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Delayed Rape Kit Testing Leads to Lawsuit: “You have to Fight for Yourself”
The Name Change that Took an Act of Congress
After Four Years, Cold Case Crime Center Has Done Little Solving
“Just Tell the Truth”: Retired MPD Worker Says Evidence Destroyed in Sexual Assault Cases
Destruction of Evidence a Question in Rape Kit Depositions
Why is there so much youth violence? Academics consult real experts: Middle school students
IPSR examination prompts independent audit of federal Covid-relief funds
School district fires facilities manager after IPSR investigation of bidding irregularities
‘Backrs’ builds support network for first-generation college students
Loss of funding, reproductive rights raise concerns about teen births
Changes in MSCS construction guidelines favored some vendors, excluded others
Rush to spend Covid-relief dollars brought Memphis schools fewer bidders, higher costs
Pioneering trauma program treats ‘hidden wounds’ in pediatric hospital’s ER
Memphis physicians mobilize to help india fight covid-19
How Manoj Jain became “The Dr. Fauci of Memphis”
This story is a collaboration between the Institute and Jacob Steimer at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power...
Memphis police have shot or killed seven people since late November. Authorities have released bodycam footage in just one of those cases: The beating...
The federal building in Downtown Memphis was named after two men on opposing sides of history. Now only one remains.
IPSR investigation prompts removal of Klansman's name from federal building, now renamed for late Judge Odell Horton
Four years ago, it seemed like a long-awaited step in the right direction: state lawmakers created the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation and...
With no staff and no funding, the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center makes little progress
The Sanitation Workers' Strike may be known for the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. But a week earlier, after a protest turned unruly,...
Police killing of Black teen is 'a pain that will never go away'