The Nashville Metropolitan Minority Caucus is made up of 10 members from the Metro Council that fight for equity, diversity and equality for the Black and Brown communities in Nashville. On Tuesday night they held their 2021 caucus reception in…
Fifty-three years after Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and 38 years after his birth date became a national federal holiday, America is now facing another pivotal moment of national racial reckoning. While parades and other festive gatherings for the heroic…
Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the nation’s most renowned civil rights leaders and activists, will join Tennessee State University as a Distinguished Guest Lecturer for the 2021 spring semester starting in January. Sharpton will be a featured lecturer in the…
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – D. B. Wright, former head of a non-profit religious organization in Washington, D.C., was well taken care of by his leadership board. He enjoyed an employment package that included full health care among other benefits. “Being gainfully employed…
The August 23 police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Kenosha, Wis., triggered yet another round of community protests and national news coverage of a Black man. A series of multiple gunshots fired by a local police officer were…
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — On the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, tens of thousands of protestors gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial to protest the continued killings of African American women, children and men by law enforcement and vigilantes…
