Renee needs $166 to keep her lights on. Money has been tight — her son graduated from high school this spring, and her mother was recently diagnosed with dementia. But the three-person household in ...

“The health care he got on the outside was way worse than what he’d gotten in prison,” said Portia Moore, the formerly incarcerated founder and CEO of Memphis’ Transitional Reentry Adult Program.

Leon Phillips grew up in a hard-scrabble family in rural Ohio, where his grandmother, known affectionately and a little fearfully as ‘Big Momma,’ preached from the gospel of hard work. “I learned to ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters For the first time in five years, many Shelby County families are missing out on supplemental ...

Last week, the city announced that it had commissioned third-party air quality testing, which took place on June 13 and June 16, examining pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde. While ...

In Shelby County, a network of organizations with the Memphis-Shelby County Schools s ummer feeding program are serving meals and offering food pick-ups for students who are without school meals ...

As seen through the window of a MATA bus, passengers wait at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in October 2024. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 The Memphis City Council voted Tuesday to ...

A photograph found in Ariel J. Cobbert’s family’s archive sits on an old photo album. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50 “Cameras gave to black folks, irrespective of our class, a means by which we ...