Memphis, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – Cynthia Russell, PhD, RN, has been named vice chancellor for Academic, Faculty and Student Affairs (AFSA) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Russell has served as the interim vice chancellor for AFSA since December 2020. With almost three decades of service to the university, Dr. Russell has also served as the associate vice chancellor for Faculty Affairs, and holds a faculty appointment as a professor in the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care in the UTHSC College of Nursing. “I am honored to be appointed as the vice chancellor of AFSA and…
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Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – First Horizon Bank, member of the First Horizon National Corp. (NYSE:FHN) family of companies, today announced Shondra Duncan as the new banking center manager for Franklin Main and Denice Demers as the new banking center manager for Concord Hills. Duncan and Demers will be responsible for business development and growth, as well as managing operations for their respective centers. “Shondra and Denice have been valuable members of the team throughout their careers with First Horizon,” said Carol Yochem, president of First Horizon Bank for the Middle Tennessee Region. “We look forward to the growth and fresh…
This is the 10th article in the Tribune’s series on affordable housing and follows up on our two previous stories about the Department of Housing and Urban Development. NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville is segregated like most American cities. For decades East and North Nashville was where African Americans lived. Some middle class African Americans moved to Bordeaux in Metro’s District 1. Senator Brenda Gilmore represented District 1 on the Metro Council from 1993-2003. “It was rural whites and Bordeaux was African American,” Gilmore said. “Joelton is still basically white. Bordeaux is changing but I think it has to do with…
INDIANAPOLIS — The Society of Professional Journalists has named 36 Market Square in Knoxville, Tennessee, an Historic Site in Journalism. The address marks the site where Adolph Ochs, founder of The New York Times, started his journalism career. SPJ’s Historic Sites program honors the people and places that have played important roles in American journalistic history. At age 11, Ochs became a carrier boy for the Knoxville Chronicle. He worked there and then at The Knoxville Tribune for six years, where he rose from office boy to apprentice to journeyman printer. He left for a newspaper job in Chattanooga at…
BY Chris Butler Nashville, TN —Former Nashville mayoral candidate Carol Swain said Thursday she suspects her new book that tackles Critical Race Theory (CRT) has attracted the notice of the credit card company American Express, which reportedly leans left. Swain said it’s possible that company officials penalized her because of Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House, which she co-authored. Amazon made the book available this month. Swain said American Express officials emailed her Wednesday. The email said she had an American Express account that “was adversely impacting my accounts.” Company officials told her they…
An Atlanta mother has reportedly filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education alleging her children’s elementary school placed Black students in separate classrooms from their peers based on race. Kila Posey has two children who attend Mary Lin Elementary School in Atlanta and claims the school “had been formulated, in part, based upon race of the students” during the 2020-21 academic year, a complaint by her attorney reads, according to CNN. Posey says the principal assigned two teachers’ classes as the “Black classes,” with around 13 Black second-grade students being assigned only to those two classes.…
By John Thomas III, Editor, The Christian Recorder When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” John 5: 6 From July 6-10, the family of the African Methodist Episcopal Church gathered in Orlando, Florida and through Zoom conferencing to conduct the business of the denomination in the best way we knew how. It seemed as if Murphy’s Law was in full effect: a global pandemic, a looming hurricane, poorly functioning sound, international connectivity issues and to top it all off a…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, killing at least 304 people and injuring at least 1,800 others as buildings tumbled into rubble. Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he was rushing aid to areas where towns were destroyed and hospitals overwhelmed with incoming patients. The epicenter of the quake was about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and widespread damage was reported in the hemisphere’s poorest nations as a tropical storm also bore down. Haiti’s civil protection agency said on Twitter that the death…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Today, Centennial Park-goers were greeted with a giant surprise at the Parthenon: the first-ever Bojangles food truck! Along with the unveiling and a tailgate-style celebration, 200 people received a free Bo’s Chicken Sandwich and gave rave reviews. After today, Bo’s fans will be able to find the food truck in high traffic areas around Music City – from downtown to business parks, neighborhoods, college campuses and more. Before its Nashville unveiling today, the food truck made a national appearance in New York’s Time Square last week to help launch the new Bo’s Chicken Sandwich. It’s the first food truck for Bojangles –…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – The Knoxville Area Urban League and Urban League of Greater Chattanooga will soon begin a joint session of NextLevel, a business development program offered through a partnership between the Tennessee Valley Authority, Interise and Tennessee Urban League Affiliates. The purpose of the seven-month program, scheduled to start August 18, is to support established small business owners who wish to create a dynamic plan to grow his or her business. “NextLevel is an impactful program that utilizes research-driven business development tools and local collaboration with industry professionals to help business owners build a strategic roadmap to…