NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville-based financial services company Advance Financial through its charitable arm the Advance Financial Foundation, has donated a 24-passenger transport bus to Backfield in Motion, a local non-profit. “We are so excited to be working with this wonderful organization, building up the young people of our community,” said Tina Hodges, owner of Advance Financial. She added that “through The Advance Financial Foundation, we are able to assist local organizations who are working to make a difference.” Backfield in Motion is an organization that focuses on education through mastery of literacy and numeracy skills for at-risk youth that leads…
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NASHVILLE, TN — Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. member Mai Olive Prather Shumake Lusk was presented with a plaque recognizing her milestone achievement of 75 years of membership in the sisterhood. Mrs. Lusk was initiated into the sorority at Alpha Theta Chapter at Lincoln University in Missouri in 1946, where she earned her bachelor’s degree. While a student there, she participated in a vocal competition with another member of Delta Sigma Theta, lirico spinto soprano Leontyne Price, who was then a student at Wilberforce College. Soror Lusk held a long and distinguished career as a classical (mezzo soprano) singer and…
NASHVILLE, TN — Marcus Floyd officially qualified to be on the ballot for the May 2022 election recently! In reflecting on the impact of the moment, Marcus Floyd shared with the campaign team that he only wished he could go back in time and tell his childhood self — the little boy growing up in the Mississippi Delta who did not know whether he would have enough food to eat at night or clean clothes to wear to school in the morning — that someday he would be an official candidate for judge. With this huge milestone, we wanted to…
NASHVILLE, TN — The nation’s oldest continuously operating African American owned and operated bank, Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, announces it has promoted two executives to Senior Vice President: Joan Fleming-Ridley, Vice President, Residential Lending and Community Development and Clint Story, Vice President, Business Relations. Fleming-Ridley and Story are members of the executive leadership team and veterans at the bank having served a combined nearly 40 years at the institution. “As a mission driven bank, we rely on the creativity of exemplary leaders like Joan and Clint who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to serve our residential and commercial customers,”…
By Victor Sutton, Ph.D., MPPA OPHHE, Director and Principal Investigator Accustomed to being last, Mississippi is rewriting its health narrative and has emerged as a national leader in health equity. Recently, Mississippi was recognized as 1 of only 10 states where Black residents have a higher vaccination rate than white residents. Black Mississippians represent 38% of the state’s population, yet comprise 39% of Mississippi’s fully vaccinated population. In a recent Mississippi State Department of Health / Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Research Study, 35% of the study’s nearly 12,000 respondents were Black. Nearly 4% of the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn will share legislation for the new student-based funding formula, known as the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement formula (TISA), on Thursday, February 24. Tennesseans will have access to a livestream presentation that breaks down key aspects of the legislation and funding proposal. Details about the presentation will be announced next week. “After an extensive process with input from thousands of Tennesseans, we are on the cusp of achieving an updated approach to public education that prioritizes students and invests in the future of Tennessee,” said Gov.…
Richardson Funeral Home, Inc. Amite donated the first collection of funeral programs to Nurturing Our Roots a year ago for preservation. An additional 634 funeral programs was added to the collection on February 8, 2022. A total of over 1,200 programs was donated in total to the center. Proprietors Dr. Valarie Richardson, Earl Scott Richardson, Jr, and Alex Richardson, CEO help delivery the boxes of records to the center in honor of Black History Month. Along with the funeral programs, a volume of 14 hardback books was donated to the center. The volume range from 1970-2008. The following information can…
Washington, DC — The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), led by Dr. Thelma Thomas Daley, together with several NCNW Affiliates, support the ongoing U.S. Department of Justice investigation into bomb threats aimed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). It is well documented that violent domestic extremism poses a high degree of risk to public safety, the rule of law and to democracy itself. NCNW also urges all Americans to reject violence and threats of violence as methods of expressing political or social discontent or opposition. “We celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Day barely a month ago. He forcefully…
The Transformative Justice Coalition and the Voting Rights Alliance, in honor of Black History Month, are reviving the daily special series devoted to sharing the legacies and stories of the sheroes, heroes, and events in the fight for Black suffrage. This series was created in 2017 and will add 9 NEW articles this year. In addition to these daily newsletters all February long, this series also incorporates daily social media posts; an interactive calendar; and, website blog posts to spread the word broadly. Reporting by: Caitlyn Cobb. Note from the author: This article is comprised of quotes from many different…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Nashville Davidson County Register of Deeds Karen Johnson recently graduated from the Tennessee Certified Public Manager (CPM) program after the year-long course. CPM is a program of the Naifeh Center for Effective Leadership, an agency of the UT Institute for Public Service. Thirty-eight participants from local, state, and federal government positions graduated as members of the program’s 2021 class. The Tennessee CPM program had cohorts in Knoxville, Nashville and Jackson. The ceremony included an address from Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett. Participants in the yearlong program learn about current trends in public management by hearing from…