From Staff Reports MEMPHIS, TN — Shelby County will soon have a director of education to be a liaison between the mayor, county commissioners, school board members and their superintendents. Dr. Cedrick Gray, who starts […]
From Staff Reports WASHINGTON, DC — Major change is needed on how congressional district lines are redrawn every 10 years, according to a coalition of federal lawmakers who want to remove partisan politics from reapportionment. […]
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Attorney Jim Roberts, who represents Save Our Fairgrounds, is a bit like Don Quixote dueling with windmills. Unlike the protagonist in the famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes, Roberts’ […]
From Staff Reports WASHINGTON, DC — Following discussions at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Congress has passed legislation to train health care professionals on identifying and assisting human trafficking victims. Final […]
By Ashley Benkarski NASHVILLE, TN — Gov. Bill Haslam should grant Cyntoia Brown clemency, Davidson County-area faith leaders said recently at American Baptist College. “I struggle to find a greater miscarriage of justice than what […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia After more than a decade in business, Airbnb has gone beyond being recognized as just a worldwide accommodations platform that folks use as an alternative to hotels. […]
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — After a hearing with angry lawmakers one year ago, CoreCivic didn’t come back for a review of its operations at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, one of four state prisons […]
By Rev. Jesse Jackson In 2019, we will commemorate 400 years since the first 20 slaves were transported by ship from Africa by white slave traders and landed in Jamestown, Va. Now four centuries later, […]
NASHVILLE, TN — Mary Louise Watson, who along with 11 other families desegregated six all white schools in 1957 Nashville, has died. She was 99 years old. The Nashville Public Schools desegregation icon passed quietly […]
NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett on Monday presented First Lady Crissy Haslam with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) Medallion Award for her work to support the Tennessee State […]
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