After President Donald Trump announced on Fox News Friday that he plans to send the National Guard into Memphis, city ...

National Guard armored vehicles were lined up along Riverside Drive in May 2020. Gov. Bill Lee, like 29 other state governors ...

Council Chairman J. Ford Canale (right) chats with Council Attorney Allan Wade (second from right) during a private attorney-client session as seen through the glass panes in the committee room at ...

The Statue of Liberation, a large replica of the Statue of Liberty on the corner of Winchester Road and Kirby Parkway, was erected by the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church. Photo by Kevin ...

Earlier this month, five of the Memphis Area Transit Authority board members (marked in yellow) resigned from their posts. Top row, from left: Dana Pointer, Anna McQuiston, Cynthia Bailey, Brian ...

MEMPHIS, TN - August 12, 2023: Shelby County district attorney Steve Mulroy speaks during the 2023 Memphis People's Convention at the Memphis Sports and Events Center. Photo by Brandon Dill for MLK50 ...

The ‘Stand With Immigrants’ protest is seen in front of the Executive Office of Immigration Review building on South Main Street on July 8. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report for ...

FOREGROUND: Workers on a barge use rocks to sink a willow mat into the Mississippi River at Mellwood Bend, Arkansas, in 1939. Men on the dock maintain the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A view of the exterior of the Shelby County Youth Justice and Education Center. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight Local/Report for America The multiyear fight between the Shelby County Sheriff’s ...

One of Kerrie Washington’s children runs down the hall (right) while at home in Grahamwood Place Apartments (left). Like some of her neighbors, Washington and her family have had issues with cracks ...