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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 26, 2026

Rosetta Miller-Perry, founder and publisher of one of Tennessee's most prominent Black newspapers and a longtime Nashville community leader, died today. She was 91. A civil rights activist, Miller-Perry founded the Tennessee Tribune in 1991, overseeing its growth into one of the state's most prominent Black newspapers on North Nashville's Jefferson Street. She also established the Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce. She received the National Newspaper Publishers Lifetime Achievement Award and made a long-term influence on Nashville's Black business and media community by highlighting businesses otherwise overlooked. In 2025, she was inducted into the Nashville Entrepreneur Center Hall of Fame. Funeral arrangements are not yet available. The Tennessean has more on her life.