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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Jessica James had to get up and down that ramp. Her job at FedEx’s World Hub was to help ensure the trucks in her area were loaded and unloaded on time. That meant navigating forklifts on sloped ramps ...

Shanice Steenholdt kisses her son Jaiden Pointer, 2, on the forehead in Houston. Photo by Montinique Monroe for The New York Times I recently had a tall privacy fence installed around my house in ...