The annual “End Your Year Strong” Conference Provides Tips toward navigating the new normal, spiritual, personal, and professional development, mental health, leadership, entrepreneurship, succeeding in an economic downturn, and much more in 2023 ATLANTA, DECEMBER 14, 2022: Visionary futurist, thought leader, and global life and business strategist Dr. Cindy Trimm has announced that registration is open for her annual conference, End Your Year Strong. End Your Year Strong is an annual conference created to provide an elevated experience that empowers attendees to boldly move forward and engage in an ever-changing world. End Your Year Strong will be held December 16-17…
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NASHVILLE – The final six defendants in a RICO conspiracy operating out of Clarksville, Tennessee, were sentenced last week in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee. This multi-year investigation resulted in federal charges against 32 gang members and associates, including 12 in this RICO indictment. For more than a decade, Gangster Disciples members engaged in drug trafficking, intimidated witnesses to prevent them from cooperating with law enforcement, protected the gang’s drug territory, financed the drug trafficking enterprise, and targeted members of rival gangs and others through murders, attempted murders, and other shootings. …
New York, NY – Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), released the following statement on the release of Brittney Griner from a Russian prison. The announcement that Griner was on her way home this morning reflects pressure from her family, friends, fellow athletes, and Rev. Sharpton to bring the WNBA superstar home. “After nine horrific months behind bars, Brittney Griner’s family, friends, and teammates can finally breathe a sigh of relief that she’s on her way home. For months we kept the pressure on President Biden to do everything in his power to bring Brittney…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Music City Center announced Industrial Staffing of Tennessee as the 2022 Vendor of Excellence at the annual MCC Purchasing/Diversity Business Enterprise Appreciation Breakfast held Wednesday, December 7. MCC supports small, minority-owned, women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses through its DBE program. The annual appreciation breakfast is an opportunity to reflect on the previous year and preview the upcoming year, while thanking the facility’s contracted DBE vendors and suppliers for their trusted partnerships. “Our small and diverse business partners are a critical part of our success,” said MCC President & CEO Charles Starks. “Many of these businesses have been with…
Franklin, Tenn. (TN Tribune)-Franklin’s historic Shorter Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church will turn 154 years old in 2023. The African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest African American denomination in the United States, founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816. In the aftermath of the Civil War, in 1868 former enslaved AfricanAmericans created a sanctuary called Shorter Chapel. Shorter Chapel AME Church was originally housed on Second Avenue South atChurch Street in what was once the Franklin First United Methodist Churchbuilding. Franklin First UMC was moving to its location on Fourth Avenue and soldthe building to African American worshippers for $1500.…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)-Sherlene Cooper Fry passed away December 3, 2022. Ms. Fry was former senior administrative assistant in the Office of Communications and Marketing at Meharry Medical College. She was a beloved member of the Meharry community for 19 years, all of which were spent in the Office of Communications and Marketing. She was a friend to her Meharry colleagues and mentor to many students. She was also an active member of the Meharry Association of Office Personnel, serving as president, and was quick to volunteer as a worker at Meharry events even after she left her position at the…
By Alex Gangitano LOS ANGELES, CA — Vice President Kamala Harris will swear in Los Angeles Mayor-elect Karen Bass (D), who is set to become the first woman mayor of the city. The mayoral inauguration ceremony will take place on Sunday, December 11 and Harris will travel there this weekend to swear her in, Harris’s office announced earlier this week. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will also attend. Bass, a member of Congress, is a progressive ally of Harris and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA.). Her race was officially called more than a week after Election Day last month, and she defeated…
One of the greatest jazz influences ever, Louis Armstrong, said in the song “Christmas Night in Harlem” that “Harlem was one of the greatest communities in the world”. Pastor Paula B. Smith and the music ministry of Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church is on a mission to create that vibe as it is preparing to host A Big Band Christmas. “Interpretations” will be held on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 7 pm in the church sanctuary located at 2334 Herman Street. This is the church’s first major public event since the beginning of Covid, which started in March of 2020.…
President Joseph announced this morning that W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner, “B.G.,” has been freed from a Russian prison. In a press release, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that a one-to-one swap for Griner was made at the Abu Dhabi airport for convicted Russian arms trader Viktor Bout. According to U.S. officials, Biden approved the release of Bout, commuting his 25-year prison sentence. The Russian government refused to include ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, imprisoned in Russia on false espionage charges. Speaking about Whelan, President Biden acknowledged that while the U.S. did not secure his release, “We are not giving up. We…