Celebrate the 4th at Pickwick Landing
KNOXVILLE, TN — Hardin County will celebrate the Fourth of July with a stunning fireworks display, beginning at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4. Fireworks will be shot from the Pickwick Landing State Park...
View ArticleMLK Jr. Magnet High Graduate Returns as Veterinarian
By Clint Confehr NASHVILLE, TN — A day in the life of Eva Evans, pet doctor, might start by mowing the lawn in front of her City Pets Animal Care clinic on Jefferson Street. A couple of years ago, Dr....
View ArticleUTHSC Designated as a Center of Excellence
MEMPHIS, TN — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is taking a major role in helping to ensure that medical products and pharmaceuticals used around the world are safe. UTHSC has...
View ArticleTake 10 Featuring St. Anselm’s Episcopal Church
On this week’s Take 10 with The Tennessee Tribune, Rev. Cynthia Siefert, Johnine Thomas and Bill Gittens of St. Anselm’s Episcopal Church, discuss with Tribune Editorial Director Sandra Long Weaver...
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ATF Promotes Fireworks Safety
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) wants the public to be safe during the Fourth of July. Understanding the dangers associated with illegal or improperly...
View ArticleTN Secretary of State Hargett Will Not Comply With President Trump
NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett announced recently he will not comply with a request for voter information made by President Donald Trump’s voter fraud investigation...
View ArticleNEA Honors TN Educator Marcec for Helping Appalachia Kids
BOSTON, MA — NEA bestows upon Wendy Marcec, a retired Tennessee educator, its prestigious 2017 Reg Weaver Human and Civil Rights Award for her unbending work to alleviate the effects of poverty in...
View ArticleTN Black Caucus Statewide Town Hall Tour Continues
CHATTANOGA, TN — The Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators’ series of town hall meetings across the state is coming to Chattanooga in July. TBCSL Vice-Chair, Representative JoAnne Favors of...
View ArticleDean for Governor Campaign Launches Website
NASHVILLE, TN — After visiting nearly half the counties in Tennessee, the policy positions of gubernatorial candidate and former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean are beginning to take shape. The campaign...
View ArticlePartnership Forms to Expand Access to Specialized Treatments
NASHVILLE, TN — Renewal House and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have launched an alliance that will expedite treatment and expand the community’s capacity to treat moms and children most...
View ArticleThis is What Democracy Looks Like
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN –Like the abolitionists and freedom riders before them, they began their meeting with a prayer. About 150 people came to the Gordon Memorial UMC on Herman St. last week to...
View ArticleEEOG Launches Enrichment and Technology Program
NASHVILLE, TN — The Education Equal Opportunity Group (EEOG) launches their Third Annual Summer Enrichment and Technology Program. From July 10 to July 21, high school students will have the...
View ArticleUTHSC Graduate Student Ross Receives Fellowship
MEMPHIS, TN — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center announced today that Jordan Ross, graduate student in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in the College of Medicine, is the...
View ArticleMedical Missionary Boasts to Tell of Healing Catastrophic Diseases
By Wiley Henry MEMPHIS, TN — What Mamon Wilson has been able to accomplish with homeopathic medicine is beyond comprehension – particularly since he’s not a medical doctor or the conferee of a medical...
View ArticleTake 10 Featuring Alexis DeBerry and Moody Altamimi
Alexis DeBerry (granddaughter of Tennessee Tribune publisher Rosetta Miller Perry) and Moody Altamimi were the guests on Take 10 with the Tennessee Tribune. They discussed with Tribune Technology...
View ArticleVanderbilt’s Vice Chancellor Hill Retires
By Melanie Moran NASHVILLE, TN — George C. Hill retired from his post as vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion as of July 1. He will immediately resume his role as professor emeritus in...
View ArticleIowa’s First African American Woman Legislator, Willie Stevenson Glanton,...
By Genma Stringer Holmes On July 6, 2017, Rep. Willie Stevenson Glanton, Iowa’s first Black female legislator died at 95. A Humanitarian and Civil Rights legend, Rep. Glanton, had many ties to the...
View ArticleEmerge Tennessee Trained 24 to Campaign
By Clint Confehr NASHVILLE, TN — The first class of Emerge Tennessee — it trains women to be Democratic candidates for elected office — graduated Saturday at Fisk University. Clarksville Mayor Kim...
View ArticleSouthern Festival of Books in Nashville This Fall
NASHVILLE, TN — Humanities Tennessee Saturday announced a lineup of award-winning, bestselling authors who will headline the 29th annual Southern Festival of Books in Nashville taking place Oct. 13-15....
View ArticleHonoring Our Fathers, Mothers and Ancestors
During these last several months, I have had the opportunity to have some productive and heartfelt experiences with the citizens of this city. From business owners, to elected officials, to youth and...
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