Social and economic mobility – along with “general community betterment” – form the underpinning for the $1M capital grant program that the Ford Motor Company Fund has rolled out for West Tennessee nonprofits.
The Ford Motor Company Fund is the...
Amid worries about teacher shortages, Tennessee is considering reducing requirements for some nontraditional candidates to earn their teacher licenses, despite concerns that the change could hurt teacher quality.
In the first of two votes on a controversial proposal, the State...
by Adrian Sainz --
SOMERVILLE, TN. -- A Tennessee man whose violent arrest for alleged traffic violations is under investigation by state police said Monday that he was stopped because he was a young Black man driving a nice car.
Brandon...
A candidate for mayor of Mason, Tennessee, who was disqualified after failing to meet the town’s residency requirements, is blasting the Tipton County NAACP, accusing the chapter of playing partisan politics to remove him from the ballot.
Thomas Burrell thinks...
NASHVILLE (AP) — Public housing agencies in Tennessee can no longer include provisions in their leases that bar tenants from having guns in their homes, a state appeals panel has ruled.
A three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals...
by Kimberlee Kruesi --
NASHVILLE (AP) — Less than a month before Election Day, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has no plans to participate in a debate against Democratic opponent Dr. Jason Martin.
“I’m most focused on being the governor right now,”...
NASHVILLE (AP) – As unions see new hope from organizing U.S. businesses ranging from Starbucks storefronts to an Amazon warehouse, Republican-led Tennessee will officially take its voters’ temperature on an organized labor issue in November.
Lawmakers have offered up a...
Gov. Bill Lee and his Democratic challenger, Dr. Jason Martin, agree that Tennessee students need timely and relevant vocational training opportunities, but the two candidates for governor don’t concur on much else when it comes to K-12 education.
In fact,...
Mason, Tennessee has become a political hotspot for more than the nearby highly anticipated Blue Oval City auto plant.
In the last week of August, four candidates had qualified to appear on the ballot for mayor this November: the incumbent...
NASHVILLE – Tennessee State University is projected to enroll over 3,300 new tigers to the TSU family for the fall.
It is the largest freshmen class in the history of TSU and one of the largest among HBCUs. The number does not include the...