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The architectural restoration isn't quite complete, but an upcoming alumni reunion for a long-closed school is already evoking memories as well as opening a window on Albemarle's segregated past.

There is a lot of information available to high school students, especially seniors.

Previously, I questioned the assumption that giving Tennessee State University a chance to build an agricultural research center on Bells Bend would support agriculture even if the primary research focus is more on agribusiness than on farmers.

Metro Council member Erica Gilmore will host the Gilmore Youth Leadership Institute, to be held July 13-17 and July 20-24. The goal of the institute is to prepare young women locally so that they may act, think and engage globally.

Tennessee and Georgia have their football rivalry, but when it comes to good books, we seem collaborative in the best sense.

Jean Cheveallieris a landscape architect with Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon Inc.

Fisk University named Dr. M. Christopher Brown II as the new provost and executive vice president on Monday.

As former President Bill Clinton joined a lengthy list of academics memorializing John Hope Franklin on Thursday, work was set to begin on the Tulsa park named for the distinguished historian and one of Tulsa's most famous sons.

The night before John Hope Franklin was to receive the Medal of Freedom - the nation's top civilian honor - he hosted a party at a fancy club in Washington D.C. That evening in 1995, Franklin, then in his 80s and the nation's preeminent scholar of black history, was asked by a white woman to retrieve her coat.

Staff Photo by Gillian Bolsover Morgan O'Neal is the valedictorian at Tyner Academy.

It was Halloween night 2003. Dwayne Walker and Tyisha Martin were with a church group, ready to be scared out of their wits at a 'haunted' woods in Hendersonville.

Reporter-News photo by Thomas Metthe Wylie High School graduates make last-minute preparations and wait in their lineup before the start of the school's graduation Friday.

I've recently heard that Bethlehem Center on Charlotte Avenue was started by a black woman and a white woman.

From the early days of the civil rights movement, John Lewis was a symbol of the fight against segregation, inequality and inhumanity.

THIS COMING weekend the appetite of classical music lovers will be satiated with the intoxicating music of A Taste of Grand Opera to be performed in a beautiful new space in the West - the tiered auditorium of the International School of Port of Spain at Westmoorings.

Some of the most sacred moments in the life of a Black man in America are spent at the local barbershop.

Meharry Medical College's Hulda Lyttle Hall, named for the first black woman to pass the state nursing exam, hasn't been used by students since the early 1960s.

Who's John Work, you ask? And why should anyone care if his house is refurbished? If you look to The Tennessean for answers, you learn, "Down the street at Fisk University, the windows of the John Wesley Work House, which belonged to the former director of the Jubilee Singers, are boarded up." Saying that John Work was the former director of the ...

Historically black colleges and universities in Tennessee are hoping to hit the jackpot, winning a grant worth millions of dollars to help preserve historic campus buildings.

The National Park Service is awarding $2.5 million in federal stimulus money to help preserve the buildings and infrastructure of historically black colleges and universities, the governora s office announced today.