My introduction to my Chalkbeat Tennessee readers... https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/1/25/23571265/tonyaa-weathersbee-civil-rights-desegreg...

On the Tennessee Three, the Covenant School mass shooting, and what it means for students' lives and democracy when GOP lawmakers make...

By Tonyaa Weathersbee Charles McKinney, associate professor of history at Rhodes College, didn’t imagine that just before Black History...

Graduates of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications whose professional accomplishments earned them a place in...

I think I was 28 when I first learned about Juneteenth. As a child, I knew all about the Emancipation Proclamation. I even sat through a...

For people driving along I-240, and especially for those who aren’t from around here, understand this: Despite what’s assailing your eyes...

So, after passing a whole law last year to protect an imaginary white girl from crying over Critical Race Theory courses that aren’t...

On May 2, just hours after Cherisse Scott, founder and CEO of SisterReach, Memphis’ reproductive justice organization, and I were...

I had the great honor of reconnecting with Bryan Stevenson, executive director and founder of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery,...

TONYAA J. WEATHERSBEE, FINDING NATURE NEWS FEBRUARY 2022 In 1969, when my family moved to our new, ranch-style home in the Richardson...

"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever." –Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 speech, “How Long? Not Long,”...

What a way to ring in Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Here it is, more than 30 years after he led voting rights marchers over the...

By Tonyaa Weathersbee Black America Web October 2013 Don't think for one minute that they don't know this. In fact, chances are they know...

By Tonyaa J. Weathersbee (This column originally appeared on Black America Web in 2012) The Sanford, Fla., police department's sloppy...

For many, this post-pandemic Thanksgiving will be a time to celebrate the revival of rituals that are largely about filling the stomach...

Much of Young Dolph’s life was about surviving. Dolph, whose name was Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was raised by his grandmother in...

Recently, civil rights icon James Meredith was nestled on a couch in a side room of the lobby of the Peabody Hotel – a place with a name...

For a moment two decades ago, America wasn't red or blue. It was red, white and blue. Together. Or, at least it seemed that way. That...

On Gov. Bill Lee’s campaign website, the first thing it states is that he’s not a politician. That he’s a cattle rancher. A businessman....