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The top tier of Lauren Ashe Cuautle and Bryan Cuautle Romero’s wedding cake is still in the freezer, in a plastic container, tucked behind other food.

The Memphis couple celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary April 9, but they weren’t able to be together for it: Bryan has been detained at the West Tennessee Detention Facility in Mason since Nov. 21, 2025, c...


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The horrors of the attempted execution of Tony Carruthers have stayed with me. Our public safety reporter, Brittany Brown, was there and will publish more about her experiences soon. But I also asked


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Trekeria Rainey poses for a portrait on Mud Island in Memphis. Photo by Kevin Wurm/MLK50/CatchLight Local/Report for America

When I was 15, I spent nine months in juvenile detention. Every day looked the same: I woke up at 6 a.m., brushed my teeth and hair, left my cell to eat breakfast, spent a few hours on the phone and watching TV, ate lunch and dinner, and went back t...


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Tennessee Democrats locked arms on the House floor in protest of a GOP redistricting vote that split the state’s only majority-Black, minority-Democrat Congressional district around Memphis in three. Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout

This story has been republished with permission from Tennessee Lookout. Read the original story


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Rachael Goodwin Spriggs and other Tennesseans protested during a House committee meeting that was a part of the special session on May 6. Photo by Andrea Morales / MLK50

They sang, chanted, cried and set off 600 personal safety alarms that filled the capitol building with wailing sirens.

Memphians and their allies couldn’t stop state Republicans from carving Me...


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