Franklin Anticipates One Celebration, Two Locations By Clint Confehr FRANKLIN, TN — There was no question that votes would be…
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By Ashley Benkarski MURFREESBORO, TN — The plantation once owned by the Maneys, one of Murfreesboro’s earliest and most influential…
FRANKLIN, Tennessee (TN Tribune)—Tennessee State Historian Dr. Carroll Van West, leaders of the African American Heritage Society of Williamson County…
By Evelyn Hockstein The Rotunda, with its tall columns and domed roof, is the centerpiece of the University of Virginia’s…
Dr. Miriam DeCosta Sugarmon Willis used the power of education to persist, overcome and knock down walls that would create…
Washington, D.C. (TN Tribune)– NCNW joins the nation in observing Women’s History during the month of March. Coincidentally, or perhaps…
By Clint Confehr FRANKLIN, TN — Born in this city known for its Civil War history, Georgia Harris, a family…
By Esther Schrader It was a muggy Monday in 1964 and as darkness fell, Jacksonville, Florida, was ablaze with racial…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Fort Negley in Nashville was built by 2,768 enslaved and free Black men and women during the…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Dr. Jack Macon was an enslaved man who practiced medicine in Maury, Bedford, Giles, Hickman, Williamson and…