View looking southeast at the exterior of the Second Presbyterian Church, now known as Clayborn Temple, on the corner of Pontatoc Avenue and Hernando Street in Memphis, Tennessee, 1974.

As Memphians came to mourn outside the remnants of Clayborn Temple, a message of rebuilding — bolstered by a $1.5 million ...

The Memphis Fire Department and ATF investigators have determined the April 28th fire at Clayborn Temple was intentionally set. A person of interest is being sought in connection with the fire.

Clayborn Temple in Memphis, largely destroyed by fire on April 28, will be rebuilt. A $1.5 million grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will support the reconstruction.

The fire that destroyed the Clayborn Temple, a historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, was intentionally set ...