Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Lexus of Cool Springs will pay $60,000 to settle a 2018 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sex discrimination lawsuit. According to an EEOC news release, the dealership agreed to resolve the suit that alleged that Lexus of Cool Springs subjected a female service consultant to different treatment than her male co-workers, and then fired her because of her sex. In addition to the monetary payout, the two-year consent decree entered by U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger requires the dealership to permit female employees to use available leave in circumstances where it permits similarly situated male employees to…
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By Roxana Hegeman BELLE PLAINE, KS — President Joe Biden’s nomination of Tom Vilsack to lead the Agriculture Department received a chilly reaction from many Black farmers who contend he didn’t do enough to help them the last time he had the job. Vilsack, a former Iowa governor who served eight years as agriculture secretary under President Barack Obama, has been trying to assure minority farming groups and the senators who will vote on his confirmation that he will work to “root out generations of systemic racism” in the agency. “The reality is there are inherent, legacy barriers and practices…
By Paula F. Casey The Equality Trailblazers monument will stand outside the University of Memphis law school. Imagine being born into a country where you were denied the right to vote just because you were a woman. That was primarily the situation for American women prior to August 18, 1920, when Tennessee became the last state that could possibly ratify the 19th Amendment, which states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” The 72-year struggle for women’s enfranchisement came closer…
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By Rev. Stephen Tillett My Sophia: Soon, you were a witness a first-time event in American history, the swearing-in of Kamala Harris, the first woman to be elected Vice President of the United States. The significance of her being an African American woman, and one of Nana’s sorority sisters, might escape you. After all, Barack Obama was president when you were born. Four years later, a woman, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was the favored candidate for president. When you awoke on November 9, 2016, you learned that some things that seem certain do not always happen. When you…
NEW ORLEANS, MO — The Women’s Business Enterprise Council South (WBEC South), a regional partner organization of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), announces that it has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency to operate a MBDA Enterprising Women of Color Business Center. The grant will be used to establish cutting-edge training, access to capital assistance, networking and procurement opportunities for minority women-owned business enterprises. Procurement and small business contracting expert, Tiffany Carter, has been hired as the Director for the Enterprising Women of Color Business Center. Most recently, Tiffany…
SMYRNA, TN — Local couple Calvin Gatlin and Lovely Lancaster are proud to announce the opening of Southern Flare Cigar & Social Lounge and Sellebrity Co-Working & Business Solutions this Spring. Seeing a need for the Smyrna and the South Nashville communities to provide an outlet for professionals and entrepreneurs to both work and unwind, Calvin and Lovely developed the idea of two businesses that could provide such services. The two locations will be conveniently next to each other at 98 and 100 Lowry Street in Smyrna. “Southern Flare Cigar and Sellebrity Co-Working is not just the coming together of…
NASHVILLE, TN — The Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) has been sworn-in as president of the American Correctional Association (ACA). During a virtual ceremony on Saturday, Commissioner Tony Parker became the first TDOC Commissioner to lead the national organization in its 151-year history. The ACA is the oldest association developed specifically for practitioners in the correctional profession. “I am humbled and honored to be given an opportunity to represent correctional professionals at home and abroad who dedicate themselves to enhancing public safety,” said Parker. “The heroes of corrections are those who work in our facilities, our…
KNOXVILLE, TN — The Knoxville Museum of Art is pleased to announce the gift of three paintings by famed Knoxville Impressionist Catherine Wiley from the family of the artist’s grand-nephew, the late Edwin P. Wiley of Milwaukee. “This extraordinary gift immensely enriches the KMA’s holdings of this indispensable East Tennessee artist,” according to KMA Executive Director David Butler. “We are grateful to the Wiley family for entrusting these treasures to the artist’s hometown art museum.” After training in New York and New England, Anna Catherine Wiley (1879-1958) returned to Knoxville and soon began to energize the artistic community in a…
BRENTWOOD, TN — LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier, announced last week that Elmer Polite has been named chief financial officer of its Eastern Division of hospitals. In this role, Polite will oversee financial operations for 26 hospital campuses located in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. “We are delighted to welcome Elmer to our team,” said Jamie Carter, president of LifePoint Health’s Eastern Division. “He brings a tremendous amount of health system financial and operational management experience to our company, and we are confident that he is the right person to…