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 ...

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 ...

David spent eight months incarcerated at the Youth Justice and Education Center. Center portrait by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report for America; Image of the Shelby County Youth and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during a Tuesday morning press conference with Memphis Mayor Paul Young at the temporary command center for the Memphis Safe Task Force. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 ...

A child sitting in the backseat of a car pulled over by the Tennessee Highway Patrol peeks through the window during a traffic stop at an Exxon located at Airways Boulevard and Winchester Road. Photo ...

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 ...

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 ...