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How I’d Fix Atlanta started as a free newsletter sent on a Thursday of most months in 2022. We’ve published 37 essays (and counting) since, put out a couple print zines, done some readings around the ...

The National Guard is coming to Memphis, President Donald Trump said Friday, Sept.12 on the cable news show “Fox & Friends.”

No democracy for you, urban voters! Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says the "second American Revolution" is renewing self-governance in same speech he tells right-wing legislators to de-c...

Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under T...

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. With 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, we not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as 2nd …

Departures of hundreds of lawyers put mortgage insurance claims, apartment building sales and other critical agency functions at risk, according to an internal memo.

Published in Journal of Urban Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Photo illustration by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Every year since 2014, Shelby County has given up nearly $41 million in tax revenue that could have been used to fund the county’s crumbling schools o…

A vigil created in commemoration of Cornelius Taylor near the site of his killing in "The Backstreet" off Old Wheat Street. (Zoey Laird) Destroyed tents

In 2023, after watching the appalling behavior of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) officers and other first responders, which resulted in the preventable death of Mr. Tyre Nichols, many Memphians a...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.”…

I was surprised to hear Mayor Paul Young and interim Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis say they hadn’t yet read the report. This begs the question, “Why rush to hold a press conference to an...

WATCH: Tax breaks back on table for Cavalier Court and Gospel Gardens

The City of Memphis does not plan on entering an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice following the department’s civil rights investigation into the Memphis Police Department.

“The future of the Grizzlies might be caught up in the ongoing fight over the gun referendum. For Memphis, it’s a dangerous game to play.”

Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.

A Methodist minister, he was a principal tactician behind the sit-ins, marches and Freedom Rides that withstood attacks by mobs and police throughout the 1960s.