Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Moremi and Madikwe, the two newest residents of the Franklin Park Zoo. Moremi and Madikwe are 6-year-old African-painted dog ...

Hewitt Sawyers avoided Franklin's Public Square for most of his life. The 73-year-old grew up in the College Grove area in the midst of Jim Crow. Today, he is pastor of West Harpeth Primitive Baptist ...

A decision at a work session for Franklin aldermen on Tuesday night could clear the way for historical markers depicting the history of African-Americans in Franklin to be placed in the town square.

Historian and scholar John Hope Franklin died March 25 from congestive heart failure. He was 94. Years before there were any black history departments, Franklin was researching the stories of ...