Kalpana Peddibhotla is a business immigration attorney. She is former co-chair for the Immigration Committee for the South Asian Bar Association of North America. NASHVILLE, TN – The Trump administration has made more than 400 changes to immigration policy, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). The nonpartisan NGO has tracked immigration trends in the U.S. and worldwide since 2001. MPI began cataloguing changes the administration has made in January 2017 and decided to publish the list as a public resource. “It helps you see some of the trends with this administration’s agenda on immigration,” said Sarah Pierce, an…
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Fisk, ABC, Meharry, and TSU left out of $160 million philanthropic giving Billionaire Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced more than $1.7 billion in philanthropic giving to 116 institutions. An estimated $160 million of that giving is believed to have been given to several historically black institutions and two HBCU advocacy organizations here in Nashville. The late John Lewis is a graduate of Fisk University and American Baptist College and neither school was included on the list nor Meharry Medical College or Tennessee State University. The Thurgood Marshall College Fund, United Negro College Fund, Hampton University, Howard University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Tuskegee…
In this week when presidential candidate Joe Biden is making his Vice-Presidential choice, we call on him to invite former First Lady Michelle Obama to be his running mate on the 2020 Democratic ticket. Mr. Biden has casually suggested he would choose Ms. Obama “in a heartbeat.” We believe the moment has come for a formal invitation to be extended. Michelle Obama is the most admired woman in the world. As a candidate, she has the power not only to assure victory over Donald Trump but to unite a bitterly divided nation and continue her life’s tireless work for the…
By Carla Hendricks FRANKLIN, TN — Surrounded by a host of spirited counter-protestors yelling “white lives matter” and “all lives matter” around the square in Downtown Franklin, four local teenagers stood their ground in the center of the square on Friday to call for the removal of the historic monument of a Confederate soldier nicknamed “Chip” by local residents. “I feel like we prepared for the opposition,” Nia Williamson, a Franklin Road Academy graduate headed to Howard University this fall, told The Tennessee Tribune. “It was intimidating, but I felt empowered, because what I said about the statue coming down…
By Zhaoyin Feng, BBC Chinese Service, Washington WASHINGTON, DC — Stranded abroad by the coronavirus pandemic and squeezed by political tensions, Chinese students in the United States are rethinking their attitudes to their host and home countries. Eight years ago, Shizheng Tie, then aged 13, moved alone from China to rural Ohio for one sole purpose: education. She once had a budding American dream, but now she says she is facing hostility in that country. “As a Chinese living in the U.S., I am very scared now,” she says. Tie, now a senior student at Johns Hopkins University, describes America…
By Trevor Coleman and Trevor W. Coleman II For more than 50 years the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial diversity as a critical component of its corporate ethos. It is a philosophy that helped create a popular narrative and also focus on story that the Chicago-based company was a progressive business and a place where African Americans could grow, find mentors, promotions, and economic opportunity. However, that image was shattered this year in an explosive lawsuit brought by two African…
By Dr. Glenda Glover president, Tennessee State University Black women all across this nation should be outraged by the commentary that a qualified African American woman is “too ambitious” to be selected as the running mate for presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden. Biden allies, Chris Dodd, co-chair of the Biden Vice Presidential Selection Committee, along with major donors have essentially asserted that ambition should bar an otherwise qualified woman from consideration for the Biden ticket. Not only should Black women be outraged, but all Americans should be equally offended. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, African American women have excelled in…
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff A news photo of the 1964 racial attack spread around the world: 17-year-old Mimi Jones opens her mouth as if to scream as the white motel owner behind her dumps acid into the water of the Florida pool she was trying to integrate. “The water bubbled up like a volcano right in front of my face,” she told the Globe in 2017, describing the “swim-in” at the motel in St. Augustine, a community that was then a focal point of civil rights demonstrations. Drawing international coverage, the vicious incident appeared to have had a catalyzing…
IN MEMORIAM: NNPA NEWSWIRE — Imogene’s calling in life was partnering with J.T. to run the family businesses – Harris Printing Company (established in the 1950s) and Gary INFO Newspaper (founded in 1963). They diligently produced a publication that became the voice of African Americans throughout Northwest Indiana for more than four decades. Imogene McDaniel Harris, November 20, 1931 – July 22, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) expresses sincere condolences to the family of Mrs. Imogene McDaniel Harris, the distinguished publisher of the Gary INFO Newspaper, founded in 1963, who passed on July 22, 2020.…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Nadine Shillingford Wondem has a Ph.D. in computer science and works for an IT security company. On her own time she does something else. “The style I use right now I started last March…just playing around with charcoal on paper. I draw every day,” Wondem said. A native of Dominica, an island in the Caribbean, Wondem went to college in Trinidad, studied in Michigan, and got her doctorate at Notre Dame. Her husband is also an IT engineer. Wondem taught for a while in Indiana and moved to Nashville in 2013 when she started…