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

Renee needs $166 to keep her lights on. Money has been tight — her son graduated from high school this spring, and her mother ...

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 ...

She’ll be pumping gas or buying groceries, at a community or other sundry event, doing everyday things. A person in the near ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Across the country, housing construction nose-dived during the Great Recession and has been slow to recover. But while that recovery is almost complete for the U.S. as a whole, Memphis-area builders ...

Environmental Justice Government Local Government ‘We deserve to breathe clean air’: Southwest Memphians take on Elon Musk’s xAI ...