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 ...

In 1930s Memphis, Black workers fought for dignity while surviving the Great Depression. Black women in the workforce, like these kitchen assistants at Fairview Hospital in 1937, were central to many ...

Every year since 2014, Shelby County has given up nearly $41 million in tax revenue that could have been used to fund the county’s crumbling schools or cash-strapped transit agency. Instead, the money ...

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 ...

Chelsea Glass returns to her seat after adding a public comment about police reform in the wake of the killing of Tyre 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 ...

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 ...

(Vanessa Saba, special to ProPublica. Source images: Photographs by Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, documents obtained by ProPublica and Mississippi Today.) When Sandy Jones’ 26-year-old daughter ...