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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the annual “Light Up the Night for Peace” event on Dec. 14, people murmured the names of loved ones lost to gun violence. They lit candles in the sanctuary of Church of the River for the more than ...

Students at Humes Preparatory Middle School perform during their Black History Month program in 2017. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 In 1968, with pride, inspiration, and hopes for a brighter ...

Surveillance video from a Dollar General in Memphis showed that three police officers beat and kicked Reginald Dean, pictured, in April 2022. Photo by Ariel Cobbert for the Marshall Project This story ...