Paul Young, the child of two ministers, took the oath of office as Mayor of Memphis in January 2024. (Photo by Karen Pulfer Focht) On New Year’s Day 1992, a Memphis minister brought his two young sons ...

This story was produced in collaboration with WKNO-FM public radio. What started as a peaceful protest as part of the national string of No Kings protests ended with three people arrested following an ...

Despite his arrest, a restless night in jail and an eventual dismissal, Adam Nelson says “the long-term battle is worth fighting.” Activist Adam Nelson, 41, stands at the Downtown intersection where ...

Yasser Lopez stepped through the open gate and into the waiting arms of a friend. “I’m feeling happy,” an emotional Lopez, 18, a high school soccer player, said shortly after his release early this ...

This is Yasser Lopez’s empty bedroom. The 18-year-old high school junior was arrested last month by immigration agents following a traffic stop initiated by the Memphis Police Department. The city ...

Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis ...

But an investigation by the Institute for Public Service Reporting in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports found the Safe Task Force surge has created public safety threats of its own with dozens of ...

Tennessee’s Medicaid blockade began in 2014, when former state Rep. Jeremy Durham (left) and former state Sen. Brian Kelsey, both Republicans, helped pass a law that has blocked billions of federal ...

Gov. Bill Lee fields question from the media after meeting teachers and students at Hanley Elementary on Friday, April 23, 2021, in Orange Mound. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian) In the early 1980s, ...

Two immigration officers with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit (midle and right) are among members of the Memphis Safe Task Force out on assignment in this traffic stop last fall. (by John ...

Meghnad Bose is an assistant professor of practice in the University of Memphis’ Department of Journalism and Strategic Media and a staff writer for the Institute for Public Service Reporting. Before ...

Officer Garrett O’Brien grabs a juvenile in the neck area in this heavily edited footage from May 2018. Chokehold expert Dr. William Smock said he finds the maneuver troubling (Memphis Police ...