Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – The Community Resource Center is hosting its inaugural All in for Hygiene event – a fun-filled, fundraising, casino-themed evening – on Friday, September 23. “The Community Resource Center’s focus on Hygiene Insecurity has energized our donors and volunteers while providing critically important, essential items to families throughout the Middle Tennessee area,” explained Tina Doniger, Executive Director for the Community Resource Center. “We are excited to host this event to salute everyone who is partnering with us to create this kind of impact on our community.” The nearly 40-year-old organization has completely transformed over the last…
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Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–In advance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October), YWCA is announcing a partnership with Ring on Monday, Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. at its Green Hills administrative offices. YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee, the region’s leading domestic violence service provider, is teaming up with Ring to announce a new initiative in support of survivor safety. YWCA will host a press conference to announce and share details of this collaboration, including remarks from Mayor John Cooper, Secretary of State Tre Hargett, and representative on behalf of Ring, Michelle Brown. Ring, whose mission is to make neighborhoods safer, will share…
By Emil Guillermo Don’t be confused about the student loan forgiveness plan President Biden announced recently. Sure, it wasn’t all student debt. But it did address the most egregious debt foisted on students by for-profit predator “educators.” The plan would also definitely help BIPOC borrowers more than not. And yet, days after the announcement, people are questioning the idea from the Left and the Right. The Left wants no limits, all debt relieved. The Right wants none of it, and asks “Who’s going to pay for it all?” Of course, they don’t ask that when it was mostly the rich…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following nationwide scandals about teachers’ unions spying on parents, going on strike, and fighting to keep schools closed,U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) along with Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation to end the National Education Association (NEA)’s federal charter. Representatives Scott Fitzgerald and Jim Banks have introduced a version of this bill in the House of Representatives. “Over the past few years, teachers’ unions have demonstrated they will put their political priorities ahead of student wellbeing every chance they get,” said Senator Blackburn. “The NEA is by all accounts a political organization and should not be rewarded for their…
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History mourns the death of Nichelle Nichols and heralds her entry into the final frontier when her ashes are sent to deep space aboard a Vulcan rocket. Nichols is most well known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura on the 1960s television show, Star Trek. An icon of black futurism, on earth, Nichols was a singer, dancer, actress, painter, seamstress, activist, and STEM advocate. Her image is ubiquitous from former President Barack Obama’s boyhood dreams to Lola Carmichael judge’s chamber in the CBS series All Rise. Her status as…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Keith Ellison emerged as more than just a figurehead during his first term as Attorney General in Minnesota. The “People’s lawyer” displayed a firm and steady hand guiding the state through Covid restrictions, settling multi-billion-dollar drug cases with opioid distributors and Johnson & Johnson, and protecting tenants’ rights in landlord disputes. James Winston, President of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB), has earned the distinction as the voice representing Black-owned broadcasters. Together with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), Winston and NABOB are working to encourage the media…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Written and performed by LeLand Gantt, directed by Estelle Parsons and developed at NYC’s Actors Studio, Rhapsody in Black is a powerful personal narrative on racism, identity, and self-image. LeLand shares his journey to understand and transcend racism in America. We follow him from an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, to a teenager experimenting with crime and drugs to scholastic achiever and an actor with a career that lands him in situations where he is the only African American in the room. Charming and self-deprecatingly funny, LeLand imbues every word from his mouth with the passion…
By: Charles Blatcher, III ChairmanNational Coalition of Black Veterans’ Organizations Oakland, CA…. Black Veteran Leaders and representatives will meet at the National Museum of African American History in Washington DC., on September 30, 2022, at 11: o’clock AM. The leaders will call on the National Museum to explain its decision to deny the Coalition of Black Veterans request to erect a statue of the legendary Buffalo Soldier Brigadier General Charles Young on the public Museum grounds. We believe the property is the proper location for historical reasons. It is a sad commentary that we must fight for equal recognition as Black…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Experience the fallout of Victory Road with Victory Road: Fallout LIVE from Nashville, TN on Saturday, Sept. 24th from Skyway Studios. See your favorite IMPACT Wrestling Stars and Knockouts up close and LIVE as they prepare to go to battle following a wild night at Victory Road. Doors will open at 5:30PM CT and Meet and Greets will start immediately upon doors opening. Bonus Matches will begin at 6:30PM CT Showtime is set for 7PM CT Click below to purchase your tickets today! IMPACT Wrestling Presents: Victory Road Fallout Tickets, Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 7:00 PM…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Today, Mayor John Cooper named LaTanya Channel as his Director of Economic Growth and Small Business Development, effective October 3rd. Channel brings nearly 30 years of federal and state public service to her new role, and will implement the mayor’s vision for Nashville and Davidson County’s future economic development. “We are thrilled to welcome LaTanya, who will be central to advancing a vision for economic development that works for every neighborhood,” said Mayor Cooper. “Too many residents are being left behind by the tremendous growth we see in our city, and it’s our job to fix that by focusing on…