Bridgeport Manor (formerly Cambridge Court) has blighted buildings on its 636-unit property in Whitehaven. The apartment is currently in legal default ...

During lunchtime at LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis’ only historically Black college, President Christopher Davis finds South ...

Crepe myrtle branches have grown over the Velsicol sign on Jackson Avenue near Warford Street. The company’s chemical plant ...

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

Brittany M. Brown is the public safety and justice reporter at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. A Mississippi native with roots across Chicago, New Orleans and Guanajuato, Brittany is proud to make ...

The THDA knows its affordable housing policy restricts low-income people to struggling neighborhoods, but still hasn't changed it.

LJ Abraham lines up signs in support of the police reform ordinances passed in the wake of Tyré Nichols’ death at an April Memphis City Council meeting. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 While calling ...

South Memphis residents have long suffered from pollution from TVA’s Allen Fossil Plant. Now TVA is trucking the coal ash through their community to a nearby landfill, and documents show the federal ...

Plains All American Pipeline announced in late 2019 its joint plans with Valero Energy Corporation to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline through Black communities in Southwest Memphis. The ...

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