Local Editorial

By Rosetta Miller Perry In an accomplished and progressive school system, such as the Metro Nashville Public School System (MNPS) and others, the top priority of the person who runs a city’s school department should […]

By Rosetta Miller Perry, Tribune Publisher School Board Members Amy Frogge and Jill Speering like to play to the cameras each week during Board of Education meetings. They constantly spout out policy to hide behind […]

By Rosetta Miller Perry Sometimes it really seems elected officials just recycle the same rhetoric from year to year and administration to administration. It doesn’t take much vision to look around Nashville and see Black […]

By Rosetta Miller Perry It has been clear from his first day in office that Donald Trump’s primary agenda was to undo all the progress that was made during Barack Obama’s two presidential terms. The […]

By Robert Walker One thing that remains consistent in politics, whether it’s at the local, state, or national level, is people with money and influence are often able to get questionable and/or bad policies approved […]

By vote of the governing board of Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH), a coalition of 61 congregations, labor unions, and other community organizations, NOAH hereby issues the following formal resolution in connection with […]

By Rosetta Miller Perry Even before the tragic shooting of Daniel Hambrick July 26 by Andrew Delke it was time for the Nashville Police Department to thoroughly examine how it was doing business. The Jacques […]

By Rosetta Miller Perry Few mid-term elections have been more crucial than the one coming this November. It should be apparent to everyone with any degree of intelligence that the current person in the White […]

By Rosetta Miller Perry Nashville has a growing and severe problem with violence and crime, something that is reflected by the 107 criminal homicides that occurred in the city last year, the most since 1997. […]

By Rosetta Miller Perry I spent my entire professional career fighting for equality and economic justice while employed by the United State Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. and then as director of the […]