By Tribune staff NASHVILLE, TN — Public service is something many good people avoid these days, unwilling to deal with the demands, low pay, and hassles that are a routine part of the job. But that has never been the case with District 1 Councilman Nick Leonardo. Just last week he was gathering signatures for easements in the Bordeaux Hills neighborhood, accompanied by his six-year-old daughter Adriana, as part of the campaign behind a $3 million dollar storm sewer project. His efforts were aimed at preventing another disaster like the one that occurred in 2010, when the neighborhood was ravaged…
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Niara Savage, Fisk University Student/Tribune Intern I will never forget the unequivocal juxtaposition that arose in the moments following Barack Obama’s initial 2008 victory and Donald Trump’s unprecedented 2016 win. Obama’s win (at least in the African-American and liberal circles I ran in) marked a monumental moment in American history. His landslide victory was the first presidential election I can remember (I was eleven years old at the time). To this day I recall the joy, the pride, the excitement, that seemed to surround me at the time. As a growing teenager, Barack Obama symbolized unity, progress, and the hope…
Staff Reports NASHVILLE, TN — Lonnell Matthews says Davidson County’s next juvenile court clerk should be more than a records keeper. With 15 years in youth development for the YMCA, Matthews says, “I don’t see those as records. I see those as families.” He wants to be “a keeper of families.” He coordinated Mayor Megan Berry’s Youth Violence Summit 2016 with co-chairs Judge Sheila Calloway and Criminal Court Clerk Howard Gentry, and is following-up on a youth diversion proposal. Matthews was district executive director of youth outreach at the YMCA for middle- and high school students in Middle Tennessee. Matthews…
The 2017 FIAT® 500 C is the real “Italian Job,” so to speak. The stylish exterior design immediately grabs attention. The one-touch power sunroof on the FIAT® 500 can tilt from the rear for ventilation, or slide rearward to provide a full opening, this is a feature that brings out the cool in almost every driver. But both drivers and passengers are pleasantly surprised to see the Fiat’s spacious interior. It has an interior designed to accommodate your lifestyle, with a versatile split-folding rear seat, that allows for plenty of room for your stuff, your friend’s stuff and even your dog’s stuff.…
Kaliss Stephens continues to talk with Rev. Sanders on his contributions to the HIV/AIDS community.
Kaliss Stephens talks with Rev. Sanders on his contributions to the HIV/AIDS community.
Niara Savage, Fisk University Student/Tribune Intern NASHVILLE, TN — ‘Stay woke.’ Once no more than a colloquial phrase, common only among a small number of social circles, those two words have become a prominent social media hashtag, the chorus of Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” and a motto for an entire generation of young Black Americans. “Stay woke” morphed into a widely used term after it became associated with the Black Lives Matter Movement in 2014, and can be used to describe a state of consciousness and awareness of systematic racism and racial injustices. But what is awareness without action? There’s more…