One of Kerrie Washington’s children runs down the hall (right) while at home in Grahamwood Place Apartments (left). Like some ...

Karanja Ajanaku worked as a journalist in Memphis for much of his life. Photo via Facebook. Photo illustration by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Journalist Karanja Ajanaku, a former editor of The New ...

City of Memphis / TVA utility assistance This utility assistance program is funded by the city of Memphis and the Tennessee Valley Authority, but is administered by Neighborhood Christian Charities.

The city is asking community members how it should spend the tax money Mayor Paul Young wants set aside for neighborhoods within a five-mile radius of ...

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 ...

Boxtown residents and supporters stand outside the Shelby County Health Department on April 30 during a protest organized by Memphis Community Against ...

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.

Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto has no psychiatric unit, so it sends patients elsewhere for mental health treatment. When publicly funded facilities are full, some patients go to jail to wait for ...

For South Memphis residents, the announcement that SST will relocate from the almost all-Black neighborhood was a relief.

A community rallied, organized, wrangled support, filed and fought lawsuits. National media took notice. Now the Byhalia Pipeline project is no more.