MEMPHIS, Tenn. - On Saturday night, Harold Ford Jr. was in fine form. Saturday marked the first debate in the Tennessee Senate race - a race that may decide which party controls the Senate come ...

Primary Source. Tennessee Has Two White Faces. I’ve Seen Both of Them. The effort to silence the “two Justins” shows that my home state is still struggling to bury its Confederate past.

New digital map to gather scattered details. Tennessee will soon debut an online map that brings together more than 1,000 points of interest that detail the role of African-Americans in the Civil War.

The complaint alleges Tennessee's new maps amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering by breaking apart a Davidson County-centric Black, urban voting population and parsing it into three ...

Asked why her two colleagues had been expelled while she had not, Johnson was blunt: “I think it’s pretty clear.I’m a 60-year-old white woman, and they are two young Black men. In listening ...

In 1964, Tennessee elected A.W. Willis Jr. as its first black state legislator since the 19th century, and in 1966, Dorothy Lavinia Brown became the first black woman to serve in the Tennessee ...

On April 6, the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Black freshman lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for exercising their First Amendment rights, protesting gun violence with ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The East Tennessee History Center is offering a glimpse into Black history with a new exhibit: Black & White: Knoxville in the Jim Crow Era. The exhibit focuses on life for ...