Students at Crosstown High School walked out of school in March 2023 and held a rally to protest lax gun laws in the wake of ...

Protestors march through downtown Memphis in February 2023, a few weeks after Tyré Nichols fatal assault by Memphis police ...

Opponents of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline gather at Alonzo Weaver Park Friday to celebrate the news that developers were abandoning the project. Justin J. Pearson, second from right, is one of ...

Dre Jones stands on the front porch with his son, Ayden (left), at their home near Dyersburg. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Dre Jones remembers watching his wife cry in the passenger seat of his ...

On Feb. 1, 1968, an especially rainy Thursday afternoon, city sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker took shelter in the back of a garbage truck when it malfunctioned. They were pulled into ...

A first-generation college graduate, Carrington J. Tatum, seen here visiting I AM A MAN Plaza in November 2021, made the difficult decision to walk away from journalism, in part, because of the burden ...

(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 ...

Joseph Owens sits for a portrait outside his home on an acre of land in Southwest Memphis. The Byhalia Connection Pipeline initially offered him $3,000 to obtain an easement on a portion of his ...

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 ...

Jessica James had to get up and down that ramp. Her job at FedEx’s World Hub was to help ensure the trucks in her area were loaded and unloaded on time. That meant navigating forklifts on sloped ramps ...