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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”
“When children are exposed to a traumatic event, including a violent crime, their response may vary.” – American Academy of Pediatrics Hundreds of yellow...
This story is a collaboration between the Institute and Jacob Steimer at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power...
Attorneys for Alicia Franklin cite new evidence, saying police may have been "protecting" suspect Cleotha Henderson
Shelby County’s two-decade effort to reduce infant mortality has been a stunning success by many measures. Babies here are twice as likely to be...
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...
When they joined a religious order decades ago, Maureen Griner and Margaret Ann Zinselmeyer took vows of poverty. The Ursuline Sisters of Mount St....
Rape kit lawsuit against City of Memphis winds toward possible resolution later this month
Lt. Dewayne Smith's "conflicting'' testimony led to dismissal of federal drug case
A ribbon-cutting ceremony usually signals a grand opening, a new beginning. But the recent ceremony at the Lisieux Community Women’s Drop-In Center marked an...
Police reform advocates say MPD's disbanding of SCORPION unit is a 'PR Stunt'
Beatings, high-speed chases in unmarked police cars among emerging concerns
