After President Donald Trump announced on Fox News Friday that he plans to send the National Guard into Memphis, city ...

National Guard armored vehicles were lined up along Riverside Drive in May 2020. Gov. Bill Lee, like 29 other state governors at the time, called on ...

Council Chairman J. Ford Canale (right) chats with Council Attorney Allan Wade (second from right) during a private attorney-client session as seen through the glass panes in the committee room at ...

MEMPHIS, TN - August 12, 2023: Shelby County district attorney Steve Mulroy speaks during the 2023 Memphis People's Convention at the Memphis Sports and Events Center. Photo by Brandon Dill for MLK50 ...

The ‘Stand With Immigrants’ protest is seen in front of the Executive Office of Immigration Review building on South Main Street on July 8. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report for ...

The Statue of Liberation, a large replica of the Statue of Liberty on the corner of Winchester Road and Kirby Parkway, was erected by the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church. Photo by Kevin ...

State Sen. Brent Taylor took his ongoing criticism of Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy a step further last month, saying he plans to file a resolution allowing the Tennessee General ...

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 ...

(Vanessa Saba, special to ProPublica. Source images: Photographs by Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, documents obtained by ProPublica and Mississippi Today.) When Sandy Jones’ 26-year-old daughter ...

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 ...

Susie Mitchell stands for a portrait in the room she’s renting at a home in Frayser. Mitchell has been here since she and her mother were evicted from their Whitehaven apartment in August. They ...

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 ...