On Jan. 30, attorneys representing an advocacy organization for black farmers are scheduled to go before an appeals court to ...

Joe Calhoun lived in a church attic, listening as Rev. King and other civil rights leaders planned the Memphis sanitation ...

A day after Ford Motor Co. unveiled its Good Neighbor Plan, a West Tenn. group said it still wants a legally binding ...

Black people could buy clothes ... He has mentored Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, the Memphis Democrat who made national news as one of the Tennessee Three when the Republican-dominated ...

discriminating against Black Memphians, discriminating against people in mental health crises and escalating encounters with children. A reform to the Memphis Police Department, which he had ...

He said he doesn’t want people hired just because they ... Jesse Chism, D-Memphis, is the new chair of the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators. The Caucus has 19 members, three in ...

Jan. 1 marked a full year in office for Memphis Mayor Paul Young. 2024 brought the annoucement of big development deals & a ...

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton has threatened a state takeover of the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board. Pure politics is at play.

Leaders in Memphis, Tennessee, offer an example of how true legacy media survives and thrives. Since October 1948, WDIA has been the longest-running radio station programmed for Black people in ...

A sprawling cemetery on Chattanooga's Missionary Ridge where Ed Johnson was laid to rest after he was lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge in 1906 has been nominated to the National Register of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations have kicked off at King's former congregation in Atlanta with a 70-member choir's ...