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....

It’s not surprising that Rep. G.A. Hardaway, D-Memphis, turned to a group of Memphis’ Black ministers to help Black people survive laws...

When Alvin Motley Jr. and his girlfriend, Pia Foster, rolled up to the Kroger Fuel Station at the Germantown and East Memphis line with...

This was supposed to be a no-brainer. As COVID-19 killed more than a half million Americans last year, scientists and immunologists...

If the charges in a police report are true, Antravion Greer should’ve stayed gone. This past Saturday, Greer allegedly unleashed bullets...

First, Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers singled out Shelby and Davidson counties for a school voucher experiment that a Nashville judge...

The frustration on the Zoom call with Tennessee’s Democratic Caucus was palpable. Palpable – because Republican lawmakers like Rep. Scott...

So, come this Saturday, Black people will be dancing near what was once the grave of a mass murderer and enslaver. It’s a party that’s...