Leon Phillips grew up in a hard-scrabble family in rural Ohio, where his grandmother, known affectionately and a little ...

“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.. She ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters For the first time in ...

A photograph found in Ariel J. Cobbert’s family’s archive sits on an old photo album. Photo by Ariel J. Cobbert for MLK50 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A proposal by members of the Memphis City Council to slash the ...

Editor’s note: This story was corrected on June 5 at 4 p.m to clarify a quote by Congressman Steve Cohen. When Shelby County Director for Health Services Dr. Michelle Taylor walks through Regional One ...