As Oak Ridge Police investigate an incident over Memorial Day weekend that left nine people shot and another stabbed, some in the area are hopeful that the history of the Scarboro area isn’t forgotten ...

The Oak Ridge City-Wide Juneteenth/Freedom Day celebration will take place Saturday, June 21, at the Scarboro Community ...

T he Tennessee General Assembly voted in April to approve $3.2 million primarily for funding the construction of the Scarboro 85 Monument in A.K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge. The funds will be ...

The Scarboro 85 were the brave, young African American students from the all-black Scarboro neighborhood in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in Anderson County. “What did they accomplish?

One year before the Clinton 12, two years before the Little Rock Nine and five years before Ruby Bridges, there was the Oak Ridge 85. On Sept. 6, 1955, 85 Black students from the historic Scarboro ...

'Scarboro 85,' others receive Awards of Excellence from ET Historical Society. The Oak Ridger. The East Tennessee Historical Society’s annual Awards of Excellence were presented at the organization’s ...

The Y-12 National Security Complex and Scarboro Community Alumni Association are hosting a panel discussion on Thursday, July 27, at 4 p.m. at the Zach Wamp Auditorium. The event will feature stori… ...

“The Scarboro 85 were the first students to desegregate Southeastern public schools. These young, courageous students quietly opened the modern civil rights era when they entered all-white public ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — After multiple people were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning during a block party in the Scarboro community of Oak Ridge, neighbors are sharing their thoughts.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Scarboro 85 may soon be added to Tennessee’s academic standards according to an Oak Ridge historian who is on the state standards review committee. Over the last… ...