Cushion Employer Services Corporation (Cushion) announces twenty-five years of assisting clients attract, inspire, and retain the right talent. After serving twenty-one years in the Air Force and a couple of years working in the corporate world Cushion’s Founder and CEO Bill Martin started the company. In May of 1996 Cushion opened its Nashville office as an HR consulting company focused primarily on helping businesses in Middle Tennessee with employee development and compliance. Cushion’s commitment was to provide small businesses with the same value-added and exceptional human resources service that large corporations received. In 2002, Cushion acquired an employee benefits…
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NASHVILLE, TN — After a mass shooting at Kroger supermarket in Collierville that employs union members, Tennessee AFL-CIO President Billy Dycus issued the following statement. “We are horrified by the images of yet another mass shooting in America. These scenes of violence and terror are even harder to process, because they took place in our own state at a Kroger supermarket near Memphis where some our United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) brothers and sisters work. While we still don’t know all of the details, we know that one thing is for certain: no one should fear for their lives or face…
NASHVILLE, TN — On the Road to 100, American Baptist College celebrates its 97th anniversary on the Road to 100 in 2024. The anniversary event will be Thursday, October 7, at 6 p.m. on the lawn of Griggs Hall. This year’s event focuses on historic Griggs Hall, the first building on the 54-acre campus. It is also the building that Civil Rights activists of the Non-Violent Movement used for further training during the 1960s, after they had left training at First Baptist, Capitol Hill, Clark Memorial and Gordon Memorial churches taught by the Rev. James Lawson and other leaders. The…
Dr. Randall Rickard and Dr. Susan Andrews, partners in life and profession, started their own family practice, Family Practice Partners, in 1981 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. They have been affiliated with Ascension Saint Thomas and the Rutherford community for 40 years. Gordon Ferguson, Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford president and CEO, stopped by their practice earlier this month to personally thank Dr. Rickard and Dr. Andrews for their contributions to the community. He was joined by other leaders from Ascension Saint Thomas. Dr. Rickard and Dr. Andrews met in undergraduate school at Duke University, where they both were juniors at the time.…
NASHVILLE, TN — TriStar Centennial Medical Center is pleased to welcome Laura Godel as the hospital’s new Vice President of Oncology Services, and Tyler Rhoden as its new Vice President of Orthopedics, Neurosciences, and Spine. “We are fortunate to have these two new Vice Presidents join our leadership team,” said Scott Cihak, TriStar Centennial Medical Center President and CEO. “Their extensive experience in their respective fields will be of tremendous benefit to our hospital and will complement our continued focus on providing the highest quality of care to our community.” Godel has worked in oncology for the past 10 years,…
MURFREESBORO, TN — On Saturday, October 2 at 12 noon people across Rutherford and surrounding counties will take to the streets to rally and march to demand an end to the dangerous, escalating attacks on reproductive rights and freedoms in this country. The action in Murfreesboro is organized by Women’s March Tennessee, Rutherford County Democrats, Elect Black Women PAC, Tennessee Equality Project, Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, AAUW – Murfreesboro, and other community groups as part of the Nationwide Day of Action for Abortion Rights which will feature more than 600+ events in all fifty states and D.C., nine of…
NASHVILLE, TN ( TN Tribune)– Celebrated Chef Charlotte Miller and business partner Jason Luntz today announced the launch of their new culinary venture, ‘Yay Yay’s on Jefferson’, marking the ongoing rebirth and revitalization of one of Nashville’s most storied commercial districts and cultural centers – Jefferson Street. “It is very important to me as a native Nashvillian and Black woman from the South, that as we continue to see so many changes in North Nashville, we do not forget what Jefferson Street has meant to this neighborhood and the Black community. It was a safe place that allowed our community…
The historian and social critic Ibram X. Kendi is used to getting hate mail. And sometimes the disdain for him and his work takes the form of a phone call. So when he does not recognize the number he does not often answer. Such was the case on a recent day when Dr. Kendi, who wrote the best-selling book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” ignored a call from Chicago. It would take a text-message exchange with the caller and a little online sleuthing, but he eventually discovered that the person calling was from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He was intrigued:…
TN Tribune–Louis Mills was the son of Michael and Eliza (Allen) Mills. He was born and raised in Western North Carolina and spent years living and working in Henderson and Buncombe Counties. During Joe’s working years, he worked for a number of companies including Pilgrim’s Funeral Home, CP Clare and Westinghouse/Eaton. He was a devoted member of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church where over the years he served as Chairman of the Deacon Ministry, Sunday School Superintendent, van driver, and landscaper when he was healthy. For 57 years, Joe was married to the love of his life, Hattie Adell Mills.…
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill to permanently end the sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder, a policy that has led to the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans. In a bipartisan vote of 361-66, the House approved the EQUAL Act, short for Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law. The bill will now head to the Senate, where criminal justice advocates believe it has a chance of passing. The Justice Department also previously endorsed the bill. The disparities between crack and powder cocaine date back to war-on-drugs policies in the…