For weeks now, a campaign has been underway in some white mainstream media to place total blame for the fiscal crisis at Tennessee State University on the former honorable president Dr. Glenda Glover. The mainstream media suddenly has amnesia because it has written for years that Tennessee State University (TSU) has been chronically underfunded and has faced a number of challenges. TSU was underfunded because it was a university with predominantly Black students, and now Tennessee schools that didn’t want Black students all these years now want them because of Federal Funding. Black and white students still want the TSU…
Author: Rosetta Miller Perry
President-elect Donald Trump has just shown he believes there is such a thing as “Black jobs.” His sole Black Cabinet appointment, former NFL player and White House official Scott Turner, will lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. His present position is chair of the Center for Education Opportunity at the America First Policy Institute. During Trump’s first term, Turner served as the executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, an initiative Trump created in 2018 to “encourage public and private investment” in thousands of low-income census tracts designated as so-called “opportunity zones” by Trump’s 2017…
I had the opportunity last week to sit down with President Glenda Glover regarding the allegations concerning TSU finances under her administration. President Glover retired on June 30, 2024. She said it was too complex to have a simple conversation. But she promised me that she would provide a statement. Her statement in its entirety is published below. Statement by Dr. Glenda Glover I am compelled to release this statement to address recent accusations, misinformation, and misstatements that have been reported publicly. Mischaracterizations surrounding the unfounded references to Tennessee State University’s financial condition under “the prior administration” as well as…
It really takes a specially unhinged person to sound more ridiculous and absurd these days than Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, but Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has managed to surpass him in making statements that are at best outrageous, and at worse dangerous, considering they’re coming from an elected official. Greene has already previously done such things as openly embrace white supremacist rhetoric and organizations, but her comments have gotten so ludicrous lately even her own party members are denouncing them. Last week Greene claimed online that Democrats are “controlling the weather.” Her bizarre statements came in the wake…
Seldom will voters in any presidential election have both a chance to make history and get a clearer and more obvious choice between candidates than in the upcoming one between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Harris espouses a host of positive values regarding the future. She’s been an outstanding state attorney general, senator, and Vice President. She would be the first Black and Asian woman president and the first HBCU woman graduate to hold that office. But most importantly, she’s an advocate for progress, someone interested in the plight of the entire nation, and not totally…
In the annals of Tennessee politics, there are few more egregious examples of injustice and abuse of power than the way certain state lawmakers targeted Tennessee State University in recent years. However, the karma for those responsible is now coming back to haunt them, and I believe this is only the beginning. Let us not forget the concerted efforts of State Senator Jon Lundberg and State Representative John Ragan to remove the capable leadership at TSU, amid the university’s diligent work to address the issues outlined in a biased and flawed comptroller’s report. These lawmakers, along with certain Republican cohorts,…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry The Democratic Party fully understands the threat to progress and democracy that convicted felon Donald Trump represents. He has already publicly promised to use the Presidency as a weapon of revenge against his enemies if he’s put back in power, and to pardon and excuse all those convicted in the attempted January 6 coup attempt by his followers. Joe Biden put the good of the nation ahead of personal ambition when he ended his re-election campaign last Sunday. That was the first big decision that needed to be made. A Democratic Party that once seemed divided and…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry The students at Morehouse College gave many of their peers across the nation a lesson in the proper way to make a statement and protest this past Sunday. When President Joe Biden gave the commencement address, there were those who protested, but they didn’t disrupt anything. They didn’t issue any death threats towards other students, and they didn’t make such a spectacle of themselves that the cause they were highlighting, the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, was ignored due to their conduct. A key part of the President’s speech was about HBCUs and their importance. Had…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry There is a subtle, yet important and distinct difference between change and progress. Change is inevitable in all phases of life, but can be either positive or negative, depending on the circumstances, events and personalities involved. Progress represents improvement, something and/or someone seeing their situations benefited or advanced. For Nashville’s Black community, too many times in recent years we’ve seen more and more evidence of how much Nashville has changed, but we haven’t exactly seen or enjoyed many benefits from it. While other communities may indeed have progressed as a result of the continued, often unregulated and…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry News Analysis The decision by NAACP Tennessee State Conference President Gloria Sweet-Love to suspend without warning Nashville branch President Venita Lewis leaves the local office without leadership or direction. The action was taken this past Saturday, but not announced until Tuesday Oct. 16. Sweet-Love did this through an email rather than after the results were released of any official inquiry or investigation, and she did not personally contact Lewis regarding the action. Instead, Sweet-Love spelled out her reasons in a press release, claiming among things that it was done because the NAACP “would not allow anyone to…