During lunchtime at LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis’ only historically Black college, President Christopher Davis finds South ...

Crepe myrtle branches have grown over the Velsicol sign on Jackson Avenue near Warford Street. The company’s chemical plant ...

Karanja Ajanaku worked as a journalist in Memphis for much of his life. Photo via Facebook. Photo illustration by Andrea ...

The city is asking community members how it should spend the tax money Mayor Paul Young wants set aside for neighborhoods within a five-mile radius of ...

A community rallied, organized, wrangled support, filed and fought lawsuits. National media took notice. Now the Byhalia Pipeline project is no more.

Environmental Justice Government Local Government ‘We deserve to breathe clean air’: Southwest Memphians take on Elon Musk’s xAI ...

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 ...

Photos by Andrea Morales for MLK50 In spring 2023, MLK50 learned Memphis and Shelby County were remediating lead poisoning hazards from far fewer homes than they were pre-pandemic. In the following ...

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.

“I had to hold him to keep him still while they were doing it because he was fighting and crying,” Jones said. Jones’ son, Ayden, was diagnosed with severe lead poisoning in August 2019. The current ...