NASHVILLE – The Tennessee State University Meistersingers – TSU’s premiere choral group – added to its lore with a recent performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
The June 2nd performance followed a successful $20,000 fundraising campaign.
"Carnegie Hall is...
On Tennessee 222, between the Stanton, Tennessee business district and Interstate 40, rising steel girders portend a probable monumental change for this rural Haywood County village of about 500 residents on U.S. 70-79 about 50 miles northeast of Memphis.
The...
Rep. Justin J. Pearson's lopsided victory in the latest election to determine a House District 86 state representative sends a "resounding message to the powers that be in Nashville," Pearson said after his Thursday night win.
The message, Pearson said...
With the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on Poplar as the setting, a panel discussion (June 13) that focused on civil rights added to the multi-day, No Tears Project presentation in Memphis.
Rooted at the Oxford American – a quarterly...
NASHVILLE – Tennessee State University, which serves as the nation’s only HBCU Smart Technology Innovation Center, has partnerships with tech giants Microsoft and Apple, along with T-Mobile, Amazon and several others. Through these collaborations, TSU has worked to bridge...
The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS) has opened applications for the 2023 Families First Community Grant Program, an initiative that will make available approximately $30 million in funding to non-profit organizations providing direct services to strengthen Tennessee families...
by Emily Wagster Pettus --
JACKSON, Miss. – An 11-year-old Mississippi boy who called police to help his family and then was shot by an officer said the bullet that pierced his lung felt “like a big punch to the chest.”
“I actually...
Tennessee’s third-grade reading proficiency rate jumped by more than 4 percentage points to 40 percent on this year’s state tests.
But that means up to 60 percent of its third graders could be at risk of being held back under...
by Adrian Sainz --
Twenty-six people in Tennessee have been recently convicted or face charges for possessing “switches,” devices that convert semi-automatic firearms into a machine guns, which can be made with 3-D printers and bought on the internet, federal...
Sarah Hughes Johnson, a beloved daughter of Greenville, Mississippi, respected for her Civil Rights advocacy and civic leadership, died May 9 at Region One Health in Memphis. She was 85.
Ms. Johnson’s life was a filled with accomplishments that helped...