Macy’s and Nashville CARES welcome seven local women to bring awareness to National Women and Girls HIV / AIDS Awareness Day on March 10 National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Day is March 10 and 1 in 9 women with HIV don’t know they have it. To bring awareness to this mission, Macy’s Green Hills opened the doors early for a private shopping event for seven women from Nashville CARES who have been impacted by HIV/ AIDS. Thanks to a partnership with Nashville CARES and a $1,750 donation from Macy’s, seven women living with HIV shopped for brand new clothes, accessories…
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During my 34 years teaching vocational education (shop), I taught my students a new word every week. It turned some D- students to B+ and changed their attitude from negative to positive. “Yes, I Can”. Our parents and students need to add at least one new word to their vocabulary every week for the 52 weeks in 2022. I will post one or two every Sunday on my Facebook page (James Hankins). The word for today is METAMORPHOSIS. It means to change. EXAMPLE: change from a lazy D- student to a B+, no vaccine to fully vaccinated, no mask to…
By Ashley Benkarski NASHVILLE, TN—Fisk University’s John Lewis Center for Social Justice announced a newfellowship program in honor of its late alumni’s lifelong fight for justice last Wednesday.The three Fellowships are focused on policy, arts, and S.T.E.M. and were made possible with the support of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies. Founded in 2019, the Center’s mission is “to foster and advance social justice across everysphere of contemporary society by engendering rigorous research, applying scholarship, artistic production, and community engagement locally as well as globally,” the institution’s press release explained. “Fisk University has always been synonymous with a global…
By Pastor William D. Smart “OxyContin helped ignite the new heroin market that expanded as prescription pain pills spread coast to coast. Before OC, opioids came mixed with acetaminophen to lessen the chance of abuse…Until OxyContin. It came with no abuse deterrent and took patients up to high daily doses very quickly.” Source Then once people are cut off from their prescriptions, they look to buy on the street. Now with fentanyl more and more prevalent, the addiction from opioids has cost too many people their lives. Fentanyl-laced deaths are in the news daily, and I know families impacted by opioid addiction and tragic…
Victoria Kingdom, 93, is the first African American woman to manage the locker room at PGA National in 1985. When it’s sunny, you’ll find 93-year-old Victoria Kingdom hitting golf balls in her backyard in Riviera Beach. The Honda Classic is now creating a scholarship in her name for minority kids.
Valerie Boyd, world-renowned author of the definitive biography of Zora Neale Hurston, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, died February 12, 2022, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. A native Atlantan, Valerie Jean Boyd was born on Dec. 11, 1963, to Roger and Laura Jean (Burns) Boyd. Her mother was a homemaker, and her father owned a gas station and later a tire shop in the Bankhead area of the city where she grew up. Boyd was the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism…
The application deadline for the second cycle of the Scaling Success Grant program, originally planned for early April, will now be Wednesday, May 4, at 11:59 p.m. The application portal to submit a proposal for the May 4 deadline will open on April 4. The Scaling Success Grant supports faculty who are ready to scale their work up to increasingly impactful team research, scholarship and creative works, particularly in the form of larger awards from external sponsors. This program requires applicants to have expressed interest from a sponsor. Successful applicants will demonstrate that their proposed work plan and budget will increase…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many people began working from home. But for Kiarra Smith, home wasn’t where she was working from – it’s what she was working towards. “Someone has to want to break the cycle and use the resources they have to move out and provide a better situation for their family,” Smith said. “I was that person for my family.” Smith moved into a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment at the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency’s (MDHA) Neighborhood Housing in 2012. She began hearing about the Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) program offered…
Meet Pastors Corey Brooks and Jasper Williams. In the Middle Ages, they might have been called “fools for Christ.” The Sermon on the Mount assured that such men were storing up “treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.” Equal part pastors, diplomats, and prophets, they are men of action who have turned the conventional narrative about race and poverty on its head in order to strengthen black America. Some might even call them saints. Pastor Corey Brooks stood at the altar of New Beginnings Church on the South…
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — A local business is partnering with Marquette University to bring students with dietary restrictions more food options in the dining hall. Through Marquette’s Eat Local initiative, products from Pink Bakery Inc. are coming to Marquette. Nubian Simmons is the owner of Pink Bakery, which makes allergen-free baking mix products. It’s a local, Black-owned business on the near west side, and Simmons says the idea behind her business stems from her personal challenges with food allergies. “I’ve been allergic to milk my whole life. We would try some of the allergy-free things and they weren’t that good,…