Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Keva Inc. will be hosting its 5th Annual Citywide Silence the Violence Nashville, August 6th, 10am to 8pm at Hadley Park. Keva is an organization focusing on serving the community by providing resources, increased access to social services, and addressing issues having an impact on the most vulnerable. Silence the Violence is an annual event focusing on bringing the city together, to adversely impact crime and violence. Violence has plagued our communities. National and local statistics support that for us to “silence the violence” we need to address poverty, housing, and other social issues. Rev. Venita Lewis,…
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New York, July 19, 2022…As companies face increasing pressure to take stands on a variety of social and political issues, a new survey finds that only 10 percent of companies are responding publicly to the recent Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, on women’s reproductive rights. And only 4 percent are publicly addressing the decision, New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, on gun regulation. But, The Conference Board survey reveals that a majority have either addressed or plan to address the decision on women’s reproductive rights internally. Significantly fewer, however, are internally addressing the ruling on gun regulation.…
NASHVILLE, TN — Keva, Inc. will be hosting its 5th Annual Citywide Silence the Violence Nashville, August 6th, 10 am to 8 pm at Hadley Park. Keva is an organization focusing on serving the community by providing resources, increased access to social services, and addressing issues having an impact on the most vulnerable. Silence the Violence is an annual event focusing on bringing the city together, to adversely impact crime and violence. Violence has plagued our communities. National and local statistics support that for us to “silence the violence” we need to address poverty, housing, and other social issues. Rev. Venita Lewis,…
NASHVILLE, TN — Dismas House, one of the largest residential reentry programs in the state of Tennessee, is pleased to announce this year’s host for the agency’s signature fundraiser, the Forgiveness Luncheon on Tuesday, October 11. Returning to serve as emcee of the 2022 event is Emmy Award winning meteorologist Lelan Statom. Statom has been a trusted television presence in Middle Tennessee since 1993 with the NewsChannel5 Network. Readers of the Nashville Scene and The Tennessean have voted him favorite weather anchor in Reader’s Polls for each paper. In addition to his daily on-air duties as the station’s lead meteorologist,…
NASHVILLE, TN — At the turn of the 20th Century, Tennessee remained the only state supporting legal segregation without a public college for African Americans. In 1907, with the news that Tennessee legislators planned to authorize publicly supported normal schools, several of Nashville’s African-American leaders demanded the inclusion of a school for blacks. In 1909, The General Assembly authorized a normal school in each grand division and another school for the state. Local leaders including Preston Taylor, Benjamin Carr, Henry Allen Boyd, James C. Napier, T. Clay Moore, and W. S. Ellington formed the Colored Agricultural and Industrial Normal Association.…
By journal-isms Jacqueline Charles, who has reported on Haiti and the English-speaking Caribbean for the Miami Herald for more than a decade, is the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2022 Journalist of the Year, NABJ announced Friday. Charles is the first person to win the honor twice, the initial time in 2011 after covering the catastrophic 2010 earthquake in the country that killed thousands. NABJ’s announcement did not state its reason for Charles’ selection, including it among a list of all of the special honors it plans to present at its Aug. 3-7 convention in Las Vegas. But Garry Pierre-Pierre, founder and publisher of the…
NASHVILLE, TN — The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) will open the affordable housing waiting list for Vine Hill Studio Apartments, an elderly and disabled property, on a first-come, first-served basis from noon July 20, 2022, to 3 p.m. Aug. 3, 2022. Anyone currently on the waiting list for Vine Hill Studio Apartments will need to reapply. In order to qualify for elderly and disabled housing, the head of household must be at least 62-years-old or have a documented disability. Applications will be accepted online only and can be submitted 24 hours a day during the open application period at www.nashville-mdha.org (click on the…
LEBANON, TN — Derek and Micayla Giffin of Obion County are this year’s Achievement Award winners for the Tennessee Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers program. The results were announced during the YF&R Summer Conference held at the Farm Bureau Expo Center in Lebanon, Tenn. As a fifth-generation farmer, Derek operates Giffin Farms alongside Micayla and also his father and cousin near Union City. The family farm is a diversified row crop operation consisting of more than 1,000 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and occasionally other small grains to increase diversity and produce their own cover crop seed. The couple…
NASHVILLE, TN — Join the Parthenon Chapter of the Links, Incorporated on Thursday, July 28th from 6:30PM-8:30PM at the historic Belcourt Theater where we will host Nashville’s premiere screening of the award-winning documentary, Surviving Sex Trafficking. Unbeknownst to many, human trafficking includes both forced labor or services and sex trafficking. The film will bring much-needed awareness to human trafficking and dispel myths. Directed by Sadhvi Siddhali Shree, actress and activist Alyssa Milano; talk show host, Jean- nie Mai; and rapper, Jeezy are executive producers. In 2012 President Obama referred to human trafficking as “modern day slavery,” where traffickers profit from…
By Chuck Hobbs (Hobbservation Point) From my vantage point, real courage is knowing that you are walking into the valley of the shadow of death—and still walking towards it boldly and confidently. On March 7, 1965, the late John Lewis, then a 24-year-old leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), did just that as he calmly led hundreds of marchers down the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to a vicious beating by police officers and assorted non deputized cretins—and into the annals of history for bravery and courage under duress. The late John Lewis standing on the very…