Nashville, TN—Bessie Smith, who was born in Chattanooga, was known as the Empress of the Blues. She was the most popular blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bessie Smith Cultural Center honors her. Please make a donation to support the Black press and journalism produced by The TN Tribune by visiting https://tntribune.org/donate/
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NASHVILLE, TN – Less than two weeks into his new job, President Joe Biden issued six executive orders and signaled he would send a comprehensive immigration reform bill to Congress in coming weeks. “We’ve just been through four years of cruelty and chaos brought to you by the Trump administration,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice. He is a longtime immigrant rights activist from Boston. Sharry said the new Congress is more pro-immigrant and most Americans are glad to see the end of Trump’s draconian family separation policy. A majority of Americans support a pathway to citizenship for…
The House of Representatives has voted to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, following uproar over her past incendiary comments and apparent support of violence against Democrats. Thursday’s vote was 230-199, with 11 Republicans joining with all Democrats to back the resolution. The vote comes a day after the House Rules Committee advanced a resolution, put forth by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., to remove Greene from her assignments on the Budget panel and the Education and Labor Committee. The Georgia freshman has come under fire in recent weeks for her history of trafficking in racism,…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune) Former NFL wide receiver Peerless Price is returning to the sidelines as a volunteer coach for the 2021 season for the Tennessee State football team. Price played at the University of Tennessee, earning an All-SEC second team selection in 1998 during the Vols’ national championship winning season. He had 147 receptions for 2,298 yards and 19 touchdowns in four seasons in Knoxville. Price joins Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie to give the Tiger coaching staff two ex-NFL players. “I’m thrilled that Peerless is joining the Tiger Family,” TSU Athletic Director Dr. Mikki Allen said in a release. “He brings…
NASHVILLE – Martha Hays Cooper died peacefully at home in Nashville on Thursday, Feb. 4, after years of struggling with Alzheimer’s. “Ookie” was married to Rep. Jim Cooper for almost 36 years, mother of their three amazing children, Mary (Scott Gallisdorfer), Jamie, and Hayes, and grandmother of the incomparable Jay. Martha was born on Sept. 13, 1954, the second child of the late Dr. A.V. Hays and Dr. Martha Hays Taylor of Gulfport, Mississippi. Her siblings, Art Hays (Debbie) of Gaithersburg, MD, and Mary Hays Peller (Steve) of New Orleans, survive her. Martha graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1976…
Nashville, TN—Charley Pride won Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards in 1971. He was the first African American to do so. Between 1966 and 1987, Pride had 52 Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart. Please make a donation to support the Black press and journalism produced by The TN Tribune by visiting https://tntribune.org/donate/
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent WASHINGTON, DC — President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that his less than two-week-old administration hopes will be a catalyst to tackling America’s long-standing race problem. Biden’s action focused on police and prison reform and public housing. “America has never lived up to its founding promise of equality for all, but we’ve never stopped trying,” President Biden wrote on Twitter just before signing the executive orders. “I’ll take action to advance racial equity and push us closer to that more perfect union we’ve always strived to be,” the President proclaimed.…
NASHVILLE, TN — Professor Jones the eleventh dean of Duke Divinity School and a theologian whose work centers on the nature of forgiveness, the significance of Christian ministry and pastoral leadership, and social innovation and entrepreneurship. He has served as Duke’s chief international strategist to advance and coordinate the university’s global engagement. In his current tenure as Dean, he has strengthened the Divinity School’s financial trajectory, diversified the faculty and staff, and led a strategic planning process that has garnered great enthusiasm for the school’s future, all while setting new records for gifts to the Annual Fund and to the Divinity…
NEW YORK, NY — The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that its national board elected Deborah Archer as its new president. Archer replaces Susan Herman, who stepped down after serving 12 years leading the organization’s board through watershed moments, including the Trump administration and the emergence of civil liberties and privacy concerns in the digital age. An established civil rights lawyer, scholar, and teacher, Archer began her career as the Marvin M. Karpatkin Legal Fellow at the ACLU. She has been a member of the ACLU board since 2009, and a general counsel and member of the executive committee…