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Mayor avoids talk of Trump’s task force during ‘State of the City’ speech

Memphis Mayor Paul Young delivers his State of the City address at First Baptist Church Broad in Binghampton on Tuesday. Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America Memphis ...
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Does your Memphis home need repairs? You may qualify for these assistance programs

Water damage created a hole in Ms. Carolyn’s dining room ceiling that she has been trying to get fully repaired for a few years. Photo by Kevin Wurm / ...
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Power and Prejudice: How a little-known Tennessee law convicts Black children for murders they didn’t commit

his is a story about 104 children sentenced to die in prison by the state of Tennessee. Each was convicted of a murder — even though some had not killed anyone. In several cases, the children had been ...
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Ordinance attempts to limit juvenile isolation, but county has no way to enforce it

Jerri Green, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris and director of the Shelby County Department of Corrections Anthony Alexander answer questions during a press conference in June 2025. Photo by Andrea ...
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‘What is going to happen with the kids, Lord?’

A child plays last week at his grandmother’s house, where he now lives with his three siblings and four cousins, all who lost their parents in an ICE raid ...
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He was hit by a cruiser at an anti-ICE march. THP hasn’t released video of the incident.

The front of a Tennessee Highway Patrol cruiser makes contact with KB and a safety marshal trying to stop it from driving into the crowd behind it at the ICE Out For Good protest on Jan. 11.
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38109 residents asked how to spend money from xAI tax payments

Volunteers distribute flyers during a town hall on xAI with KeShaun Pearson and Memphis Mayor Paul Young on March 22 at Riverside Baptist Church. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50 The city is asking ...
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FedEx says it’s a safe workplace. So why is Jessica James dead?

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 ...
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Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s push for Elon Musk’s xAI data center

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 ...
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April 2025 was one of the deadliest months on record for Memphis children

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 ...
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No school, no fresh air and isolated

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 ...