Jerricia Harris sits for a portrait at her home on Mar. 5. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America Right before Jerricia ...

Latoya Akinyemi watches her youngest children as the warm-for-winter weather allows them to play outside on a Sunday afternoon. Her 4-year-old son shows off his scooter skills on the driveway, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photo illustration of Princess Loko by Lovey Cooper/Scalawag. This profile of Princess Loko was originally published by Scalawag Magazine. For more reporting that explores the intersection of popular ...

Brittany Brown Brittany Brown Public Safety Reporter brittany.brown@mlk50.com Katherine Burgess Katherine Burgess Government Accountability Reporter ...

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 ...

Plains All American Pipeline announced in late 2019 its joint plans with Valero Energy Corporation to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline through Black communities in Southwest Memphis. The ...

A recent analysis of debt collection lawsuits caught my eye and reminded me of the power of partnerships between courageous residents and journalists. I’m referring to MLK50: Justice Through ...

A view of the Juvenile Court building in downtown Memphis. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight Local/Report for America When Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon ran against former Juvenile Court ...

Vera Holmes (right) flips through a copy of the George Washington Carver High School class of 1982 yearbook with a classmate at the All Classes Annual Red & White Picnic at MLK Riverside Park in ...

Students at Memphis Business Academy organized a protest on Feb. 27 in support of their classmate, a junior named Yasser, who was detained by ICE a week ...