By Bruce C.T. Wright Realizing their rabid attempts at blocking the historic confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson‘s Supreme Court nomination had officially failed, Senate Republicans still tried their damnedest to upstage Thursday’s vote in clear and apparent efforts to reinforce the disrespect they’ve repeatedly directed toward the person poised to become the first Black woman U.S. Supreme Court justice. All but three Senate Republicans seemingly couldn’t wait to try to upstage the procedural vote before the final tally was certified by Vice President Kamala Harris, who was presiding over the vote in her capacity as the President of the U.S. Senate. MORE: OP-ED: For Black Women, Racism,…
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Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Billy Fields for his service to our metropolitan community. The breakfast reception will be held at Centennial Arts Center in Centennial Park. For over 35 years, Billy Fields has served the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. He has served in many different positions and worked tirelessly to make our community a better place to live, work and play. Billy co-founded the Neighborhoods Resource Center (now Neighbor 2 Neighbor) in 1997, to assist residents who want to create positive changes right where they live. On Wednesday, May 11, Billy Fields will be honored with…
WASHINGTON, DC —Today UNCF (United Negro College Fund) announced the appointment of six leading corporate executives to join its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Leaders from the following companies—Alaska Air Group, Citi, Chevron, ExxonMobil, General Motors and Intel Corp.—will join top executives from companies including Wal-Mart, Goldman Sachs, KKR and Procter & Gamble to empower UNCF to support its member historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and their students to achieve ever-higher levels of success. “UNCF and HBCUs have experienced unprecedented donations and recognition of our important mission during the past two years. Today we take a major step forward to…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–As the Nashville (TN) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated celebrates its 70th year in 2022 of providing friendship and service to the Nashville community, the organization will offer two $2,500 scholarships to Black/African American female students who plan to enroll or who are enrolled at an HBCU or other two or four-year institution of higher learning. The Ivanetta Davis Scholarship is named in honor of Mrs. Ivanetta Davis who was one of the incredible Charter Members of the Nashville (TN) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. She was an extraordinary woman, educator, and a strong and powerful member…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–AcademicInfluence.com, an up-and-coming college rankings company, in response to a challenge to traditional college rankings from a recent Malcom Gladwell podcast, has introduced a new metric to measure and rank colleges based on how effectively they use their financial resources to produce academic impact. The results are sure to turn some heads. Fisk University in Nashville ranked number 1 in Academic Stewardship. Academic Stewardship is the new measure. It’s a ratio calculated with a formula that quantifies how much academic impact a college achieves, given its overall resources. Think of it as comparing a school’s academic bang to its institutional…
NASHVILLE, TN – We can expect to see new variants of coronavirus but they won’t be like the old ones, according to a leading virologist. “It’s certain,” said Dr. Ben Neuman at the Global Health Research Complex at Texas A&M University. “For a while the virus was getting better at jumping from one person to another,” Neuman said. It reminded him of the story of the tortoise and the hare. The early variants ran very fast and very far. But he said that as people built up immunity to them, it became impossible for them to grow. “The Delta variant,…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Join R.H. Boyd for their Legacy Ball on June 17, 2022, at the Sheraton Grand Nashville Downtown in celebration of its 125th anniversary. The oldest Black printing and publishing company in the country, R.H. Boyd was founded in 1896 by Dr. Richard Henry Boyd to produce resources that give a voice to the Black experience. Today, under the leadership of Dr. LaDonna Boyd, fifth-generation president/CEO, R.H. Boyd continues its tradition of printing, publishing, and distributing Christian, inspirational, historic, educational, and cultural literature. The company also houses a full-service commercial printing facility, provides white-glove author services, and has…
TN Tribune—The Library of Congress is seeking applicants for its next Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program, which will run from Sept. 12 – Nov. 18, 2022. This 10-week paid internship is open to undergraduate juniors and seniors, graduate and doctoral students interested in learning and conducting research at the largest library in the world. The 2022 internship program will be a hybrid format that includes onsite and remote projects, allowing interns from near and far to participate. The deadline to apply is Monday, April 25, 2022. The internship program gives the next generation of diverse archivists and knowledge…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–The most recent analysis of the Vanderbilt Child Health Poll by researchers in the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy shows that insurance coverage for Tennessee children is beginning to rebound after a sharp increase in the rate of uninsured children in 2020. In 2020, about 9% of children were uninsured in the state, roughly double the rate of 4% in 2019. In late 2021, the rate decreased to 6% of Tennessee children being uninsured. The spike in uninsured children in 2020 was largely explained by sharp decreases in private insurance coverage driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (TN Tribune) – Vaco, a global talent solutions firm, has promoted internal talent acquisition leader Farah Hottle as the organization’s new senior director of diversity & inclusion, to further drive Vaco’s focus on building a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Hottle, who joined Vaco in 2006, will serve as the firm’s leader for DEI initiatives, advancing best practices, industry benchmarks, community involvement and education, and innovative hiring approaches aligned with Vaco’s core values. She was a visionary leader in the establishment of the firm’s Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Cabinet (IDEC) in 2020, where she co-authored…