Producing radical journalism requires radical action.  We know that to do the work we need to do, we have to take care of ourselves as we care for the ...
I ike our track record with the U.S. Supreme Court,” said House Majority Leader William Lamberth of a bill creating a new crime for immigrants to stay ...
Jerricia Harris sits for a portrait at her home on Mar. 5. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America Right before Jerricia ...
Students at Memphis Business Academy organized a protest on Feb. 27 in support of their classmate, a junior named Yasser, who was detained by ICE a week ...
Jesse Jackson gets into a car after a visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in 2018. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 There are people whose stature ...
Opponents of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline celebrate at Alonzo Weaver Park in Southwest Memphis after the developer announced the project’s cancellation July 2. Photo by Lucy Garrett for MLK50 MLK50 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of Kerrie Washington’s children runs down the hall (right) while at home in Grahamwood Place Apartments (left). Like some of her neighbors, Washington and her family have had issues with cracks ...
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 ...