The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS) is providing extra support to thousands of families who receive monthly cash assistance through the state’s Families First program. Households qualifying as a “child-only” case in October received a one-time payment of $950 on their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards Dec. 1.The payment provides extra support to caregivers who do not receive other Families First services like child care assistance, job training, and transportation support. These “child-only” cases are those where no adult receives Families First benefits themselves and the child living in the household is being raised by relatives instead of the…
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Kris Brannon won’t let anything or anyone stand in her way. Whether she’s tackling opponents on the football field or taking on big assignments in the classroom, she knows what she wants and works hard to get it. Brannon’s love of football started when she was a child, playing helmet-to-helmet with her brothers in the backyard. After being placed in foster care and then eventually having her own child, it would be many years before she played again. At age 30, she returned to her football roots and tried out for a women’s tackle football team. With great determination, she made the…
Memphis, TN – December 1, 2021 – Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporatedâ Memphis Metro Graduate Chapters in conjunction with W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute are hosting the Stay Well Memphis Community Health Fair and Vaccine Event on Saturday, December 11, 2021, at St. Paul Baptist Church located at 2124 E. Holmes Road Memphis, TN 38116 This free, public event will be from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. The Stay Well Memphis Community Health Fair will feature local trusted Black health care professionals in a panel discussion on the continued impact of COVID-19 and its emerging variants. A myriad of free…
By Dena Vang Shreveport, LA.–For Lashonda Diouf, a long-time member of Mount Canaan Baptist Church, the recent Stay Well Harry Blake Empowerment Health Fair & Vaccination Event held a special place in her heart. “This event is important for a lot of reasons, but most importantly because of Dr. Harry Blake, who was a long-time pastor at Mount Canaan,” she said. “I’ve been a member of Mount Canaan since I was nine and I’m 53 now. Dr. Blake stood for so much. We affectionately called him ‘Daddy.’ And one thing he was big on is community involvement and health awareness.…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On December 1, 2021, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, an international women’s service organization, and the Zeta National Educational Foundation, Inc. (ZNEF) announced that Janae Smith-Williams was awarded $125,000 as the recipient of its Triumphant Founder Pearl Anna Neal Centennial Scholarship. Applications for ZNEF 2022 scholarships for high school seniors, college and graduate students will open tomorrow, Dec. 2, 2021 at https://z-nefscholarships.smapply.org. Janae Smith-Williams was awarded $125,000 as the recipient of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.’s Triumphant Founder Pearl Anna Neal Centennial Scholarship. The student athlete was chosen from more than 5000 graduating seniors across the U.S. and now…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Ladies of the Women’s Missionary Society (WMS) of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 13th Episcopal District recently help Sis. Gladys H. Brock, TN Conference WMS President, celebrate her birthday with a parade. Ladies traveled from as far away as Columbia and Murfreesboro to join the parade. WMS members also sent birthday wishes ensure President’s Brocks day was special. Itz a Celebration Yard Signs, Tammye Robinson and the ladies of Area Five decorated President Brock’s yard for the event. Brock said, “The outpour made my day so special!” See photo gallery below.
By Lawrence Hurley JACKSON, MS — As a car drove into the parking lot of Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic, the only abortion provider in the state of Mississippi, anti-abortion activist Beverly Anderson leaned in to speak to the woman in the passenger’s seat. Two escorts wearing rainbow-colored vests blared rock music to drown out Anderson and other protesters as patients entered the fenced lot.”Ma’am, you are already a mother. Don’t let them kill your baby,” Anderson, 61, told the woman. The escorts turned up the volume on the Guns N’ Roses song “Nightrain” as the woman was led into…
BOYDTON, VA — White Farmers are suing for Reverse Discrimination to prevent $5Billion in Emergency Relief for Black, Native American and other Farmers of Color. Civil rights leader John Boyd and KJ Skippa Mak Marley collaborated with Kara Brewer Boyd, Association of American Indian Farmers, to release a song “The Land” to highlight historical and ongoing broken promises, broken treaties, racial discrimination and land loss suffered by Native Americans and Black Farmers in the US. John Boyd, Jr., founder and president, National Black Farmers Association, 4th generation Black farmer in Mecklenburg County, Virginia sued the US Dept of Agriculture (USDA)…
By Erskine W. Lytle, III NASHVILLE, TN — Founded in 1863 by Bishop Daniel Payne, St. John AME Church, Nashville is the Mother Church of African Methodism in Tennessee. The church currently celebrates having two General Officers serving and one retired General Officer, who was elected and served while an active member of St. John. A fourth layperson, the late Eustace Alexander Selby (1887-1986), served as Secretary-Treasurer of the AME Church Sunday School Union from 1936-1964. Dr. Jayme Coleman Williams, Ph.D., was the first woman elected a General Officer in the denomination’s history in 1984, serving as editor of the…
By Phillippe Benoit and David R. Hill Recently there’s been a lot of attention focused on the inequities in our taxation system that allow some of America’s wealthiest to pay very little in taxes. Energy costs are another area that can raise similar concerns because poor households sometimes pay more for energy — certainly as a percentage of their income but also even on a per-unit basis — than higher-income consumers. The Biden administration can take a small but important step to address this problem by establishing a task force to identify where this happens and what can be done…