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Bridgestone Honors Top Maplewood High School Automotive Training Center...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) –Bridgestone Retail Operations (Bridgestone), a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, welcomed this year’s top ten Maplewood High School Automotive Training Center students...
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Johnnie A. Jones Sr. Dies at 102; a Civil Rights Lawyer Early On
Johnnie A. Jones Sr. was 24 years old and a future civil rights lawyer not yet graduated from college when he landed on the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day invasion of 1944. He nearly died before his...
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Black Farmers Lost At Least $326 Billion During 20th Century
By Jamila Bey A new study has found that Black farmers have lost more than $326 billion in land value during the 20th century. That figure, according to researchers, is a deeply conservative estimate...
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Centerstone Releases New Comic Book for Students about LGBTQ+
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Centerstone, a national leader in behavioral health andaddiction services, announces the release of its seventh topical comic book. Spark Unmasked addresses matters of...
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Dollar General Literacy Foundation to Present More than $1.5 Million in...
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–The Dollar General Literacy Foundation will present 41 middle Tennessee schools, nonprofits and literacy organizations with more than $1.5 million in grant awards as part...
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Tennessee Farmers Prepare For Spring
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) — As more warm spring days are in the forecast, Tennessee farms will quickly be offering fresh strawberries, greens, and even locally-grown cut flowers. Businesses like...
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A White Librettist Wrote An Opera About Emmett Till – And Some Critics Are...
by Anita Gonzalez, Georgetown University “Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who...
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WDIA’s Bobby O’Jay Died Doing What He Loved
By Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, TSDMemphis.com Tuesday morning, just before 9 a.m. when the phone lines are open, WDIA Program Director Bobby O’Jay fell unconscious during his show. He suffered a fatal...
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$175 Million In TANF Funds Awarded To Seven Groups Across The State For...
NASHVILLE – As part of the Tennessee Opportunity Pilot Initiative, seven public-private groups have been selected by the Families First Community Advisory Board to implement innovative strategies for...
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University of Tennessee Southern Chancellor Announces Plans to Retire
KNOXVILLE – University of Tennessee Southern Chancellor Mark La Branche has announced plans to retire from his current role effective June 30. The University of Tennessee System will name an interim...
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C.U.P.P. founder Michael Williams Sr. focuses on helping families of formerly...
Brooklyn native Michael Williams Sr., 53, is a formerly incarcerated mental health activist who created his nonprofit Create Unlimited Power Purpose (C.U.P.P.) to aid other formerly incarcerated...
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100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment Celebrated
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — In 2020, COVID shut down the initial plans for the celebration of the 100-year anniversary of womens’ right to vote. However, just as women were persistent to get that...
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Don’t Let Justice Alito Fool You, Ending Abortion Isn’t About Protecting...
By Nathalie Baptiste Along with the faulty science, dated legal precedent and partisan claims in Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion ending abortion rights, he included a pernicious...
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Eulogy to My Mentor
By Rosetta Miller-Perry Recently, I woke up to some terrible news. My mentor, Dr. T.B. Boyd, III, who hugely influenced me in the publishing field had passed away. I’ve never met someone as...
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A Tribute to Dr. T. B. Boyd: A Champion for Black Economic Empowerment and...
by Michael A. Grant, J.D. “Not him who has much but he who has much to give is rich” — Native American proverb Michael A. Grant, J.D. Theophilus Bartholomeus Boyd, III, was born into a family of...
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Amazon Commits $10.6M to Develop Affordable Homes and Expand Social Services...
NASHVILLE, TN — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it will invest a total of $10.6 million to help build and renovate more than 130 affordable homes in partnership with the Metropolitan Development...
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City Bids Farewell to Outstanding Leader
By Reginald Stuart NASHVILLE, TN — Long before Theopolis Boyd III braved the early evening train heading out of his Pearl High School 1965 graduation ceremony, he was already set for success. Being a...
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Editorial: TB Boyd’s Death is An Enormous Personal Loss
By Rosetta Miller Perry There’s been a lot written and rightly so about the business accomplishments of Dr. Theophilus Bartholomew Boyd III, (T.B. to all of us who knew and loved him). He was the...
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A National Call for Moral Revival Set for May 23rd in Memphis
MEMPHIS, TN — On Monday, May 23 at 4:30 p.m., the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will have a march and rally in Memphis to elevate the interlocking injustices plaguing the...
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Nationally-Renowned Voting Rights Advocate Oliver Announces State Senate Run
NASHVILLE, TN — When developers wanted to build condos on top of a burial ground for former slaves at Fort Negley, Charlane Oliver knew she had to act. “It took a group of unapologetic Black leaders...
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