Words by Keyana Dixon as told to Brittany Brown. Video directed by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America. Keyana Dixon agreed to meet on her day off. It was a warm yet cloudy and ...
Residents against the xAI data centers protest on Shelby Drive in February. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / ...
Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison's execution ...
There is a disconnect between what we know in Memphis about freedom and the history being performed at the forefront of America’s 250th Independence Day ...
Rebecca Cadenhead and Kevin Wurm. Photo illustration by MLK50 MLK50’s youth justice and life reporter Rebecca Cadenhead and ...
Advocates on Tuesday urged Gov. Bill Lee to reverse a policy requiring immigration reporting of of kids enrolled in Children’s Special Services, a program ...
Gov. Bill Lee speaks during a press conference at the temporary headquarters of the Memphis Safe Task Force on Oct. 14. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 This story has been republished with permission ...
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 ...
Justin Adkins sits for a portrait at Catholic Charities of West Tennessee in Midtown on January 28. Photo by Ziggy Mack for MLK50 After learning to walk again, Justin Adkins traded 14 years of ...
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 ...