The City of Brownsville, Tennessee, is planning to honor its hometown hero, Tina Turner, with a monument at Heritage Park. Turner, known as the “Queen of Rock’n Roll,” was born in Brownsville in 1939. The statue will be placed across the street from her old high school, near the Delta Heritage Center and Tina Turner […]

Nyesha Shade stepped in and stepped up to assist a courageous little girl from her school in Brownsville, Brooklyn.   The area of Brownsville has long had the unfortunate reputation as one of the most violent and impoverished areas in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, N.Y. However, plenty of good has come from the neighborhoods as […]