The local nonprofit Historic Nashville, Inc. has chosen nine properties to work on protecting next year — with a focus on Second Avenue after it was damaged in the Christmas bombing.
Democratic Lawmaker Is Upset Tennessee Republicans Won’t Discuss His Plan To Teach More Black History
Chattanooga Democrat Yusuf Hakeem’s proposal to expand teaching of Black history didn’t make the agenda for this week’s meeting on education after Republican lawmakers promised to hear the bill in summer study.
Curious Nashville: How Nashville’s Oldest Black-Owned Bank Is Balancing Its Legacy With New Ambitions
One Nashville bank, however, has a storied history that’s cherished across North Nashville. Nestled near Meharry Medical College, and a stone’s throw from Fisk University and Tennessee State University, is the storied Citizens Savings Bank and Trust.
Freedom Summer: Pitfalls, Prison Terms And Conquests
Civil Rights veteran Dr. Allen Cason sits down with poet Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay to detail his firsthand account of the Montgomery riot that shifted the course of a movement, how his willingness to risk everything for the cause of integration cost Allen years of his life, and how sometimes the work of serving your community means concealing what you’ve sacrificed
Opening During A Pandemic, Nashville’s Museum Of African American Music Turns To A Virtual Curriculum
The pandemic is the latest reason the long-awaited National Museum of African American Music is delaying its opening in downtown Nashville. But in the meantime, the museum has been working on a shareable curriculum that is suddenly arriving at just the right time.
TSU Professor Battles ‘Concerted Effort To Erase Black People’ From Nashville History
Nashville is filled with Black history — but in some of the city’s most prominent places, physical reminders are missing.
Juneteenth: A Nashville Historian Sees Slavery As Only ‘Two Grandmas Away’
For many white people, the idea of slavery seems distant. But for African Americans, like Tennessee State University history professor Learotha Williams Jr., it’s much closer. “I’ve always been cognizant of the fact that slavery is only about two grandmas away from me,” Williams says.
Reavis Mitchell, Prominent Nashville Historian And Fisk University Leader, Dies At 72
One of Nashville’s most well-known historians, and a longtime administrator at Fisk University, has died at age 72.
On A Downtown Corner, A New Marker Acknowledges Nashville’s Slave-Trading Past
For many, Nashville’s newest historical marker is long overdue. About two blocks west of City Hall, the sign describes the Nashville Slave Market as a…
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