The site was a key meeting spot for the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and hosted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It just makes me tearful. It makes me cry," Pinson said. The National Civil Rights Museum said in a statement from President ...

At the same time, the project seeks to help revitalize the local neighborhood with a museum ... fire has ravaged one of our city's greatest treasures, Clayborn Temple," Memphis Mayor Paul Young ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand has suffered a devastating fire ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A fire broke out at a historical landmark early Monday in Downtown Memphis. Memphis Fire Department officials said the fire call came around 1:30 a.m. No injuries have been reported.

The National Civil Rights Museum said in a statement from President Dr. Russ Wigginton that the fire is a "devastating blow" to Memphis and the broader community. The church was the "nerve center ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The historic Clayborn ... Dr. Russ Wigginton, President of the National Civil Rights Museum, said fire could take down walls, “but it cannot destroy the spirit that built ...