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 ...

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 ...

For tens of thousands of children in Memphis, most of them children of color, poverty is not a temporary living condition. It’s a trap constructed generations ago and maintained by adults, policies ...

Members of the Weakley County Reconciliation Project meet monthly to hear presentations about racial healing and America’s racist history in an effort to bind the community together. WEAKLEY COUNTY, ...

George C. Wallace speaks in Memphis in 1976. (Preservation and Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis – Press Scimitar collection) The candidate for president of ...

Mason Mayor Eddie Noeman and the Board of Aldermen voted to reopen the vacant West Tennessee Detention Facility as an immigration detention facility. The prison once housed federal criminal defendants ...

Nashville sweltered in near-record heat that morning last July as a 74-year-old woman completed yard work outside her home in the city’s prosperous Elmington Park area. Inside, an intruder waited. He ...

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 ...