Franklin Anticipates One Celebration, Two Locations By Clint Confehr FRANKLIN, TN — There was no question that votes would be cast by the mayor and aldermen Tuesday for June 19 events to celebrate freedom. Juneteenth […]
By Ashley Benkarski MURFREESBORO, TN — The plantation once owned by the Maneys, one of Murfreesboro’s earliest and most influential families, has recently come under new management and is working to tell and uplift the […]
FRANKLIN, Tennessee (TN Tribune)—Tennessee State Historian Dr. Carroll Van West, leaders of the African American Heritage Society of Williamson County and other community partners in historic preservation announced details of a campaign to acquire and […]
By Evelyn Hockstein The Rotunda, with its tall columns and domed roof, is the centerpiece of the University of Virginia’s idyllic campus, a building designed by Thomas Jefferson, who modeled it after the Pantheon in […]
Washington, D.C. (TN Tribune)– NCNW joins the nation in observing Women’s History during the month of March. Coincidentally, or perhaps providentially, Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, President Emerita of NCNW, was born on March 24th and […]
By Clint Confehr FRANKLIN, TN — Born in this city known for its Civil War history, Georgia Harris, a family history consultant, found her antebellum ancestors and subsequent cousins. “His people owned my people,” Harris, […]
By Esther Schrader It was a muggy Monday in 1964 and as darkness fell, Jacksonville, Florida, was ablaze with racial unrest. On a grassy roadside far from the tumult, Johnnie Mae Chappell was searching for […]
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Fort Negley in Nashville was built by 2,768 enslaved and free Black men and women during the Civil War. Enslaved people were promised freedom if they worked for the Union Army. Please […]
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Dr. Jack Macon was an enslaved man who practiced medicine in Maury, Bedford, Giles, Hickman, Williamson and Lincoln counties in the early 1800s. He was considered a “healer of remarkable talents” and […]
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Daniel Brown was the first African American mayor of Knoxville. He served as acting mayor from January 2011 to December 2011. He also served on the city council from December 2009 to […]
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