Branch Rickey knew that signing Jackie Robinson as the first Black player in Major League Baseball’s modern era was a potentially risky endeavor.

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

The Nashville Public Library has books, but did you know it also has cake pans, stud finders, and musical instruments? H...

Trump's cuts could kill off the ecosystem of writers, historians, museums and libraries that sustains us

Counted Out is a math documentary that investigates the biggest crises of our time—political polarization, racial and economic inequity, a global pandemic, and climate change—through an unexpected len...

Davidson County Grand Jury finds evidence of criminal and civil violations within Metro Nashville Police Department. Special prosecutor recommended.

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Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about the possibility of deep cuts

<p class="MsoNormal"><em>Book cover image forthcoming.</em></p> <p>The Promise Land community, a small village west of Nashville, Tennessee was founded after the Civil War by people who had been ensla...

Inside the Park has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Inside the Park has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Figure skating’s world championships are underway this week in Boston, a city that carries visceral memories of the sport’s improbable twin disasters.

Nine Tougaloo College students and members of the Jackson Youth Council of the NAACP staged a sit-in to protest segregation at the Jackson Public Library in 1961 and were subsequently arrested.

A Republican-backed bill that passed Tennessee’s Senate Judiciary Committee Monday would give pesticide and herbicide companies such as Bayer, the owner of Roundup, broader protection from lawsuits. S...

Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday voted in favor of abolishing the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, a 60-year-old independent agency responsible for enforcing civil righ...

At least 20 other states are considering bills restricting the use of certain food dyes and additives.

A newly-created immigration enforcement office will be largely kept secret after being exempt from state public records laws.

Lakshmi Chilukuri helped create a pilot course on race, ethnicity and gender in biology and medicine.

Texas Southern University's debate team has once again proven its prowess by clinching its fifth world championship at the 35th Annual International Forensics Association’s Speech and Debate Tournamen...

Now-resigned MTSU Volleyball Coach Chuck Crawford was also investigated in 2019 over similar allegations.

Eddie George left Tennessee State University for Bowling Green as head coach. He acknowledged the systemic underfunding at HBCUs.

Tennessee student athletes deserve the opportunity to find the right program fit, even if it means changing schools for purely athletic reasons.