Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Centerstone, a national leader in behavioral health andaddiction services, announces the release of its seventh topical comic book. Spark Unmasked addresses matters of identity among LGBTQ+ youth and is available now to read for free at centerstone.org/comics. Centerstone Comics are part of the organization’s Prevention Services that educate and empower youth to make positive decisions when faced with common real-life issues. In an approachable way, each new story explores a complex topic with help from superhero Spark (actually a teenager named Amber Hernandez). The series has also tackled bullying, depression and suicide, online safety, sexting,…
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By Jamila Bey A new study has found that Black farmers have lost more than $326 billion in land value during the 20th century. That figure, according to researchers, is a deeply conservative estimate of how much in real dollars racist practices costs Black American farmers since 1920. Dr. Dania Francis was the lead author of the study conducted by the University of Massachusetts-Boston and published in the American Economic Association’s Papers and Proceedings journal. Her research analyzed U.S. Department of Agriculture census data to find that between 1922 to 1997, Black farmers in 17 states saw their land ownership decimated dure…
Johnnie A. Jones Sr. was 24 years old and a future civil rights lawyer not yet graduated from college when he landed on the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day invasion of 1944. He nearly died before his ship reached the shore, when the explosion of a mine sent him flying “sky high into the air,” he recalled, and onto an upper deck. He again almost died when he came under German sniper fire on Omaha Beach. “I remember it all,” Mr. Jones told a Veterans Affairs publication last year. “Sometimes reminiscing is a terrible thing. … I lay down at night, and…
To the Editor: Right now, the right to abortion care is at risk because of a deliberate, decades-long takeover of the Supreme Court by powerful right-wing extremists. We’re seeing the culmination of this takeover as the Court prepares to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that made abortion access a constitutional right. This opens the door for states to outlaw abortion and take us back to a time when women were forced to go through with an unwanted pregnancy, potentially endangering their health and hurting their ability to provide for their families. But it’s possible to undo this damage.…
The late Vernon Jordan (1935-2021) spoke often during his life about his love and his admiration for his mother, Mary. Like many siblings, he competed with his brother for her attention: “My mother had a theory that a mother’s love inexorably and disproportionately flowed to the weakest child. And so it’s not clear that I was a favorite, but what was clear that Windsor, my brother, got a disproportionate amount of caring and loving because she thought he needed it most… she would always say, ‘I love all my children,’ and when some nice Christian lady would come up and say, ‘Which one is the smartest?’ …that…
NASHVILLE, TN–The war in Ukraine is in its third month and shows no signs it will end soon. Meanwhile, United States, China, and Russia are in an arms race to be able to fight a conventional war and a nuclear one. What was unthinkable just a few years ago, is now the global strategy of the great powers and represents a sharp departure from the idea of “mutually assured destruction” that has underpinned arms control treaties for decades. “Putin’s threat is unprecedented in the post-Cold War era—and unacceptable. There has been no instance in which a U.S. or a Russian…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The former chair of the MTSU Military Science Department returned to address 13 ROTC cadets being commissioned as second lieutenants in various branches of the U.S. Army, reserves and national guard. Regarding leadership, retired Lt. Col. Joel Miller referenced his own commissioning ceremony from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, nearly 30 years ago. Miller spoke about “leading by example and the goal as leaders, not only for the military, but for the nation in general.” Miller spoke during the Friday, May 6, ceremony attended by a capacity crowd of family, friends and supporters in the MTSU…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) –Bridgestone Retail Operations (Bridgestone), a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas, welcomed this year’s top ten Maplewood High School Automotive Training Center students and their families to the Bridgestone Tower on Thursday, May 5 for an awards ceremony, tour and luncheon to celebrate their achievements as they continue their journey to becoming automotive service professionals. The program’s top three students received professional technician toolkits, and one student was offered a position as a part-time employee at a local Firestone Complete Auto Care store. Students who recently completed their ASE certification training were also recognized. “Now more than ever, the automotive industry…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 6, 2022) — Generosity continues to help define Middle Tennessee. The Big Payback’s ninth-annual 24-hour online giving event ended Thursday night with donors contributing nearly $4 million for participating area nonprofits. This year’s amount — $3,960,365 in preliminary totals — came from 25,755 total gifts. The total includes funds raised and prize Totals, with the exception of two post-event prizes: most improved and most creative. There were 6,546 first-time donors, whose gifts to organizations new to them totaled $567,517. In a new event feature, 632 volunteers have pledged 25,130 hours. In its history, The Big Payback has helped hundreds and hundreds of…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – “I’m now a Tiger!” Vice President Kamala Harris cheered as she received an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters from Tennessee State University after addressing nearly 600 undergraduates at the Spring 2022 commencement ceremony. Harris was hooded by TSU President Dr. Glenda Glover as the crowd looked on, including University trustees, cabinet members and mayors John Cooper of Nashville and Randall Woodfin of Birmingham, AL. The historic moment took place Saturday at TSU’s Hale Stadium shortlyafter Harris addressed the graduates with a heartfelt commencementspeech, marking this as her first address at a University and HBCU as Vice President of…