Music City Baseball is excited to begin Black History Month, this month-long period of celebration and remembrance, as we continue to showcase the heritage of the Nashville Stars and pursue our goal to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville. In doing so, the Nashville Stars will become the first MLB team named after a Negro Leagues franchise. Baseball’s history in Nashville is tied to the Black community not only through the Stars namesake, but also because Sulphur Dell, the Stars home ballpark, was located just off of Jefferson Street, the center of the city’s African-American business and cultural districts. Jefferson…
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Ms. Eleanor Franklin Bright entered eternal peace and rest on January 20, 2022 while at home with family. Eleanor was preceded in death by her parents Alexander and Bessie Smith Bright; also, siblings Alexander, Jr., Robert Earl, Dorothy, Egbert (“Short Pap”), and Sadie. Eleanor was born in Brentwood, TN and educated in the Williamson County public school system where she graduated as valedictorian of her high school class. She received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees in the field of education from Tennessee A & I (now Tennessee State University), with further study at Peabody college of…
MURFREESBORO, TN — Several highly accomplished health care professionals and entrepreneurs are slated to lend their expertise to MTSU’s Black History Month celebration. The Health and Wellness Expo, in accordance with the Black History Month theme of “Black Love: Health, Wellness, Relationships,” is scheduled for 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, in the Student Union atrium on campus. The event is free and open to the public. “The expo will host a variety of businesses from restaurants, nutrition and fitness coaches, as well as a 360-camera experience,” said Brelinda Johnson, manager of the MTSU Scholars Academy and member of…
National–In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team, the prosecutor told The Washington Post. Antrim County prosecutor James Rossiter said in an interview that Giuliani and several colleagues made the request during a telephone call after the county initially misreported its election results. The inaccurate tallies meant that Joe Biden appeared to have beaten Trump by 3,000 votes in a Republican stronghold, an error that soon placed Antrim at the center…
Washington, DC — (TN Tribune) — The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is pleased to announce that Dr. Thelma Thomas Daley has been named 8th National President and Chair of the organization. Continuing to live a life of service, Dr. Daley is stepping up from the Vice President position. The Honorable Alexis Herman, Senior Advisor to the NCNW Executive Committee, said “Dr. Daley is well-known, much beloved and proven leader of national and international organizations. Dr. Daley served as a National Vice President of NCNW and understands well the mission, the goal, and the urgency of the work we…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – Secretary of State Tre Hargett is warning Tennessee business owners about a new scam targeting businesses with a deceptive mailer from a company called Business Document Center incorrectly implying that businesses need a Certificate of Good Standing. “Unfortunately, our Division of Business and Charitable Organizations and I were recently made aware of yet another company sending out misleading mailers trying to take advantage of Tennessee business owners,” said Secretary Hargett. “These mailers imply that businesses must have a Certificate of Good Standing to operate in Tennessee. A Certificate of Good Standing is not even something that…
Nashville, TN — State Treasurer David H. Lillard, Jr. announced the promotions of two Tennessee Treasury executives who will fill new leadership roles. Kevin Bradley, CPA, CFA, who has served as Deputy Chief Operating Officer, has been promoted to First Deputy Treasurer. Roy West, who has served the Treasurer as Director of Legislative and Agency Affairs, will now serve as Chief of Staff. Kevin Bradley began his Treasury career in January 2011 as an Accountant and has been promoted to other key positions, including Deputy Director of Accounting and Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Interim Director of Information Systems. He…
When Joshua Cable attended a ceremony at Turning Point Fellowship Ministries International Church in Canton on Feb. 1, 2020, honoring leaders who were instrumental in building up their surrounding communities, he knew he was among those who would be receiving honors. What he did not expect when he stood before the gathered congregation that evening was to receive a signed proclamation from Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba establishing Joshua A. Cable Day in his honor. “That announcement came as a mouth-dropping shock for me,” Cable says. “I had dreamed of what it would be like to have my own day…
A federal judge has declared Hinds County in contempt of court, setting the path for receivership proceedings after the county, in a Jan. 21, 2022, motion, sought to end the consent decree at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond. The decree has been in place since 2016 due to poor safety conditions, broken locks, unlawful detainment and numerous other problems at the jail. In the Friday, Feb. 4 order, U.S. Southern Mississippi District Court Judge Carlton Reeves said that although the motion to terminate the consent decree suggested that the county no longer violated the incarcerated citizens’ constitutional rights, the evidence does not support that claim. “The motion…
Memphis, TN (TN Tribune)–Sally Badoud has been named the vice chancellor for communications and marketing at UTHSC. She is shown here at the UT Board of Trustees meeting that was held in Memphis in June. Sally Badoud, MBA, has been named vice chancellor for the Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Badoud has served as assistant vice chancellor for communications and marketing since joining UTHSC in 2016. A creative and strategic leader, she has more than 20 years of experience in branding, communications, design, management, organizational change, and marketing for organizations in higher…