As seen through the window of a MATA bus, passengers wait at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in October 2024.

A view of the heat and exhaust fumes that come off the gas turbines at the xAI facility on Paul R. Lowry Road on April 21.

This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A ...

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Latoya Akinyemi watches her youngest children as the warm-for-winter weather allows them to play outside on a Sunday afternoon. Her 4-year-old son shows off his scooter skills on the driveway, ...

Samuel Hardaway stands for a portrait near his family’s land in the Boxtown neighborhood in September 2020. Hardaway grew up in the community and spent his childhood playing in the woods before the ...

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 ...

Almost all of Memphis’ whitest neighborhoods sit alongside Poplar Avenue, pictured here from i-Bank tower in East Memphis. Most of its Blackest neighborhoods lie to the west of Airways Boulevard/East ...

This story was corrected on June 5 at 4 p.m to clarify a quote by Congressman Steve Cohen. When Shelby County Director for Health Services ...

Brittany M. Brown is the public safety and justice reporter at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. A Mississippi native with roots across Chicago, New Orleans and Guanajuato, Brittany is proud to make ...

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 ...