Delmar Gomez (left) sings in this screenshot from one of his music videos. This story was originally published by ...

After a traffic stop on Nov. 18, a man sits in the back of a Tennessee Highway Patrol vehicle. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 In the heart of Berclair on the evening of Nov. 18, a traffic stop for a ...

This story was originally published by The Institute for Public Service Reporting. On the night of Oct. 8, a man named Delmar Gomez drove to pick up his younger brother from a mechanic’s shop on Lamar ...

Judge Tarik Sugarmon talks to journalists in the gymnasium of the Youth Justice and Education Center following an open house on Nov. 12. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Memphis-Shelby County ...

Van Turner, a former county commissioner in neighboring Shelby County, speaks at the August rally that demanded the center be reopened, as well as equitable economic development in the region. (Photo ...

We’re excited to announce that we’ve added Alexis Wray to our development team. As community engagement manager, Wray, who started Oct. 6, will help deepen MLK50: Justice Through Journalism’s ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Leola Scott recently decided to become a more active citizen. The 55-year-old resident of Dyersburg, Tennessee, was driven to action after her son ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. Photo by Andrea Morales ...

(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 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 ...