The Ivy League students came here as part of the West Tennessee Voters Project, an organization of student volunteers who ...

She graduated summa cum laude in 2025 from the University of Memphis with a bachelor’s in journalism. She is currently a ...

More investment and commitment. More public and private cooperation and collaboration. More voices at the table. More confession. More vision. More time. More than what we’ve done. More than what ...

Erika is a first-generation college student and first-generation immigrant from Mexico. She graduated summa cum laude in 2025 from the University of Memphis with a bachelor's in journalism. She is ...

Officer Garrett O’Brien grabs a juvenile in the neck area in this heavily edited footage from May 2018. Chokehold expert Dr. William Smock said he finds the maneuver troubling (Memphis Police ...

But an investigation by the Institute for Public Service Reporting in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports found the Safe Task Force surge has created public safety threats of its own with dozens of ...

It was bright and cool that day in May when a team of federal agents knocked on Miguel’s door, shattering an otherwise idyllic spring morning in this hardscrabble Southeast Memphis neighborhood. The ...

Porter-Leath said it needed $13.2 million to cover “the true costs” of the Head Start program for 1,520 students at its own centers. SCS offered $12.3 million. SCS said Porter-Leath’s proposal would ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the WKNO-FM public radio. One hundred years ago on May 8, a man who could not swim saved 32 people from drowning in the Mississippi River. That heroic act ...

A Memphis police officer at a traffic stop in 2022. (MPD body camera footage) When Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation last year that dismantled a local Memphis ordinance aimed at limiting ...

Tennessee’s Medicaid blockade began in 2014, when former state Rep. Jeremy Durham (left) and former state Sen. Brian Kelsey, both Republicans, helped pass a law that has blocked billions of federal ...

Dominique Hodges says she was wronged when she was arrested in December on a charge of felony intent to sell marijuana following a traffic stop. Prosecutors later dropped the charge against her. (by ...