The Difference Between Change and Progress

By Rosetta Miller-Perry There is a subtle, yet important and distinct difference between change and progress. Change is inevitable in all phases of life, but can be either positive or negative, depending on the circumstances, events and personalities involved. Progress represents improvement, something and/or someone seeing their situations benefited or advanced. For Nashville’s Black community, too many times in recent years we’ve seen more and more evidence of how much Nashville has changed, but we haven’t exactly seen or enjoyed many benefits from it. While other communities may indeed have progressed as a result of the continued, often unregulated and unchecked growth of the city, the Tribune has witnessed first hand how little of that has made its way into Black neighborhoods or aided the majority of& Nashville’s African-American populace. The latest example of that is the recent sale of the historic Morris building. For those unaware of it, the Morris Memorial Building was designed by the Black-owned architecture firm McKissack & McKissack in 1926 on land where Blacks were once sold into slavery. Now located at 330 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, it is also designated on the National Register of Historic Places, and billed as the only...