The 74 Million – Sarah Aitken and Drayton Hawkins and Brittany Higgins Pittman
“In the plains of West Tennessee, between Jackson and Memphis, lies the quaint community of Brownsville. We are the home of “Nutbush City Limits” and its famous singer Tina Turner, NBA player Tony Delk and NBA champion Jarvis Varnado. Our community is of low socioeconomic status; 71 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Haywood County Schools has about 3,000 students, 66 percent of whom are black and 6 percent of whom are Hispanic. Although we’re small in size, there is nothing small about what’s going on in Haywood County Schools.” (more)