WASHINGTON -The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), the oldest minority real estate trade association in America, today named C. Renee Wilson, of Cleveland, as its Executive Director. Founded in 1947, NAREB strives to increase Black homeownership. Wilson has served as Interim Executive Director for the past seven months and has been part of the NAREB team since 2005. After serving as Special Assistant to the President and Special Projects Manager, she was named Executive and Management Consultant in 2007 and then National Relationship Manager in 2009. “NAREB is fortunate to have someone with Renee’s qualifications as our Executive…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee hosted its 30th annual Academy for Women of Achievement celebration with a cocktail reception and pinning ceremony at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel on Tuesday, Feb. 22. To ensure the health and safety of the community, the honorees and small number of guests were socially distanced and wore masks for the duration of the event. The 2022 AWA honorees are Dr. Glenda Glover, president of Tennessee State University; Diane Lance, department head of Metro Nashville’s Office of Family Safety; Wanda Lyle, community leader and past managing director and president of UBS Business Solutions US LLC; Zulfat…
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is offering virtual programs for all ages centered on women’s history and influence. The museum will feature a book discussion with author Tomiko Brown-Nagin focused on Civil Rights Queen, the first major biography of Constance Baker Motley, an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary and one of the nation’s most influential judges. The museum will also host a film discussion featuring Unapologetic, a POV documentary directed by Ashley O’Shay that follows abolitionists Janaé Bonsu and Bella BAHHS into…
Nashville, Tenn. — TEDx Talks, a globally recognized platform for “ideas worth sharing,” has released “Why You Should Savor Giving.” This TEDxWomen talk features Nashvillian Lisa Swift-Young, who credits her mother’s involvement in the Tennessee Civil Rights Movement, as a catalyst for her work in philanthropy at The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT). As an author and co-host of the locally produced Give Black, Give Back Conversations for CFMT, Lisa uses this TEDx talk to highlight the importance of giving with purpose. “Legacy is what you live, not what you leave,” says Lisa Swift-Young, a philanthropy advisor at The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and for her…
Pope Francis has appointed the Most. Rev. Shelton Fabre as the next archbishop of Louisville, Ky. Archbishop Fabre is one of two Black U.S. Catholics serving as archbishop, along with Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C. He comes to Louisville with years of pastoral experience, first as the auxiliary bishop of New Orleans from 2006 to 2013 and then the bishop of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana from 2013 to 2022. Gloria Purvis welcomes Archbishop Fabre to the podcast to discuss a range of issues affecting the church and Black Catholics today, most notably the sin of racism. Archbishop Fabre…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are calling for a wider study of racial differences in high blood pressure after finding two clinical measures that are significantly greater in Blacks with resistant hypertension, as compared to whites with resistant hypertension. Those clinical biomarkers, seen in blood plasma samples, may be related to the much greater heart disease rates that Blacks face. Black adults in the United States have one of the highest rates of hypertension in the world, and the consequences of that hypertension are severe. Hypertension is an underlying factor for more than half of Black…
TN Tribune Staff This is a frightening moment. Russia has invaded Ukraine, and certainly those most frightened right now are the people of Ukraine. But violent aggression – a war mounted by a country with vast military resources against a smaller, weaker country – strikes fear in all of us. As a Washington Post headline writer recently wrote: The Ukraine crisis is “5,000 miles away but hitting home.” The Conversation U.S. has spent the past couple of months digging into the history and politics of Ukraine and Russia. We’ve looked at their cultures, their religions, their military and technological capacities.…
Join us as Fourth Capital’s Brian Heinrichs sits down with four Nashville professionals as they share their journey to success along with influential people from history they have admired. Thursday, February 24th5:30 – 7:00 PM
ATLANTA, GA — On the heels of 39 states adopting new legislative maps and with redistricting in process in states such as Florida and Louisiana, a collection of Black women executive directors in the South outlined the conundrum facing voters. The Black Southern Women’s Collaborative (BSWC) noted that despite population growth, unfair redistricting processes will make it harder for voters of color to elect candidates of their choice. The group issued the following statement: “There are currently 5 million unheard voices in Florida,” said Rev. Rhonda Thomas, executive director of Faith in Florida and a BSWC member. “I am determined…
NASHVILLE, TN — Health issues affect all ethnicities, but there are only a few African-American neurologists, psychiatrists, and family medicine doctors specializing in mental health treatment. Increasing the number of African-American physicians to provide care for African-American patient populations is critical to create bonds of trust, rapport, and improve clinical outcomes. In light of these factors and the pandemic, the Adair Family Foundation is funding a $25,000 endowed scholarship at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, to address these issues – The Dr. Luther B. and Mrs. Claudia Adair Memorial Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a…