New York, NY — Faith for Black Lives, The National Council of Churches USA (NCC), and more than 200 faith leaders from across the country issued a letter today to President Joseph Biden to establish a commission to study reparations by executive order on or before Juneteenth, June 19, 2023. The United States has a notable record of demonstrating the courage to admit when its policies and actions have resulted in harm. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate victims of the US policy to place people of Japanese descent into internment camps during World…
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For the last decade, Dr. Chavis has served as the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). NNPA is a trade association of African American owned newspapers and media companies. As a news organization, the NNPA both gathers and reports on social, economic, political, scientific, and education-focused issues. NNPA partners specifically with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase visibility and awareness of US education issues affecting Black Americans. We connected with Dr. Chavis this month and got the chance to ask a few questions about his work. What does Black History Month mean to you,…
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By Marianna Bacallao (WPLN) Nashville, TENN. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill banning drag shows in public spaces, a measure that will likely force drag shows underground in Tennessee. Other states across the country are proposing similar legislation. Lee gave his signature just hours after the measure passed in the Senate Thursday afternoon. In the same sitting, Lee signed a ban on gender-affirming health care for youth in the state. The announcement comes as a yearbook photo of the Republican governor in drag recently surfaced on Reddit. Lee says there’s a big difference between wearing a dress…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The former star of St. Louis-based television reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for arranging the shooting death of his nephew to collect a life insurance payment. James “Tim” Norman did not speak on his own behalf at the sentencing hearing in the March 2016 killing of his 21-year-old nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr. Both men had starred in the long-running OWN reality show about the family’s soul food business in the St. Louis area. Norman’s attorneys submitted several letters from family and friends asking for leniency, including from Norman’s…
NASHVILLE – Teens from across Nashville will gather this Saturday, March 4, for the Nashville Youth Climate Summit. Now in its fourth year, the Summit is hosted by the Mayor’s Youth Council, in coordination with the Oasis Center and the Cumberland River Compact. Young people at the event will participate in workshops and panel discussions on the most pressing climate issues facing the city. Experts, community leaders, and local businesses will help facilitate these conversations. The event is free and registration is open to high schoolers across Davidson County. “Climate change is one of the most pressing problems in Nashville…
By Tonyaa Weathersbee MEMPHIS, TN — A woman wearing glasses speaks while gesturing with her hands in front of a door covered in college pendant flags The Memphis-Shelby County School Board voted unanimously to choose the firm Hazard, Young, Attea, and Associates to conduct a national search for its next superintendent. Board Chair Althea Greene said she was not aware of controversies surrounding the firm. The Memphis-Shelby County School Board took a major step in its pursuit of a new leader for Tennessee’s largest school district, voting unanimously to choose the firm Hazard, Young, Attea, and Associates to conduct a…
By Joe Lowry and Trish Gully MEMPHIS, TN — It was the first day of training for the 12 newly hired Black Firefighters on July the 11th, 1955. These men had to endure more than what any regular firefighter was asked to do. They were basically treated as a total separate fire department. The officers assigned to train them told them they really did not care if they passed or not and that they did not want them there. They passed the training which took about 3 months. After their assignment to Fire Station 8 located at 832 Mississippi Blvd., Captains…
By Nick Swartsell CINCINNATI, OH — Terry Horton says he had a good plan. He was going to refinance a North Avondale apartment building he rented to predominantly Black residents, about half of whom use Section 8 vouchers, in order to buy another building he would also offer as affordable housing. But Horton, who is also Black, was taken aback at the low appraisal he got — about $359,000. He was expecting closer to $500,000, especially when a comparable property across the street sold for about that price. He believes racial bias played into the initial appraisal, and last week he…
By Phil Williams NASHVILLE, TN (WTVF) — What was in Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles’ college transcript that he didn’t want you to see? NewsChannel 5 Investigates now has the answer. Among the findings: the freshman Republican is a self-proclaimed economist who, it turns out, only took one community college Economics course, which he barely passed. And it reveals that he still hasn’t been telling the truth about his college degree. “What it shows is the level of deception that he is willing to participate in in order to get elected to the United States Congress — and that’s disturbing,” said…