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3 weeks ago | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
WASHINGTON, DC —Spring is in the air and cherry blossom trees sprinkle cherry blossoms all around the city’s Tidal Basin Pool. As the season warms and welcomes thousands of sight seers to the nation’s capital, the nation’s leadership is shifting into high gear.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
WASHINGTON—Racial segregation in public school systems across the South for children in the K-12 school years has returned to levels not seen since the 1960’s, according to the Southern Education Foundation in an updated report issued this month. The report, titled “Miles to Go,” reviews the “state of education” for Black students in the region some 70 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its unanimous ruling on the Brown vs.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tennessee State University, led by its mighty Tigers football team supported by an entourage of students, faculty and alumni, converged on the nation’s Capitol city this past weekend, harvesting a 27-14 victory over Howard University’s Bisons, an environment which may have created opportunities for students, job seekers and internship possibilities and much chatter about the upcoming elections.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
When Vanderbilt University rewrote college football history early this month, soundly defeating the No.1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide watched by a 28,934-person capacity crowd at the First Bank campus football stadium, the post-game victory celebration spread to the end of Broadway to the banks of the Cumberland River where a small jubilant growing crowd left the winning game Goal Post.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
WASHINGTON—This year’s highly divisive election campaigns to run the nation’s government enter the home stretch this fall as Democrats recently staged a national convention in Chicago last week, officially giving resounding support to the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid to succeed President Joe Biden after national elections this fall. Harris, a native of Oakland, Calif., spent last week campaigning with her running mate, Minnesota Gov.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
WASHINGTON – The re-energized national campaigns for the nation’s top political job were thrust into even higher gear this week as Vice President Kamala Harris began a nationwide campaign tour introducing her surprise running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a 60-year-old former schoolteacher, backed by a wide range of service in elected state and federal responsibilities. He is no stranger to tough challenges in his personal and professional life.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
By Reginald StuartWASHINGTON, D.C. — Scores of presidents of historically Black colleges across the country, including Dr. Glenda Glover, retired president of Tennessee State University (TSU), have joined a growing chorus of leading educators expressing their appreciation to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their work on be-half of the institutions, oft-times bypassed year-after-year by federal funding agencies and despite luke-warm support from conservative politicians.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
By Reginald StuartTwo of the state’s education champions –former Governor and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander and noted attorney Rita Geier – were saluted this summer by the University of Tennessee board of trustees with honorary doctorate degrees. The actions, taken at a late June board meeting, came amid a packed board agenda that included raising tuition for the first time in four years to attend the multi-campus institution, based in Knoxville, and updating the guaranteed admissions policy.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
By Reginald StuartDr. Valerie White, one of the nation’s leading journalism educators, is leaving her post later this year at Florida A & M University, after 23 years in service to the institution, education colleagues say.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
tntribune.com | Reginald Stuart
By Reginald StuartWASHINGTON, DC — Lawmakers from around the nation gathered on Capitol Hill this week to resume their congressional battles with Middle Tennessee’s freshman Congressman Andy Ogles standing firm championing the causes of conservatives Republicans. Ogles, a former Mayor, and state lawmaker in middle Tennessee, acknowledges the challenges of turning a traditionally Democratic seat in the House back to Republicans after more than a century.
