Protestors march through downtown Memphis in February 2023, a few weeks after Tyré Nichols fatal assault by Memphis police ...

A simple fact drives the push to get more Black people in clinical trials. If Black bodies aren’t included, the treatments developed from those trials may not be as effective for Black lives. “The ...

(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 ...

Vera Holmes (right) flips through a copy of the George Washington Carver High School class of 1982 yearbook with a classmate at the All Classes Annual Red & White Picnic at MLK Riverside Park in ...

Opponents of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline gather at Alonzo Weaver Park Friday to celebrate the news that developers were abandoning the project. Justin J. Pearson, second from right, is one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dre Jones stands on the front porch with his son, Ayden (left), at their home near Dyersburg. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Dre Jones remembers watching his wife cry in the passenger seat of his ...

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s official portrait was recently hung at Memphis City Hall. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 At the annual “Light Up the Night for Peace” event on Dec. 14, people ...

People watch a legislative session in April 2023 from the House of Representatives gallery. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Credit: Andrea Morales Members of the Memphis City Council approved a ...