Belmont Vision Multimedia. (Haley Ramsey) When Brenda Odell was a child in the 1950s, she felt hope for her small Black community near Memphis, Tennessee, called Boxtown, when a coal power plant was built nearby.  It convinced her father and many others that it would bring jobs, economic prosperity and a chance at chasing the American Dream that many Black Americans had only heard about but never seen for themselves.  The coal power plant did bring economic prosperity for the people running...

Alice Ann Barge holding a photo of her and her late-husband, Daniel Barge  (Seth Thorpe) Walking from her parents’ house to campus, Alice...

Belmont women’s basketball lost a close battle on the road to the Murray State Racers 83-78 Sunday afternoon.  The Racers played their...