The messages, which vary in language, all appear to carry the same core message: That someone is coming to pick up Black people to take them to work as slaves and pick cotton at a nearby plantation.

Tennessee State University was founded to keep Black students out of the University of Tennessee. In 1890, states with ...

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country ...

As Black, immigrant, pregnant, and low-income people brace for the possible worst outcomes of a second Trump administration, ...

Several people around the nation, including HBCU students, have gotten disturbing text messages following Donald Trump's ...

A more than a century-old building at East Tennessee's only historically Black college burned down Monday. Here's what we know about what caused the Knoxville College fire.

Charlie Baum, an economics professor at Middle Tennessee State University, is seeking a fourth term in the House of Representatives. Since his election, Baum has supported legislation to create a ...

Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis Senior Pastor urges Memphians to register to vote for the Nov. 5 election and make a plan.

Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and ...

Election Day in Tennessee is Nov. 5. Oct. 7 is the last day to register to voter in the state. Early voting runs from Oct. 16 to Oct. 31. The last day to request an absentee ballot is Oct. 29.

That means Tennessee that bars a greater share of its population from voting than any other state in the U.S. The results are even worse for Black adults ... at Hamline University and one of ...

Election Day is finally here. In addition to the presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, voters in Middle ...