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February 7, 2024
A Tennessee legislative staffer has been placed on leave after Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones says the staffer yelled at…
September 15, 2023
A Memphis couple who took in former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher when he was in high school denied in…
September 14, 2023
Four former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal civil rights charges in the violent beating and death…
Tennessee TV host proposed to on air
August 23, 2023
A Tennessee news anchor surprised his girlfriend and colleague with an on-air proposal that has gone viral.
August 18, 2023
A district attorney in Tennessee said Thursday that his office has dropped 30 to 40 cases involving the five former…
fountain honoring Black students
August 17, 2023
The fountain will commemorate the first five African American students who integrated the Johnson City-based ETSU in the late 1950s.
July 19, 2023
Tennessee state Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones have raised more than $2 million combined through about 70,400 campaign donations…
July 15, 2023
The 36-year-old rapper, label owner and producer was buying cookies near his boyhood home in Memphis when he was gunned…
Tyre Nichols
June 23, 2023
Lawyers for some of the Memphis officers named in a federal lawsuit over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols are asking that…
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, state Rep. Gloria Johnson and state Rep. Justin Jones
June 17, 2023
Republican lawmakers booted the lawmakers from office on April 6 for violating decorum rules during the protest.
DeFord Bailey
May 19, 2023
The city of Nashville is naming a street after Grand Ole Opry pioneer DeFord Bailey, the “Harmonica Wizard.”
Buddy Guy, thegrio.com
May 14, 2023
Castiglia, a singer and guitarist, won the blues rock artist award and the top prize in the blues rock album…
May 6, 2023
Oprah delighted graduates at her alma mater Tennessee State University, telling the story of how she fell one credit short…
April 25, 2023
Tennessee became the latest state in America to make Juneteenth, which celebrates the freedom of enslaved people, a paid holiday.
Lizzo in pink
April 23, 2023
The Tennessee law is part of a wider Republican effort to restrict drag shows and other LGBTQ+ public gatherings.