Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Dr. Jack Macon was an enslaved man who practiced medicine in Maury, Bedford, Giles, Hickman, Williamson and…
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Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Daniel Brown was the first African American mayor of Knoxville. He served as acting mayor from January…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Robert Churchill in 1950 became the first African American journalist on the Nashville Banner. He graduated from…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–The Black History month colors are Red, which represents the blood that unites, Black for the people…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In her early years, Alethia Browning Tanner sold vegetables in…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Alfred Jackson was an enslaved person living at Hermitage under President Andrew Jackson. When a white visitor…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Author Zora Neal Hurston lived with her brother Robert Hurston, a student at Meharry Medical College, in…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–It was a muggy Monday in 1964 and as darkness fell, Jacksonville, Florida, was ablaze with racial…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Memphis Minnie was known as the Queen of the Blues. She was a singer, a guitarist and…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–After moving to Nashville in 1884, Preston Taylor, a business and religious leader, established Greenwood, Nashville’s second…