Former Tennessee governor and U.S. senator Lamar Alexander presented the award to the late author's family, represented by ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

That author was Alex Haley, whose love for Knoxville and the East Tennessee region was part of what inspired him to build a home in nearby Norris, where he spent much of his later years. His house was ...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents a tribute to the late Alexander Murray Palmer ...

best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with an interview recorded in February 1988. Alex Haley died in February 1992. The post A ...

The largest statue in Knoxville, Tennessee, sits on a hill at the entrance of Morningside Park. At 13 feet, the statue is in the likeness ...