The 65th Grammy Awards, held this past Sunday in Los Angeles, featured several fascinating firsts and notable new additions.
Celebrating local Grammy winners
In this episode, we check in with Nashville Public Radio’s Jewly Hight about other local winners and what the awards mean for the Nashville music industry. In honor of AOB’s big wins, we’ll revisit an earlier interview with Larry Jenkins, TSU’s assistant director of bands.
The historic underfunding of Tennessee State University, and what comes next
TSU announced its plans to spend a $250 million lump sum from the state on improvements to its campus. The money comes after the bipartisan Joint Land-Grant Institution Funding Study Committee found that between 1956 and 2006, the state of Tennessee underfunded Tennessee State University by as much as $544 million. The University of Tennessee, was fully funded over this period.
The growth of HBCU athletics
In this episode, we’ll hear from students and coaches from HBCU athletic programs in Nashville about the growing interest in HBCU sports and what it means for Black athletes.
TSU is welcoming its largest-ever incoming class this year
More than 2,500 freshmen and transfer students expected to arrive on campus for the first time this school year. It’s part of a larger trend of HBCUs gaining popularity.
‘I know it has been a long hard road’: Vice President Kamala Harris addresses pandemic, politics in TSU commencement speech
Vice President Kamala Harris gave a commencement speech to graduates at Tennessee State University on Saturday. The speech did not shy away from all the soon-to-be graduates faced in recent years and the realities of the world they’re now entering.
Black males aren’t graduating with their peers from Tennessee colleges. What are the solutions?
The six-year graduation rate for Black males at public colleges is at least 20 percentage points below the rates of their peers each year, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.
Nashville native and countertenor Patrick Dailey finally steps onto the city’s biggest classical stage
Nashville native Patrick Dailey is an opera singer who has performed internationally to great acclaim. Now after several years of singing, teaching and collaborating here, Dailey is making his performance debut with the Nashville Symphony as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah.
At neglected TSU campus, students want a greater say over incoming funds
They’re pushing for better faculty pay and funding to make the campus safe for students went disabilities.
TSU is set to receive $250 million under Gov. Lee’s funding proposal. Now lawmakers want a way to track how the money is spent.
Tennessee State University has more than $300 million dollars in deferred maintenance needs.
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