Editor's note: AnApril 28 fire destroyed historic Clayborn Temple in Downtown Memphis. We are republishing this 2023 story on the renovation efforts then underway at the church. When Anasa ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Clayborn Temple Church in Downtown Memphis went up in flames early Monday morning. The second-alarm fire was reported just before 1:40 a.m. at the historic church and civil ...