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People Are More Likely To Ignore Your Emails If You’re Black
Study shows people are less likely to respond to Black senders. Study shows people are less likely to respond to Black senders. Black people face everyday microaggressions and racism at work – and a...
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Does A 51-Year Life Sentence Make Sense For Juveniles?
By Tony D. Vick It took the jury only thirty minutes on that Wednesday afternoon to decide that Alejandro Gauna, who was seventeen at the time of the crime, was guilty of 1st degree murder. The choice...
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Catch a ride Downtown via WeGo bus, Star train on New Year’s Eve
NASHVILLE – Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, December 31, free bus rides will be available on WeGo Public Transit bus routes, and service on 17 routes will be extended until 2:30 a.m. Saturday, January 1,...
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Entrepreneur Couple to Open Black-Owned Beauty Supply in Antioch, Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Local couple Steven and Whitney Sains are proud to announce the opening of Crown Love Beauty Supply in the spring of 2022. The Black-owned business will be a one-stop-shop for all...
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MTSU Uses Bahamas Bowl Appearance to Recruit International Students
By ANDREW OPPMANN Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Middle Tennessee State University’s senior administrators used its time in this island commonwealth leading up to the Bahamas Bowl to recruit potential...
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KCDC to Reopen Community Room at Residence at Five Points in January
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — The surprise gift came at the end of the Christmas Party for the seniors who live at the Residences at Five Points. It came in the form of a wish come true. Like gifts...
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Civil Rights Leader Nash Was Involved in Some of the Most Consequential...
Diane Nash is an acclaimed American civil rights activist. She was prominently involved with integrating lunch counters through sit-ins, the Freedom Riders, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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Mayor Cooper Submits Legislation to Make Juneteenth a Paid Metro Holiday
NASHVILLE, TN — From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19 as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. Today Juneteenth...
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Eric Adams to Be Sworn In As NYC Mayor at Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop
He’s going to kick off his first term with a bang. Eric Adams will be sworn in as the city’s 110th mayor in Times Square shortly after midnight Friday — coinciding with the iconic New Year’s Eve ball...
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Nashville High School to Be Named after Civil Rights Leader Rev. James Lawson
NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville’s newest public high school will be named in honor of the Rev. James Lawson, a civil rights icon and Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor, emeritus. The Metro...
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Tribune’s Man of the Year: Darrell Freeman
Darrell Freeman Speaks Truth to Power By Rosetta Miller Perry NASHVILLE, TN — The Tennessee Tribune has always celebrated and championed people of courage, those willing to speak truth to power, no...
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$100 Million Class Action Suit Spells Out Racism, Sexism, Fraud And A...
Systemic racism, sexism, and sexual harassment are staples in Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department while the mayor, city council, and police chief sit silently behind a blue wall colored...
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Your Ancestors Didn’t Have A Problem With It!
Now some people are not going to like what they are about to read! Dallas, Texas’ historic Friendship-West Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III, called for 100 Days...
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In Memoriam: The Black Press Of America Remembers Those We Lost In 2021
As the calendar turns to a new year and COVID remains as deadly today as the pandemic’s start nearly two years ago, the National Newspaper Publishers Association pauses to remember the icons and...
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In Memoriam: Doris Topsy-Elvord Legacy Of Leadership
Everyone’s mom – “Mother Doris” – was always guiding and mentoring generations of leaders that wanted to follow in her footsteps where no other African Americans had blazed political trails before....
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Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Named To Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential...
TIME named nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump to the 2021 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, making him the only personal...
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Amanda Gorman Writes ‘New Day’s Lyric’
NEW YORK — Amanda Gorman ended her extraordinary year on a hopeful note. The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration made her an...
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Rep. Cooper Honors The Tennessee Tribune and Rosetta Miller-Perry
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-05) Dec 3, 2021 entered a statement into the Congressional Record honoring The Tennessee Tribune and its founder, publisher and CEO, Rosetta Miller-Perry....
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Breaking News: Waste Management has Filed for Rezoning of 17.25 Acres, Fees...
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)– Waste Management has filed for rezoning of 17.25 acres and the fees were waived. It is a downzoning from Industrial Restrictive (IR) to Office Limited (OL), but Office...
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Meet Middle Tennessee’s First Babies of 2022
Shortly after the clock struck midnight, Middle Tennessee’s newest (and most adorable) residents greeted the world. Yasmin Rose Arteaga was born at 12:18 AM at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital...
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