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This story is a collaboration between the Institute and Jacob Steimer at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power...
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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'