Historic Clayborn Temple director’s home caught fire weeks before church blaze
Firefighters gather outside the historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the Civil Rights Movement with ties to Martin Luther King Jr., after it caught fire, April 28, 2025, in Memphis. (Karen Pulfer Focht/AP file)
Before the April 28 fire at the Downtown church, there were fires at the Memphis home of the nonprofit’s leader and another in East Tennessee at a property owned by her family.
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