The SHIBA Report can be downloaded HERE WASHINGTON, DC – The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) recently released its 2021 State of Housing in Black America (SHIBA) Report. The comprehensive study finds that the gap in homeownership between Black and White families is wider today than in the decades when housing discrimination was legal. According to the U.S. Census, as of the second quarter of 2021, the Black homeownership rate was 44.6% compared to 74.2% for Whites, a gap of 29.6%. Incredibly, in 1960, before the Civil Rights movement and Fair Housing laws, there was a 27-point gap…
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The MNPD’s Training Academy has just been reaccredited with excellence, thehighest level of recognition, by the Commission on Accreditation for Law EnforcementAgencies (CALEA). In bestowing reaccreditation for the next four years, the Commission recognized thecreation of a new mentoring program that pairs police officer trainees with veteran officersthroughout the academy process, the emphasis placed on de-escalation training, careerdevelopment initiatives, and medical training for trauma emergencies in the field. The MNPD Academy has been continuously accredited since 2011.
Derrick Johnson, CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released the following statement: The verdict in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery is long overdue. Ahmaud Arbery’s death was unnecessary and fueled by racist ideologies deeply engrained into the fabric of this nation. Generations of Black people have seen this time and time again, with the murder of Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, and many others. The actions and events perpetrated by the McMichaels and William Bryan leading up to Ahmaud’s death reflect a growing and deepening rift in America that will be its undoing…
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint As so many of us in this country pause to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, it seems like a good time to remind all of us that every day should be a day for giving thanks. We should consider how blessed we are as a nation and as a people. While so many of us struggle with such issues as racism, poverty, sickness, and homes and homelessness, we are still blessed. This is important, in spite of whatever problems we might be facing individually or as a society. We waste…
The family of Joe Shelton Jr. has renewed the $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for his death after a concrete chunk went through his windshield as he was driving on I-24 east at the Shelby Avenue bridge on the morning of November 20, 2018. While it is possible that the concrete chunk was thrown from the bridge, the police department has not, to this point, identified any witnesses. Anyone with information about Joe Shelton’s death is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463. Crime Stoppers is also offering an additional reward…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — The general public and MTSU community are invited to the upcoming 21st Graduating Veterans Stole Ceremony. The event, which is coordinated by the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center, will be held starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, in the second-floor atrium of the Miller Education Center, 503 Bell St., in Murfreesboro. To view a campus map, which includes a special inset for the Miller Education Center near North Highland Avenue, go here. Student veterans will receive a special red stole to be worn during 9 a.m., and 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday,…
CHATTANOOGA, TN- (TN Tribune)- The Chattanooga Human Rights Day celebration will be held virtually on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST. This year’s theme is One Chattanooga: Moving our City Forward. The event commemorates the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. City of Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly will be the guest speaker for the celebration. Mayor Kelly is a lifelong resident of Chattanooga. He is a civic leader and has served on several boards in Chattanooga. He has founded, owned, and operated several businesses. Chattanooga Human Rights…
New York–Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens. Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall, where it’s resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves. About a dozen workers with Marshall Fine Arts spent several hours carefully removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the City Council chambers and surrounding it with sections of foam and wooden boards. They then lowered the massive structure down the stairs leading to the…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice. The convictions for Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan came after jurors deliberated for about 10 hours. The men face minimum sentences of life in prison. It is up to the judge to decide whether that comes with or without the possibility of parole. Travis McMichael stood for the verdict, his lawyer’s arm around his shoulder. At one point, McMichael lowered…
By Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC), House Majority Whip Last year, Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats promised voters that if given the chance we would do the things necessary to combat COVID-19, rebuild America’s families and their communities, and restore faith in the promise of America. I often say that we can be no more or less than what our experiences allow us to be. When I see or hear the word “faith,” my experiences of growing up in a parsonage cause me to reflect upon one of my favorite passages of scripture, Hebrew 11:1, “Faith is the substance of…