Congratulations to Ms. Madeline René Whittaker on her appointment by Mayor John Cooper, members of the Metropolitan City Council and Sheriff Daron Hall to the Work Release Commission. The 12-member Commission establishes guidelines for offender participation in the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office work/educational release program. Whittaker, a member of Les Gemmes Incorporated-Nashville Chapter, became more interested in public service after graduating in November 2019 from Sheriff Hall’s Inaugural Citizens Academy where she spent six weeks “learning about the complexities of operating jails, booking arrestees, housing inmates, and various other duties associated with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office.” After Whittaker…
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NASHVILLE, TN — Job seekers are invited to a hospitality industry job fair on March 10 as the city brings together employers in the tourism and convention sectors for a hiring event. The job fair will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Southeast Community Center, 5260 Hickory Hollow Parkway, Antioch. This is the fifth time the hospitality industry has come together to host a citywide job fair as Nashville’s momentum as a global destination continues. The job fair is free and open to the public. The job fair is hosted by the Nashville Convention and Visitors…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — American Baptist College (ABC) is where passionate young preachers go who want to change the world and learn how to do it. During the Civil Rights Era, ABC was known as the “University of Nonviolence”. Students called their campus the “Holy Hill” and it was the civil rights movement’s research laboratory. “Here the nonviolent sit-in was first methodically theorized, practiced, and tested,” wrote historian Townsend Davis. Davis said an extraordinary number of Civil Rights Movement leaders got their start in Nashville. Among them were James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, John Lewis, and C.T. Vivian. Their…
MURFREESBORO, TN — MTSU’s observance of National Women’s History Month will be an appreciation of nearly 100 years of American women’s suffrage. “Nevertheless She Persisted: Valiant Women of the Vote” is the theme under which the campus community will celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted officially on Aug. 26, 1920. The amendment reads, in full, “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. Congress shall have the power to enforce this…
OAKLAND, CA March 2, 2020 PRNewswire — Seven high school youth leaders from Oakland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center will participate in the 2020 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama March 6-8 with Congresswoman Barbara Lee. The annual Pilgrimage was originated in 1998 by Congressman John Lewis and is a program of the Faith in Politics Institute. The Pilgrimage welcomes dozens of bi-cameral, bi-partisan Members of Congress, who travel together to Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, visiting pivotal sites in the Civil Rights history. The Pilgrimages explore the events that dramatically challenged racial discrimination and turned the course of American…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN – Following a traffic stop in East Nashville, MNPD Officer Joshua Lippert killed Jocques Clemmons on February 2017. Metro Council approved $15 million for bodycams and dashboard cameras in June 2017. It’s taken nearly three years, but MNPD demonstrated the new cameras at Music City Center this week. Twenty-three cars and police officers equipped with cameras will finally hit the streets by mid-March. Twenty-five more will follow in May. (See Body Cameras). “I know it’s been a long process but we’ll start with 23 officers in our traffic division: our traffic division investigators, the DUI squad, the fatal crash…
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I intend to work for @cindyhydesmith as if the fate of America depended on her single election,” Gov. Phil Bryant tweeted on January 2. “If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the Senate, we will take that first step into a thousand years of darkness.” Fifty-two years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and 55 years after Jim Crow, Mississippi is burning again. Phil Bryant, the now-former governor of Mississippi – a state that was one of the flashpoints of the civil rights movement, and a haven for the…
NASHVILLE, TN — Vicki Yates brings Channel 5’s news every night at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Nashville SMSA benefits from more than three decades of experience and award-winning reporting. Vicki also co-hosts the annual Children’s Miracle Network Telethon benefiting Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, a testament to her community involvement on and off the air. Vicki’s career began in Detroit, Michigan while she was a student at Michigan State University. She began as a freelance reporter, working for one of the oldest African American newspapers in America – the Michigan Chronicle. While a junior at the University, Vickie was hired to work at WJIM-TV as a news reporter and her assignments included the crime beat. At WMJC Radio, Detroit, Vicki began working as a reporter,…
By Becky Ferreira Katherine Johnson, a mathematician and cultural icon who helped land the first humans on the Moon, died on Monday in Newport News, Virginia. She was 101. During her century of life, Johnson’s brilliance with numbers helped propel NASA toward its most coveted milestones. But in addition to her vital contributions to crewed space programs, Johnson is remembered for her quiet determination to thrive as an African-American woman in a field dominated by white men and during an era of rampant racial and sexual discrimination. In recent years, Johnson’s legacy both as a mathematician and a role model…
Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s response to attacks we all knew were coming. Commentary By Leona Dunn On stage February 19, 2020 in Las Vegas were former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Former Vice President Joe Biden, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). The NBC Nevada Democratic Debate was vicious. The ninth debate had six contenders, although there are still eight people running to be the democratic nominee. What the democratic candidates collectively called Trump on Wednesday, February 19th was nothing compared to what they called each other. The Nevada…