State Sen. Brent Taylor. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with MLK50: ...

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 ...

Tonya Elam’s daughter, Hannah, 2, is seen carrying a canned good while shopping at First Congo’s food pantry on Oct. 29, 2025. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight / Report For America This story ...

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, but workers at the Memphis Public Libraries ...

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 ...

The Bail Hearing Room at the Shelby County Justice Center is seen on April 2. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America Laramie Wheeler walked into a dim room at the Walter L ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posts like this make it more difficult for him to do his job because the public believes all law enforcement officers “think like this,” he said. There are other AI-generated memes, too. One image ...

Elmer, a street vendor from Honduras, said he saw three immigrants arrested by federal agents near his shoe stand in Memphis. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight Local/Report for America This article ...