Mrs. Mildred Elaine Nash Primm was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 21, 1919. She was the only daughter born to Wiss, Sr. and Annie C. Nash. Mrs. Primm was baptized in infancy in Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was educated in the public schools of New Orleans. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Childhood Education from Columbia University and a B.A. in Education from Xavier University; she graduated from the YMCA School of Business. An active member of Union Bethel, she sang in Choir #3 and also served as a Sunday School teacher. She last held…
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most attend churches that are predominantly Black, yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. There is broad respect for Black churches’ historical role in seeking racial equality, coupled with a widespread perception they have lost influence in recent decades. Those are among the key findings in a comprehensive report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 8,660 Black adults across the United States about their religious experiences. It is Pew’s first large-scale survey on the topic. Among Black…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ The National Civil Rights Museum is scheduled to reopen next month after it was closed late last year during a surge in coronavirus cases in Memphis, Tennessee. The museum said it is scheduled to reopen March 1. Restrictions imposed by local health officials after a rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths led to the museum’s closure in December. Based in Memphis, the museum chronicles the U.S. civil rights movement. It is located at the site of the former Lorraine Motel, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on April 4, 1968. The civil…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was deported from the United States and arrived Saturday in his native Germany where he was being held by police for questioning, authorities said. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said in a statement that Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was sent back to Germany for serving as a guard of a Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp in 1945. The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice. German authorities confirmed Berger arrived Saturday at Frankfurt and was handed over to Hesse state investigators for questioning, the…
“KANSAS CITY CHEEKS” Kansas City, lose the racist team name already. Just like your vaunted offense lost its ability to score points during Super Bowl LV, losing to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an embarrassing blowout. Tom Brady is now officially the greatest football player of all time, thanks to you, K.C. – good going! And the “Chiefs” moniker is last century stuff, not to mention bigoted. As for K.C.’s home field Arrowhead Stadium – please! Chucklehead Stadium would be a much more appropriate name, considering their largely low-IQ fan base whose racist outbursts during games are…
NEW YORK — FINTECH.TV, the leading media technology platform for Digital and Impact Investment thought leadership content with a reach of 850M households globally through their online and broadcasting partners, today announced the launch of its new show, Faces of Race with Roy Wood Jr. The 15-episode series, which addresses the ongoing conversation about race in corporate America, will roll out on FINTECH.TV with episodes airing in February during Black History Month, starting with the premiere on Wednesday, February 17. In one-on-one interviews, Faces of Race seeks to uncover how racism has impacted access to corporate jobs for the Black community…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Daniel Brown was the first African American mayor of Knoxville. He served as acting mayor from January 2011 to December 2011. He also served on the city council from December 2009 to December 2017, representing the city’s 6th district. Please make a donation to support the Black press and journalism produced by The TN Tribune by visiting https://tntribune.org/donate/
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Robert Churchill in 1950 became the first African American journalist on the Nashville Banner. He graduated from Fisk University in 1949 and also was the first African American journalist hired in the South. He was nicknamed the “Jackie Robinson of Journalism.” Please make a donation to support the Black press and journalism produced by The TN Tribune by visiting https://tntribune.org/donate/
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Les Dames d’Escoffier (LDEI) Nashville announces “Sustain & Flourish in Adversity,” a year-long educational workshop series by and for women in food, fine beverage, hospitality and farming. The free webinar series – made possible through a grant from The Women’s Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee – will include five one-hour topical discussions featuring industry experts and LDEI Nashville members representing all facets of the hospitality industry. “As an organization of women leaders and innovators in food, fine beverage, hospitality and farming, LDEI and its members have witnessed and experienced COVID-19’s extreme and…
(WASHINGTON, D.C.)– Jacqueline Lewis, philanthropist and founder of WISH (Washington Intern Student Housing) announces the inauguration of a National Center for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in downtown Washington, D.C. WISH was established to house interns in the nation’s capital with the mission of diversity and inclusion and over 25 years is the leading student housing program on Capitol Hill. “Mackenzie Scott’s recent gifts to HBCU were a strong vote of confidence in their mission,” Lewis said, “and I see internships changing lives and want to keep it going.” Lewis, longtime advocate for experiential learning, has established a foundation to…