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 ...
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, ...
This story is excerpted from a longer piece by Hammer & Hope. Read the full article here. Each time Brittany Johnson presses play, her son is alive and running. He sprints down Ida B. Wells Street, a ...
The Board of Aldermen had been sitting on the question for months before the upcoming vote slipped into public view. Word spread quickly. Residents, activists and organizers from around the state ...
State Rep. Justin J. Pearson stands for a photo with folks who came to a Sept. 19 campaign rally at Campbell Chapel M.B. Church in Bolivar, Tenn. Included in the crowd are Rep. Johnny Shaw and ...
People who participated in a May 1 die-in outside of SpaceXAI’s Colossus 1 data center sing and chant while leaving the site. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 I visit the hospital rooms of my family ...