A photograph found in Ariel J. Cobbert’s family’s archive sits on an old photo album. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50 ...

As seen through the window of a MATA bus, passengers wait at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in October 2024.

A view of the heat and exhaust fumes that come off the gas turbines at the xAI facility on Paul R. Lowry Road on April 21.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A proposal by members of the Memphis City Council to slash the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ProPublica announced on Thursday that Wendi C. Thomas, the founder of the award-winning nonprofit newsroom MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, will be rejoining ProPublica’s Distinguished Fellows ...

Janiya, an art student at Collegiate School of Memphis, stands with her piece “Tell oh pharaoh.” “Much of African-American blood has been spilt to get us to where we are today, and we still are not ...

In 1930s Memphis, Black workers fought for dignity while surviving the Great Depression. Black women in the workforce, like these kitchen assistants at Fairview Hospital in 1937, were central to many ...

Jade Cooper holds her newborn while standing for a portrait at Germanshire Park in October. Cooper delivered her two children while working with Shanille Bowens, a local birth doula who is training to ...