Before the fire, the Clayborn Temple was undergoing a $25 million restoration that was slated for completion in 2026.

A historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that was an organizing point for Martin Luther King's last civil rights campaign caught fire early on Monday morning and was badly damaged.The inside of the Clayborn Temple was gutted by flames,

Clayborn Temple was at the center of the civil rights movement and where a march that brought Martin Luther King Jr. to the city started.

A cybercrime expert with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has testified that a former Memphis police officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols took a photo of Nichols as he sat on the ground,

Testimony resumed on the second day of the Tyre Nichols state criminal trial on April 29. Mills was the first witness to take the stand Tuesday.

Three former Memphis police officers were frustrated, angry and full of adrenaline when they fatally beat Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop in 2023, a prosecutor said Monday during opening arguments in their trial on second-degree murder charges.