SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The city’s annual observance of Fair Housing Month began Thursday, April 6, when Mayor Allen Joines reads a proclamation at noon at the Allegacy Federal Credit
The Reverend Dr. Darryl Aaron, our pastor at First Baptist Church, Highland Avenue, is black. He and his family live about two blocks from our family, in a neighborhood that
(pictured above: Volunteers work at Happy Hill Cemetery last Thursday.) More than five dozen Mormon teenagers aided in the arduous task of reverting a historic African American graveyard to some
More than six million African American adults in the United States have signs of kidney disease – a total equal to the population of Tennessee. African Americans experience the highest
(above: Sonjia Kurosky stands outside Samaritan Ministries.) Across the city, service providers are amping up their efforts to accommodate the homeless