Nashville

Veteran comedian Katt Williams is known as an elder statesman in the world of standup, but his latest show in Nashville proved to be no laughing matter after a potential bomb threat shut things down prematurely. 

A 74-year-old Black woman named Joyce Watkins can attest to being wrongfully convicted of a crime she didn't commit only to be exonerated after spending over two-and-a-half decades behind bars.

The good people who run Heart and Soul Hospice, a Black-owned healthcare service out of Nashville, have made it their mission to make the end-of-life transition exceptionally meaningful for its clientele of grieving African American families.  

A Nashville man has been charged with assault after he and his mother physically assaulted a Black male worker in the secure garage of their apartment building on Saturday night. 

A new day brings yet another new viral video of a racist white woman harassing a Black person for simply being… Black. 

The congregation at Nashville Light Mission Pentecostal Church in Tennessee came face-to-face with a gun-wielding robber during a recent Sunday service, and the person who ended up being their savior was none other than the pastor himself.

A judge on Tuesday resentenced a Tennessee death row inmate to life in prison for the second time in two years, after finding the man’s trial was marred by racism during jury selection.

The mother of a Black man fatally shot by a white former Nashville officer sobbed, screamed and knocked over a lectern Friday as she begged a judge not to accept a plea deal she says was struck in secret without her knowledge.

The “Greatest Night in Gospel Music” returns Live with the 36th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards, taping on July 10th at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, TN. Gospel legend Tye Tribbett and contemporary artist and multiple Stellar Award winner Jekalyn Carr have been tapped to host.

The assignment led to a recently-dismissed lawsuit from the family of a Black student with autism, but it's a bit of a slippery slope when determining if it was a fair decision to throw out the case.

Nashville isn’t just for country music anymore. After more than 20 years in development, the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in downtown Nashville announced this week that it will officially open to guests on Thursday, September 3, 2020 kicking off a Labor Day weekend packed with grand opening events. NMAAM features seven content […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury on Friday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in a shooting at a Nashville church two years ago that left a woman dead and seven wounded. Jurors deliberated less than five hours before delivering the verdict against Emanuel Kidega Samson. He was found guilty on all 43 counts […]