This week begins with a Shelby County Commission meeting and a new member of the commission. This week also includes the three-day commemoration of the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination at the National Civil Rights Museum, including the annual changing of the wreath. And, on Sunday, a new contract with a Pennsylvania company to maintain the state's interstates begins.

The Early Word writer Bianca Phillips is in the studio and we'll be talking about all of that.

Plus:

• A family praises a judge for the sentence in a fatal hit-and-run
• The Memphis airport board chair and CEO are not concerned about a new state bill
• A group wants to make their neighborhood a place people stay as Frayser celebrates 200 years
• Documents show that xAI properties have been appraised at $3.5 billion