Human Rights Day Dec. 6
NASHVILLE, TN — Tennesseans’ celebration of Human Rights Day includes a lifetime achievement award for Dr. Charles Kimbrough. Membership surged and civil rights issues were addressed when Dr....
View ArticleAlexander: Bill Headed to President’s Desk is “Good News for People Fighting...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2016 – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said a health care bill he cosponsored in the Senate that will help make the medical brain power of institutions like Vanderbilt...
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Put the Pressure On!!!
98 percent of climate scientists believe man made climate change is real. The effects of climate change are felt more on the poor and disenfranchised than on any other group. It takes longer for these...
View ArticleThe Man Who Will Push Metro Schools
NASHVILLE, TN — As a Lincoln University student tutor, Shawn Joseph met an 11th grader from Philadelphia unable to read. “I couldn’t understand how in America, we couldn’t allow any child, not to be...
View ArticleDavidson County DA Fights Child Sex Assault.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk announced today that, thanks to support from Mayor Megan Barry, an expanded team focused on child sexual assault cases is now in...
View ArticleTake 10 On Tuesdays Featuring Rep. Brenda Gilmore
State Rep. Brenda Gilmore discusses the political highs and lows of 2016 on Take 10 on Tuesdays with The Tennessee Tribune. Gilmore, who was just elected to her sixth term in office and is ending her...
View ArticleTSU hosts 90th Birthday Bash for Homer R. Wheaton
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University had a birthday bash for one of its noted sons: Homer R. Wheaton. Under the theme, “Everybody Loves Mr. Wheaton,” the university hosted a...
View ArticleUTHSC to Graduate 135 Health Care Professionals
MEMPHIS, TN — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will graduated 135 new health care professionals during its winter commencement on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. in the...
View ArticleTake 10 On Tuesdays Featuring Kimberly Clay
Kimberly Clay, PhD, discovered physical inactivity can lead to a shorter lifespan for today’s girls, while doing her graduate research over a decade ago on cancer in young women. The discovery led her...
View Article‘The Old Boys Network Still Runs This City’
NASHVILLE, TN — Alex Coure is like a squeaky wheel that gets no grease. A minority business owner, Coure helped Ricoh-USA win a contract with Metro schools in 2012, public records show. The bid was for...
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Gordon’s Heats up the Holidays with a Special Twist on Nashville Hot Chicken
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Move over, fried turkey. There’s a new centerpiece meat in town perfect for the holidays, and Nashville’s own Gordon’s is introducing it. The upscale restaurant recently debuted its...
View ArticleWhy the National Museum of African American Music Should Be in Downtown...
Little of beauty has America given the world…; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty. And so by fateful chance the Negro folk-song—the...
View ArticleHeroes to be Honored at MLK Jr. Breakfast
MURFREESBORO, TN — Kind hearts and heroes will be honored next weekend during this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. birthday breakfast at MTSU. The late Jerry Anderson of Murfreesboro is the inspiration...
View ArticleMemphis NAACP Executive Director Madeleine Taylor Retires
MEMPHIS, TN — Madeleine Taylor, retired after 26 years with the NAACP including six years as director. Taylor retired in December 2016. Taylor has been integral to the work of the civil rights...
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Cooper v Trump conflicts
WASHINGTON – President-elect Trump should take immediate steps to eliminate his foreign financial conflicts of interest, according to a U.S. House resolution co-sponsored by Nashville’s congressman....
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Black Caucus to Haslam: Diversify Your Cabinet
NASHVILLE, TN — State Rep. Brenda Gilmore, chair of the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators, is calling on Gov. Bill Haslam to diversify his cabinet. Raquel Hatter, TN Commissioner of Human...
View ArticleEliminate Electoral College; Rep. Cohen
WASHINGTON, DC – Tennessee’s congressman from Memphis wants presidents elected by a majority of American voters, so he’s calling for change in the Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College. U.S....
View ArticleTribune’s Person of the Year 2016: Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos
NASHVILLE, TN — Nicholas S. Zeppos became Vanderbilt’s eighth chancellor in 2008, after being interim chancellor the year before. But this past August the school did something under his leadership...
View ArticleTribune’s 2016 Person of the Year: Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg
MEMPHIS, TN — Social justice advocacy has been such a natural part of Native Memphian Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg as she was honored by the Tennessee Human Rights Commission (THRC) at its 50th anniversary...
View ArticleTribune’s 2016 Person of the Year: Dr. Phyllis Qualls
NASHVILLE, TN — Dr. Phyllis Qualls is the consummate professional. She is actively involved in the community and forever sharing her gifts and abilities for a cause greater than she that benefits all...
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