Project Recruiting Prospective Voters
By Clint Confehr NASHVILLE, TN — Community and businesses leaders advocate an on-line voter registration campaign launched recently by two elected officials looking to reverse two trends; declining...
View ArticleAdvance Financial On-Site Hiring Events
NASHVILLE, TN — Advance Financial is experiencing significant, rapid growth and plans to add 100 new employees to the company in the coming months. To support its hiring efforts, the company is hosting...
View ArticleCyntoia Brown Should Be Freed Immediately
By Rosetta Miller Perry The story of Cyntoia Brown is one of horrible mistreatment, so much so that everyone from celebrities to major magazines and filmmakers have become her champions. Over 13 years...
View ArticleFort Negley Findings Latest Insult to Black Community
By Rosetta Miller Perry The findings are still being evaluated and final determinations have yet to be made, but early reports indicate there’s a good possibility, even a probability, that there are...
View ArticleGoogle-YMCA Partnership Offers STEM Enrichment
NASHVILLE, TN — Twelve-year-old Landy sits at a round cafeteria table and tapes pieces of copper onto the cardboard he has cut out in the shape of a video game controller. He connects wires from the...
View ArticleFraternity Picks Nashville to Celebrate 107th Anniversary
NASHVILLE, TN — Over one thousand members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. will converge on the Music City during January 4-7 to celebrate the organization’s founding. Local fraternity alumni...
View ArticleLadies Aid Society Hosts Annual Prayer Brunch
NASHVILLE, TN — The Ladies Aid Society of Pleasant Green Baptist Church recently hosted its Annual Prayer Brunch in the church fellowship hall. The theme for the occasion was “Seeking Prayerful...
View Article12 Dead In Massive Blaze At Bronx Apartment Building
From Huffington Post Site. At least 12 people, including four children, died in a massive fire at a five-story apartment building in the Bronx Thursday night in what New York’s mayor called the city’s...
View ArticleShannon Street Documentary: A Memphis Tragedy
By Wiley Henry MEMPHIS, TN – If you witnessed the 30-hour siege unfold on Shannon Street on January 11, 1983, or watched the tragedy in real time on TV, it would be dif cult to forget the aftermath....
View ArticleMDHA Designing Community With Policy, Architects
By Clint Confehr NASHVILLE, TN — Economic integration is one of the things Metro wants to do by rebuilding a public housing community. “Mixed income” are the words Metropolitan Development and Housing...
View ArticleHow Can We Have More Life – At Any Age?
By Alice Bernstein, Tribune Correspondent On December 15, Dr. Jamye Coleman Williams, friend of The Tennessee Tribune, celebrated her 99th birthday. In her long productive life and legacy as an...
View ArticleOmarosa’s Final White House Days Full of Controversy, Accusations
By Hazel Trice Edney WASHINGTON, DC — Omarosa Manigault Newman, who has resigned under duress from her public liaison job at the White House, is leaving true to form – amidst a cloud of controversy...
View ArticleMLK, Jr. Commemoration by Vanderbilt Scheduled
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Vanderbilt University Commemoration January 12-15 Schedule of Events as follows: Friday, January 12th 12:00 p.m., MLK Kickoff Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural...
View ArticleSisterhood EMERGES in West Tennessee
By Vivian Shipe KNOXVILLE, TN — They were obviously not discouraged by Clinton’s loss. Quite the contrary. The women of EMERGE Tennessee class of 2017, along with women across the country, seem to...
View ArticleLeaders Collaborate to Help Those Incarcerated
By Toska Medlock Lee NASHVILLE, TN — The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the world’s incarceration population. With more than 7.3 million men and women on...
View ArticleFred L. Davis Insurance Agency Celebrating 50 Years
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View ArticleBaby It’s Cold Outside… Remembering Les Gemmes Last Summer Fling
By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — While we are experiencing single-digit wind-chill temperatures, turn your mind to the wonderful experience you had at Les Gemmes Last Summer Fling this past Summer. In...
View ArticleFBI Reportedly Investigating Clinton Foundation
Federal officials reportedly have launched a new investigation into allegations of corruption at Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable organization. The FBI and federal prosecutors aim to investigate...
View ArticleNo Justice For Michigan Girl Who Experienced Police Overreach
A police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan should be reprimanded – and fired – for handcuffing a terrified 11-year-old girl at gunpoint and forcing her into the back of his squad car. The incident...
View ArticleConscious Conversation Hosts Community Discussion on the Future of Nashville...
NASHVILLE, TN January 5 – In response to widespread community concerns, Conscious Conversation will host a community discussion that focuses on Nashville General Hospital. This event will consist of a...
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