Category : News

9 months ago

MTSU aims to help rural medical providers

By Logan Langlois MURFREESBORO, TN — Middle Tennessee State University has recently launched a PA program that is partnering up with medical facilities in many of Tennessee’s rural areas. Program Director Dr. Marie Patterson said many of these ru...

9 months ago

Les Gemmes Nashville Chapter Literary Luncheon set for May 18

NASHVILLE, TN — The Nashville Chapter of Les Gemmes will hold its 17th annual Literary Luncheon on Saturday, May 18. It begins at 11 am at the Music City Center. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Our Stories…Empowering Our Future.”& The f...

9 months ago

Howard students make NCAA history

Howard University made history last weekend in the same manner as Fisk last year and TSU will in the future, by doing something in the athletic world no one expects or anticipates an HBCU will do. Thanks to Jordan McCreary Graham as well as stude...

9 months ago

Actors accept huge challenge

By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — It’s hard to imagine a more challenging feat than portraying Civil Rights icons and legends Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.& But that’s precisely the task that’s been undertaken by the duo of Kelvin Harr...

9 months ago

Williams lands role in new film

By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — Tyler James Williams has enjoyed success as a youthful star in “Everybody Loves Chris,” and is now a regular in the third season of the ABC hit “Abbott Elementary.” However his newest endeavor is something totally diff...

News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago

Domestic work/er

LaTasha Jones There exists an idiom that aptly captures the pattern of how “the establishment” perceives Black advancement in America. It goes, “One step forward, two steps back,” dating back to Reconstruction. Perhaps it i...

News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago

Black and country

Camike Jones Who gets to decide what is and is not country music? Beyonce’s new singles, “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages,” have stirred up some controversy recently. Some country fans and radio DJs have deemed her music to not be true country m...

9 months ago

UWP Urges Vieux Fort Solidarity Against Gun Violence

As members of the United Workers Party (UWP) Constituency Branch of Vieux Fort South we stand firm in condemning all forms of violence and crime, particularly the alarming increase in gun violence in Vieux Fort. The loss of young lives to violence is...

News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago

Truly astronomical

Larry Smith It comes every four years without fail. (Well, kinda.) Some people literally mark their calendars in anticipation; others find the whole affair to be impossibly boring. But, whether we like it or not, there’s nothing that we can do to...

News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago

‘Don’t get God started’

Scripture:& John 13:33-35 Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, yo...