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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...
For tens of thousands of children in Memphis, most of them children of color, poverty is not a temporary living condition. It’s a trap...
For the first time in a decade, the Shelby County Health Department is taking a comprehensive look at community health needs. The process, expected...
DRESDEN, Tenn. — Like so many other people in West Tennessee that Friday evening, Cathy Gallimore was watching the weather. Gallimore kept glancing at...
DRESDEN, Tenn. — When he was elected eight years ago at age 30, Weakley County Mayor Jake Bynum was the youngest county mayor in...
Jackie Johnson, a 23-year-old single mother of two, lives on a street in South Memphis that has more vacant lots and abandoned houses than...
Third grade just got harder. Third graders in public schools who “flunk” next spring’s TNReady reading test — and generally two-thirds of them in...
Last August and September, Memphis-Shelby County Schools hosted five pre-bid meetings to outline a whopping 84 federally funded HVAC upgrades at various schools. Representatives...
The agenda for last November’s work session of the Shelby County Board of Education was jammed. There were nearly 90 business items to go...
The proposed new funding formula for public schools will lead to a “fiscal cliff” looming on the horizon for local schools. Or it won’t....