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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bus riders wait for their ride at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in October 2024. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 Members of the Memphis City Council could appoint a trustee to oversee ...

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 ...

The number 13 bus arrives at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in 2021. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 The Memphis Area Transit Authority has selected two finalists for the role of next ...

Folks at a community meeting are silhouetted against the windows of the Lester Community Center in Memphis, Tennessee on July 30, 2025. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight Local/Report for America At ...