A Sister’s Love and Grief” is a three-part series that explores what Keyana Dixon’s life has been like since January 2023, ...

Words by Keyana Dixon as told to Brittany Brown. Video directed by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America ...

Tonya Elam’s daughter, Hannah, 2, is seen carrying a canned good while shopping at First Congo’s food pantry on Oct. 29, 2025 ...

The why: I loved that this story elevated the voices of Memphians living in the vicinity of the new xAI plant. The story was able to look at the historical context of the neighborhood, the rich ...

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 ...

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. That meant navigating forklifts on sloped ramps ...

Easter Knox (center) stands for a portrait at her home. Knox is a longtime Boxtown resident. Photos by Lucy Garrett for MLK50 Easter Knox’s brick home in Boxtown has a garden, space for her dog to run ...

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 ...

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 ...

The public notice sign associated to Pastor Clifford Causey’s housing development, weathered by the years passed since its posting, is planted at the edge of the overgrown field near the land. Photo ...

A first-generation college graduate, Carrington J. Tatum, seen here visiting I AM A MAN Plaza in November 2021, made the difficult decision to walk away from journalism, in part, because of the burden ...