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...

My story was part of the main package of stories that won a Grand Prize in the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award contest... This...

So, in backing a law that withholds money from Tennessee’s public and charter schools if they deign to teach critical race theory,...

When Jarvis Triplett took his all-terrain vehicle for a spin nearly two weeks ago, his mother didn’t worry that he’d wind up being killed...

Ma’Khia Bryant shouldn’t be dead over chores. Angela Moore, Ma’Khia’s foster mother, told CNN that the dispute that led to the 16...

Graduates of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications named to its Hall of Fame! The college has been...

Recently, I took an Uber ride from the Memphis community of Oakhaven to go to the YMCA in Southaven, Miss. My car was in the shop, and I...

Charles McKinney, associate professor of history at Rhodes College, didn’t imagine that just before Black History Month, he’d have a 21st...