Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–When it comes to civil rights and social justice, we have the unique ability to secure more wins than anyone else. Help make racial equity a reality. Join the NAACP at the 2021 Freedom Fund Awards Dinner and help support the nation’s oldest civil rights organization as we continue to do the work that must be done. Please support the Freedom Fund Award Dinner by making a personal commitment of purchasing a minimum of one ticket. Purchase Your Freedom Fund Dinner Ticket Corporate and Community Sponsorship Information We hope to see you there, Patricia Malone-Smith Freedom Fund…
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Stealing guns from parked vehicles has skyrocketed in Nashville in the past few years. One reason might be a 2014 Tennessee law waiving permits for keeping loaded guns in vehicles. Another is the ease of the crime for any enterprising thief: Wait until everyone is asleep, walk down residential streets, break into cars (some conveniently left unlocked) and steal valuable stuff, especially guns. So as a business model, it’s just a percentage game like door-to-door sales or telemarketing car warranties. There’s a bonus in this for gun manufacturers: The more guns stolen and presumably in the hands of bad guys,…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – Waste Management (WM), a leading provider of environmental services in Middle Tennessee, today announced a three-year, $300,000 commitment to Tennessee State University (TSU). The pledge, first unveiled by Dr. Glenda Glover, President of TSU, and Don Gentilcore, Mid-South Area Director of Disposal Operations for WM, during halftime of TSU’s homecoming football game this evening will focus on environmental sustainability research, and providing scholarships and internships for students attending TSU. “We appreciate the support from Waste Management and the opportunities this partnership will create for the University and our students,” said Dr. Glover. “Scholarships, internships and research will be the main focus of…
The Central Bank of Nigeria joined a growing list of emerging markets betting on digital money to cut transaction costs and boost participation in the formal financial system. “Nigeria has become the first country in Africa, and one of the first in the world to introduce a digital currency to her citizens,” President Muhammadu Buhari said in televised speech at the launch in Abuja, the capital. “The adoption of the central bank digital currency and its underlying technology, called blockchain, can increase Nigeria’s gross domestic product by $29 billion over the next 10 years.” The International Monetary Fund projects GDP…
By Daniel Riordan GARY — Lake Criminal Court Senior Judge Diane Ross Boswell was a respected jurist as well as a beloved mother, friend and colleague. An overflow crowd of family, friends and officials packed into Christ United Methodist Church on Saturday to honor her life before she was laid to her final rest at Ridgelawn Cemetery. Boswell died Oct. 19 at the age of 72. Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter spoke during Saturday morning’s service. Beforehand he remarked that Boswell was universally respected by prosecutors, defense attorneys and those who stood accused in her courtroom. Join Cpl. Jerry…
By R. L. Witter Raised in Northeast Denver in “a community that was filled with hard working folks from various walks of life,” Smith came by his generous spirit honestly. “My mother instilled in me the importance of giving,” he recalled. “And even though we did not have much growing up, she wrote a check every month to the United Negro College Fund.” That act would inform Robert’s life in a way that would impact hundreds of other Black families in America. Dr. William Robert Smith and Dr. Sylvia Myrna Smith were both teachers. While they weren’t financially rich, inside…
Memphis, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – Kenneth Ataga, MD, Director of the Center for Sickle Cell Disease at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), was recently awarded $3.2 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for a project that enlists artificial intelligence in the fight against sickle cell disease. Santosh Saraf, MD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a co-PI on the grant. Individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) often suffer from multiple complications that put them at increased risk of death. One of the most prevalent of…
MEMPHIS – Finalists have been selected in the search for the next chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). The finalists are scheduled to visit in Memphis on Nov. 4 and Nov. 11 to meet with representative groups of faculty, staff, students and key community leaders. They will also participate in campus public forum sessions. All public forum sessions will be held on the UTHSC campus in the General Education Building (GEB), room A104, at 1 p.m. CST and are open to the public. Finalist names and background information will be provided two days prior to each…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Fred Dettwiller passed away the morning, Oct. 22, 2021. A leader in Tennessee’s business and religious communities, and a friend to many, 89-year-old Fred Dettwiller was one of the most remarkable, many-faceted Tennesseans of his generation. A man who excelled at everything he put his hand to – and who always had his hand in several large jobs at once – Dettwiller was a thoughtful, comfortably introverted yet strong and active leader who accomplished much and touched many lives by not letting his ego get in the way of making a difference. A man who lived his life…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Amazon is investing $800,000 to endow a professor at Tennessee State University and equip computer science students with the skills they need to one day work for the company or elsewhere in the technology space. The idea originated in 2018 as a part of announcing Amazon Nashville, which is expected toultimately create 5,000 jobs in Nashville. Over the next two years, Amazon and TSU discussed the endowment in greater detail and it was mutually decided that the “Amazon Endowed Professorship Chair” would be in the university’s Computer Science Department. The funding will support the…