Victims of the tragic Bronx fire were laid to rest in an emotional ceremony Sunday — with thousands of mourners filing past 15 caskets, including some no bigger than a carry-on suitcase. The heart-wrenching scene played out at the Islamic Cultural Center on East 166th Street, about two miles from the high-rise that filled quickly filled with smoke one week ago, killing nine adults and eight children ranging in age from 2 to 50. “One week they were with us … now they’re gone,” said Imam Musa Kabba of the Masjid-Ur-Rahmah mosque. Members of the tight-knit Gambian community that bore the brunt of…
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Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)— WPLN’s News Director Emily Siner has been named as a recipient of the Nashville Business Journal’s 2022 class of 40 Under 40 Award. The Nashville Business Journal recognizes leaders making an impact on the business community and showing the way for others, all before their 40th birthdays. The winners will be featured in a special print publication and recognized at an event hosted by the NBJ. As news director, Siner has overseen the rapid growth of an ambitious local newsroom. In the past year alone, WPLN News hired 14 journalists and now is a newsroom of…
By Val Demings I grew up poor in the segregated South, the daughter of a maid and a janitor. If you had told me back then, as a young Black girl, that I would become the first in my family to graduate college, the first woman to lead the Orlando Police Department, a congresswoman and a candidate for the U.S. Senate, well – I just don’t know if I would have believed you. What I did believe then – and what I carry deep in my soul to this day – is the lesson of my hardworking parents to “never…
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint By the time most of us read this, the United States Senate would have taken a vote on the Voting Rights Legislation that has been delayed for so long. While passage of the Voting Rights Act and the John Lewis Act would go a long way in nullifying the many Voter Suppression laws enacted during the past year in more than 28 states, we must all realize that this battle for the right to vote now rests with each and everyone of us. We must now understand that…
SAN FRANCISCO – The USDF Consortium™ (the Consortium), an association of FDIC-insured financial institutions, launched today with a mission to build a network of banks to further the adoption and interoperability of a bank-minted stablecoin (USDF™), which will facilitate the compliant transfer of value on the blockchain, removing friction in the financial system and unlocking the financial opportunities that blockchain and digital transactions can provide to a greater network of users. The Consortium’s founding bank members include New York Community Bank (NYCB), NBH Bank, FirstBank (NYSE:FBK), Sterling National Bank, and Synovus Bank. Figure Technologies, Inc. and JAM FINTOP are also…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–The Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP (also referred to as the Tennessee NAACP) is opposed to the redistricting plans approved by the House Select Committee on Redistricting. The Select Committee’s plans harm Black voters and communities. The House redistricting plan for the 99 districts approved on December 17 intentionally targets and seeks to remove Black incumbent lawmakers in Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville. The adopted plan for congressional districts approved on January 12 is the most extreme of the proposals. It removes the eastern part of Shelby County from the 9th congressional district and puts this area in…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – Bordeaux and North Nashville residents have chosen eight city projects they want to fund as part of Mayor John Cooper’s participatory budgeting initiative – a first for Nashville. Now, a volunteer-led participatory budgeting steering committee will work with Mayor John Cooper and Metro Council to move these investments forward: A new pavilion – with a pathway, fencing and picnic tables – plus an upgraded playground with new equipment and rubber surfacing at Bordeaux Gardens Park, 1490 Snell BoulevardAn air conditioning system for the gym at the Looby Community Center, 2301 Rosa Parks BoulevardSix sets of speed bumps…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune) Odessa Kelly, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 5th Congressional District sent a message to her supporters this week about the House GOP Rep. Jeremy Faison’s assault of a referee during a high school basketball game. Kelly’s message to supporters is below: Before I get into the pantsing nonsense, hear me out — right now, Middle Tennessee is in the fight of its life against new racist, anti-democratic gerrymandering. Last week, at his son’s high school basketball game, Tennessee State Rep. Jeremy Faison got so angry at a referee that he tried to fight —…
Charles McGee, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew 409 fighter combat missions in three wars, has died at the age of 102. In tweets on Sunday, Vice President Harris and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called McGee an American hero. “Today, we lost an American hero, Brigadier General Charles McGee,” Harris wrote in a tweet. “A member of the Tuskegee Airmen, he completed over 400 missions during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. I had the honor of calling him last month on his 102nd birthday to thank him for his service to our nation.” McGee was among the 900 men that…
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