A view of the heat and exhaust fumes that come off the gas turbines at the xAI facility on Paul R. Lowry Road on April 21.

When Shelby County Director for Health Services Dr. Michelle Taylor walks through Regional One Health's emergency room, she sees the seams fraying from ...

This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A ...

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 ...

A simple fact drives the push to get more Black people in clinical trials. If Black bodies aren’t included, the treatments developed from those trials may not be as effective for Black lives. “The ...

Advocates for transit in Memphis gather outside City Hall on April 8. The group urged the city to put more funding toward the Memphis Area Transit Authority. Photo by Katherine Burgess for MLK50 ...

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 ...

In 1930s Memphis, Black workers fought for dignity while surviving the Great Depression. Black women in the workforce, like these kitchen assistants at Fairview Hospital in 1937, were central to many ...

Jade Cooper holds her newborn while standing for a portrait at Germanshire Park in October. Cooper delivered her two children while working with Shanille Bowens, a local birth doula who is training to ...

The exterior of the Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court in downtown Memphis. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 In January, a new “blended sentencing” law will go into effect in Tennessee that could ...