At 90, Rosetta Miller-Perry Is Still Improving Nashville

Rosetta Miller-Perry was inducted into the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's Hall of Fame on October 20, 2025, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

For 60 years, Rosetta Miller-Perry has shown up for Nashville's Black community. After serving in the military, she moved to North Nashville and never left. In 1991, she founded The Tennessee Tribune because those stories needed telling. The newspaper published every single week for 34 years—stories mainstream media ignored.

When infrastructure didn't exist, she built it. The Greater Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce. The Anthony J. Cebrun Journalism Center. Platforms for Black businesses and Black journalists that wouldn't have existed otherwise. The National Newspaper Publishers Association recognized her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Tennessee inducted her into the Women's Hall of Fame.

But Rosetta wasn't done. At 90, she's still solving problems in North Nashville that others overlook. Still building. Still showing up. Still refusing to let her community be forgotten or ignored.

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