the treatments developed from those trials may not be as effective for Black lives. “The ...

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 ...

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 again, Justin Adkins traded 14 years of ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during a meeting at the White House in 1966. Photo by Yoichi Okamoto via Wikicommons. What does it mean to honor the legacy of a man committed to eliminating poverty ...

Tennessee’s new blended sentencing law goes into effect on Jan. 1, potentially altering the lives of hundreds of Tennessee children. Blended sentencing mandates children as young as 14 charged with ...

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 ...