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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Apr 7, 20231 min read
My passion for education equity is informed by my past — and our future
My introduction to my Chalkbeat Tennessee readers... https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/1/25/23571265/tonyaa-weathersbee-civil-rights-desegreg...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Apr 7, 20231 min read
So proud of the work my Chalkbeat Tennessee team...
On the Tennessee Three, the Covenant School mass shooting, and what it means for students' lives and democracy when GOP lawmakers make...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Mar 26, 20234 min read
For Memphis professors, the Capitol riots added a horrific chapter to Black history
By Tonyaa Weathersbee Charles McKinney, associate professor of history at Rhodes College, didn’t imagine that just before Black History...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Mar 25, 20231 min read
I'm one of 161...
Graduates of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications whose professional accomplishments earned them a place in...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Jun 22, 20221 min read
As racist laws stifle Black history and humanity, Juneteenth rings bittersweet | Weathersbee
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...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Jun 22, 20224 min read
Memphis doesn't love President Trump. We especially don't love him on Juneteenth | Weathersbee
For people driving along I-240, and especially for those who aren’t from around here, understand this: Despite what’s assailing your eyes...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
May 18, 20224 min read
The Buffalo shooting shows Tennessee lawmakers banned the wrong race theory | Weathersbee
So, after passing a whole law last year to protect an imaginary white girl from crying over Critical Race Theory courses that aren’t...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
May 7, 20225 min read
If Roe falls, anti-science lawmakers will rule Tennessee women's lives. Many will die|Weathersbee
On May 2, just hours after Cherisse Scott, founder and CEO of SisterReach, Memphis’ reproductive justice organization, and I were...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Feb 10, 20224 min read
Putting blacks in prison is the latest legacy of slavery
I had the great honor of reconnecting with Bryan Stevenson, executive director and founder of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery,...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Feb 5, 20224 min read
How walking home from school led me into the embrace of nature
TONYAA J. WEATHERSBEE, FINDING NATURE NEWS FEBRUARY 2022 In 1969, when my family moved to our new, ranch-style home in the Richardson...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Jan 24, 20224 min read
'How long, O' Lord?' Former Stax owner revisits the question MLK Jr. asked in 1965 | Weathersbee
"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever." –Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 speech, “How Long? Not Long,”...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Jan 17, 20223 min read
The cost of comfort is worth fulfillment of King's dream
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...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Dec 12, 20213 min read
Shutdown is Tea Party's punishment for a nation that elected Obama
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...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Nov 25, 20213 min read
As it was then and is now: Black youths are expected to be perfect to be valued
By Tonyaa J. Weathersbee (This column originally appeared on Black America Web in 2012) The Sanford, Fla., police department's sloppy...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Nov 24, 20213 min read
This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the Greenway's gifts - and the kitten among them | Weathersbee
For many, this post-pandemic Thanksgiving will be a time to celebrate the revival of rituals that are largely about filling the stomach...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Nov 24, 20213 min read
Young Dolph was killed as he transitioned from survivor to thriver. That's what's sad|Weathersbee
Much of Young Dolph’s life was about surviving. Dolph, whose name was Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was raised by his grandmother in...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Oct 8, 20214 min read
'My fight was against all white supremacy': At 88, James Meredith is still a warrior|Weathersbee
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...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Sep 12, 20215 min read
After 9/11, Americans united to fight terrorists. Why can't we unite to fight a virus? | Weathersbee
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...
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Tonyaa J Weathersbee
Sep 8, 20214 min read
Gov. Lee's loyalty to anti-maskers shows why most businessmen shouldn't govern | Weathersbee
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....
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