NASHVILLE, TN — HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, and the HCA Healthcare Foundation today honored U.S. military veterans, those currently serving and their families by donating a total of $150,000 to local veteran support organizations. The donations were in honor of the late HCA Healthcare employee Avery King, an Air Force veteran who was instrumental in the creation of the Military Affairs Program, the Company’s veteran and military spouse employment program. HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation contributed to the following organizations during a Veteran’s Day event, “BRAVE Conversations: Honoring Our Veterans”…
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By Paula Anderson An internship is an opportunity to apply classroom learning and theory with practical application. Over the last three years, Writing by Design Media and now Writing by Design Media, Inc.,a public benefit organization, has worked with student interns to write news content, press releases and create social media and digital content. Writing by Design Media Inc. launched a multimedia journalism internship program for students at two-year and four-year colleges and universities. We are offering paid internships in 2022 for students who want to learn about magazine production, photography and videography. Students will have an opportunity to work on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFNXzMDK4M NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country singer/songwriter Jason Byrd touches hearts with the release of his music video for his latest single, “Better Life,” featuring George Jones. The beautifully crafted video showcases a love story from beginning here on Earth to ending with the reassurance of peace in Heaven, taking the meaning of the lyrics to a whole new level of emotion. Byrd, strapped with an acoustic guitar, highlights the simple pleasures of life that have the power to change it in the most extraordinary ways. Viewers are able to feel the sentiment of the tune through the video as well…
New York, NY Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series, the first Academy qualifying festival devoted to women filmmakers, is offering creators an opportunity to produce the pilot for a web series or a short film! “The winner will receive $5,000 to produce the first episode of a web series, which can be used as a calling card to attract a producer and other film opportunities. You will be guided on your journey in learning the art of creating a high quality micro budget film. Story is Queen.” Says Carolyn Butts, founder of Reel Sisters. DEADLINE: January…
NEW YORK – United Methodist Women, the largest denominational organization for women, today lamented the not guilty verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was accused of murdering two people and injuring a third during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The organization’s General Secretary and CEO Harriett Jane Olson issued the following statement: “United Methodist Women is deeply troubled by the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in the fatal shooting trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the dangerous nod to vigilantism that it portends. The exoneration of a then 17-year-old who illegally purchased a semiautomatic weapon because it was “cool” and carried it across state…
First reported in The Drum Newspaper At just six years old, four girls underwent psychological and academic evaluation in order to enroll in school. They were part of a pool of 137 children who applied to attend all-white elementary schools in New Orleans.Days later, wearing white dresses with matching hair ribbons and laced socks, they would face mobs of angry, white parents who gathered to stop them from integrating McDonogh 19 and William Frantz elementary schools in the Lower Ninth Ward. The girls were Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost, who went to the all-white McDonogh 19, and Ruby Bridges who attended William…
By PAIGE PFLEGER Henry L. Jones is hunched over, unfurling a 9-foot canvas on the floor. “I’m going to hang it like a banner,” he says, unrolling it. “I’ll show you.” The painting will hang on the back wall of the gallery inside the Parthenon, opposite an equally massive piece by painter Omari Booker. Where Booker thrives in realism, Jones leans into more abstract art. “And this is another one of my pieces here,” Jones says, walking across the room. “It’s dedicated to Monroe Street.” He stops in front of a red, yellow and purple painting and remembers a summer in…
MONTGOMERY, AL – The special session on redistricting convened October 28 and finished November 3. New voting districts for U.S. Congress, state senate, assembly, and the Alabama Board of Education were approved and sent to Governor Kay Ivey for her signature. A political version of speed dating, the special session was marked by some sharp debate but it didn’t change the outcome any. The Republican majority voted for gerrymandered maps that favor them. The last time maps were drawn after the 2010 Census, Republicans elected six members to Congress while Democrats only elected one. “During the last redistricting cycle, a federal…
On November 29, demolition will begin for the North Nashville Transit Center. It should have little to no impact on businesses, residents, motorists, and transit customers.
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune) – The TriState Minority Supplier Development Council (TSMSDC) held its first-ever virtual Impact Awards Gala on Thursday, August 26, 2021. The event opened with welcome remarks by Cheri Henderson, president & CEO, who reminded viewers that the special occasion was a celebration of the remarkable achievements of corporate members and certified minority businesses across the council’s 3-state region, which includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. The Council serves as the connecting link to profitable and successful business relationships among its stakeholders, locally, regionally and nationally. The Council presented its “Corporation of the Year Award” to Toyota.…