Friends and family of the youth incarcerated at the Youth Justice and Education Center walk through its halls following a ...
Black mold grows on the ceiling of the bathroom at Pinebrook Pointe in July 2025. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight ...
People working with the Community Alliance for the Homeless’ Continuum of Care Planning Committee gathered on Jan. 20 and to discuss strategies for facing the changes in the funding process. Photo by ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. Photo by Andrea Morales ...
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland speaks at graduation of union pre-apprenticeship class at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall on Madison Avenue. Photo by Ariel Cobbert for ...
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 ...
Crepe myrtle branches have grown over the Velsicol sign on Jackson Avenue near Warford Street. The company’s chemical plant shut down in 2012. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 Velsicol was a chemical ...
Inspired by a similar program launched by the national news outlet Mother Jones, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism has launched a creator-in-residence program for Memphis creatives. The program seeks ...
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 months, we educated ourselves on the ...
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