Black Leaders Respond to Mass Transit Plan
By Cillea Houghton NASHVILLE, TN — Community leaders are responding to Mayor Megan Barry’s ambitious mass transit plan, Let’s Move Nashville, calling for transit justice and intentionality to be at the...
View ArticlePublisher of Tri-State Defender Funeral Services Announced
MEMPHIS, TN — The national Black journalistic community, as well as the city of Memphis, was stunned, saddened and shocked by the sudden passing Sunday of the New Tri-State Defender’s president and...
View ArticleBest Dental Schools to Avoid Six-Figure Student Debt
By Elyssa Kirkham $1.28 billion — that’s the combined student debt of 2016 dental school graduates, according to numbers reported in the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Survey of Dental...
View ArticleLonnell Matthews Wants to Help Families
Staff Reports NASHVILLE, TN — Lonnell Matthews says Davidson County’s next juvenile court clerk should be more than a records keeper. With 15 years in youth development for the YMCA, Matthews says, “I...
View Article‘Porch Talks’ Hear Black Vets’ History
By Clint Confehr FRANKLIN, TN — African American veterans’ contribution to history is the topic of next Friday’s porch talk at the McLemore House presented by the African American Heritage Society of...
View ArticleTSU’s Brown-Daniel Library Celebrates 45 Years
NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee State University’s Brown-Daniel Library is celebrating 45 years as a federal government depository library. The celebration coincided with TSU’s 2017 Homecoming recently. TSU...
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Lions to Begin Attack on Diabetes at Peach Bowl
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — The numbers are scary, 5 million deaths yearly make diabetes the 8th leading cause of death in the world. In addition to the high number of deaths, diabetes accounts for...
View ArticleMunicipal Auditorium Celebrates 55 Years
NASHVILLE, TN — Fifty-five years after it hosted its first event – a Church of Christ revival – the Metro-owned Municipal Auditorium is celebrating the completion of major renovations to the historic...
View ArticleMaster Chef TV Show Casting in Nashville – TOMORROW!!
NASHVILLE, TN — Master Chef, America’s most-watched cooking competition show, will be in town tomorrow for open call castings. If you know the difference between a pot vs a pan and a stove vs a...
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‘White Lives Matter’ Rally Canceled After Meeting Heavy Resistance In Tennessee
A white supremacist rally in Shelbyville was met by police and counterprotesters, and a second rally was canceled. By Cristopher Mathias White supremacists, neo-Nazis and fascists descended on a...
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Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort Charged In Russia Probe
By Jessyln Cook and Ryan J. Reilly A campaign adviser caught lying to the FBI about Russian “dirt” on Hillary Clinton is now cooperating with investigators. WASHINGTON ― Former Trump campaign chairman...
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New York terror suspect was radicalized domestically, governor says
By Nicole Chavez and Holly Yan All it took was a man and a truck to inflict the deadliest terror attack on New York City since 9/11. A 29-year-old man plowed into a crowd of bicyclists and pedestrians...
View ArticleDespite Trump, ACA Open Enrollment Has Begun
By Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA No, President Trump and the Republican Congress haven‘t “repealed and replaced” President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal health care law, yet. But...
View ArticleLeonardo Named Tennessee Tribune’s Councilman of the Year
By Tribune staff NASHVILLE, TN — Public service is something many good people avoid these days, unwilling to deal with the demands, low pay, and hassles that are a routine part of the job. But that has...
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LaDonna Boyd Appointed President/CEO and Chairman of R.H. Boyd Publishing, Corp.
By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — The Board of Directors of the R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp. unanimously voted LaDonna Boyd to head the 121 year old International Company. LaDonna Boyd She succeeds her...
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Officer McBride Receives the Theodore Roosevelt Police Award
NASHVILLE, TN — Chief Steve Anderson and the local chapter of the Theodore Roosevelt Association recently presented Officer Terrance McBride, who was seriously wounded by a shotgun blast fired by a New...
View ArticleA Hallelujah Time in Cayce Homes
No shooting — No Murders — Just LOVE By Staff Reports NASHVILLE, TN — Cayce Place, a public housing development located in East Nashville, was the site of a Hallelujah Festival this past weekend to...
View ArticleNAACP Listening Tour Comes To Nashville
NASHVILLE, TN — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will visit Nashville as part of its multi-city listening tour, NAACP Forward: Today, Tomorrow & Always, on...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Mayor Megan Barry, Vice Mayor David Briley and Nashville City...
NASHVILLE, TN — While attending a Nashville Organized for Action and Hope meeting yesterday, I was disappointed that no one mentioned the city’s proposal for the new pedestrian bridge, which is an...
View ArticlePolice Station Needed Near Jefferson Street
By Tribune Staff It has been months since the activist group Gideon’s Army issued a report disclosing widespread disparities in police traffic stops. The report examined more than two million stops...
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