As seen through the window of a MATA bus, passengers wait at the Hudson Transit Center in downtown Memphis in October 2024.

A view of the heat and exhaust fumes that come off the gas turbines at the xAI facility on Paul R. Lowry Road on April 21.

This story was corrected on June 5 at 4 p.m to clarify a quote by Congressman Steve Cohen. When Shelby County Director for Health Services ...

Advocates for transit in Memphis gather outside City Hall on April 8. The group urged the city to put more funding toward the Memphis Area Transit Authority. Photo by Katherine Burgess for MLK50 ...

This story has been updated to reflect that MATA did present its budget requests to the City Council in June last year. A ...

Opponents of the Byhalia Connection Pipeline gather at Alonzo Weaver Park Friday to celebrate the news that developers were abandoning the project. Justin J. Pearson, second from right, is one of ...

Easter Knox (center) stands for a portrait at her home. Knox is a longtime Boxtown resident. Photos by Lucy Garrett for MLK50 Easter Knox’s brick home in Boxtown has a garden, space for her dog to run ...

(Vanessa Saba, special to ProPublica. Source images: Photographs by Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, documents obtained by ProPublica and Mississippi Today.) When Sandy Jones’ 26-year-old daughter ...

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland speaks at graduation of union pre-apprenticeship class at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall on Madison Avenue. Photo by Ariel Cobbert for ...