CHATTANOOGA, TN — Chattanooga Gas, Southern Company Gas, and its parent, Southern Company, are donating $100,000 to Tennessee State University to support remote learning initiatives. The gift is part of the Southern Company Foundation’s and its subsidiaries’ $50 million Historically Black College and Universities Initiative, a multiyear funding strategy announced in January that provides HBCU students with scholarships, internships, leadership development, and access to technology and innovation to support career readiness. “We are excited to partner with these leading institutions as we invest in the next generation of technology leaders,” said Kim Greene, chairman, president, and CEO of Southern Company…
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(TN-Tribune) ATLANTA — Clark Atlanta University President, George T. French Jr., Ph.D. has been selected to participate in the second “CONNECT LIBERIA” Africa Webinar Series entitled “Winning in Education During COVID-19.” Hosted by the University Consortium for Liberia (UCL) in collaboration with the Liberian Consulate in Georgia, the event will be held Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 11 a.m. EST. Participants in the virtual online panel discussion, which is free and open to the public, will explore Liberia’s e-learning transformation and Liberian student success stories. Additionally, guests will share their strategies and successful outcomes achieved during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ The National Civil Rights Museum in Tennessee is looking for a new leader. Terri Lee Freeman has resigned as president after serving in that role since 2014, the Memphis-based museum said Thursday. Freeman led the museum through the 50th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 2018. The museum is located on the grounds of the former Lorraine Motel, where King was killed while standing on a balcony on April 4, 1968. The museum has also been the site of peaceful protests demanding racial equality and denouncing police brutality after the…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – Nashville and Davidson County has received a 78 out of 100 score following the release of the 2020 Human Rights Campaign Municipal Equality Index. The 2020 MEI is a nationwide evaluation of 506 cities on how inclusive cities’ laws, policies, and services are of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. Nashville received a score of 63 in 2018 and a score of 70 in 2019. This year, the MEI rated cities based on 49 criteria within five categories including non-discrimination laws, the municipality as an employer, municipal services, law enforcement and the city leadership’s public position…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)-President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet is quickly taking shape, but there is growing dissent from Black lawmakers and activists surrounding his picks, as only two Black Americans have been chosen so far. At the moment, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, tapped to be the country’s next ambassador to the United Nations, and Cecilia Rouse, Biden’s pick to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, are the only Black members of the burgeoning Cabinet. Advocates have made it clear that they want to see the administration put Democrats’ staunchest voting bloc at the center right from Day One. In his first speech as president-elect,…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune) A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors from deportation, scoring a key win for immigrant advocacy groups. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, a Clinton appointee, restores the Obama-era program and also mandates that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) post a public notice by Monday saying it is accepting new applicants. It would mark the first time since 2017 that the government has admitted new immigrants into the program. Approved applicants will…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN TRIBUNE) – December 3, 2020– A Mississippi man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, to conspiracy to pay and receive healthcare kickbacks, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Vernon Sanders, 54 of Meridian, Mississippi, and owner of FastScripts, LLC, was charged in August with conspiring with unnamed co-conspirators to solicit and receive kickbacks and defraud the Medicare Program of $3,381,434. Sanders was the owner of a marketing company and a patient broker who referred Medicare beneficiaries to laboratories in exchange for kickbacks and bribes. Sanders paid marketers to recruit Medicare patients to…
NASHVILLE, TN – Today, the Tennessee Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and five Tennessee residents – who tried to restore their right to vote in November’s General Election but were denied – filed a lawsuit challenging the systemic failure of Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process. The parties are represented by Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Free Hearts Tennessee, Baker Donelson, and Equal Justice Under Law. “Our most fundamental right as Americans is the right to vote, but for far too many people, that right is being denied because of a process that is freezing…
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This is good news for the Black Press of America in 2021,” declared Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO of the NNPA. “The incoming Biden-Harris Administration has gone on the public record to keep their commitments to ensure equitable federal advertising dollars to be spent over the next four years with Black-owned newspapers, and other minority-owned media companies across the nation.” President-Elect Joe Biden’s administration plans to support legislation offered by District of Columbia Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton that would ensure federal agencies advertise with minority-owned businesses, including the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Tennessee officials