When legislation is introduced to dismantle programs that promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—programs designed to ...

Meharry president James Hildreth is part of a national effort to educate more Black doctors. State of play: Tennessee has consistently outperformed the nation when it comes to educating new Black ...

Attorneys for Tennessee death row men Oscar Smith and Byron Black are calling on Governor Bill Lee to issue a temporary halt on executions until March 2026, when a trial on the constitutionality of ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Jesse Chism, the chairman of the Tennessee Black Caucus. Republican members of the Tennessee State Assembly are catching backlash after taking photographs with whips in what harkens back to the ...

The Scarboro 85 were the first young Black students to desegregate a southeastern public school after attending class in 1955 ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The Tennessee legislature has approved Governor Bill Lee's proposal to fund a new civil rights monument that honors the Scarboro 85, a group of Black students who attended ...