A Sister’s Love and Grief” is a three-part series that explores what Keyana Dixon’s life has been like since January 2023, ...

Words by Keyana Dixon as told to Brittany Brown. Video directed by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America ...

Tonya Elam’s daughter, Hannah, 2, is seen carrying a canned good while shopping at First Congo’s food pantry on Oct. 29, 2025 ...

From the story ‘We deserve to breathe clean air’: Southwest Memphians take on Elon Musk’s xAI by Katherine Burgess. Left: Boxtown resident Sarah Gladney stands for a portrait. Right: A hilly road in ...

Brittany M. Brown is the public safety and justice reporter at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. A Mississippi native with roots across Chicago, New Orleans and Guanajuato, Brittany is proud to make ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...