Yuleiny Escobar (second from left) talks to the crowd at the Joy Rising Poll Party on Saturday at Gaisman Park. Photo by Noah ...
State Sen. Brent Taylor. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with MLK50: ...
Martin Johnson, a field organizer with the Justin J. Pearson campaign, works with a group of volunteers to build out a ...
The Youth Justice and Education Center in 2025. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 Shelby County has no way to enforce an ordinance passed in August to curb the use of solitary confinement in the Youth ...
Tonya Elam’s daughter, Hannah, 2, is seen carrying a canned good while shopping at First Congo’s food pantry on Oct. 29, 2025. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight / Report For America This story ...
On the last page of the Nov. 3 ballot, there’s a proposed change to the City of Memphis charter. It’s wordy, and barely mentions library employees at all, ...
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 ...
Volunteers distribute flyers during a town hall on xAI with KeShaun Pearson and Memphis Mayor Paul Young on March 22 at Riverside Baptist Church. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 The city is asking ...
David spent eight months incarcerated at the Youth Justice and Education Center. Center portrait by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report for America; Image of the Shelby County Youth and ...
Judge Tarik Sugarmon talks to journalists in the gymnasium of the Youth Justice and Education Center following an open house on Nov. 12. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Memphis-Shelby County ...