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Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that played an important role in the civil rights movement.

The 75,000 images chronicle ordinary Black life, capturing decades of Black weddings, graduations, and more. In Memphis, an archive of 75,000 photographs offers an intimate look at Black life in ...

A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, was ...