By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN – The United Auto Workers (UAW) represent about 46,000 GM workers at 55 facilities in the U.S. More than 90% of them voted to strike if the UAW couldn’t negotiate a better deal with GM by midnight Sunday September 15. They didn’t come to terms, so at the GM plant in Spring Hill 3,600 autoworkers struck in the wee hours of Monday morning. According to the Detroit News, workers finished their shift at the GM assembly plant in Flint, Michigan, Sunday at midnight. They got into their cars and in single file left the plant…
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BY MARK HEDIN Ethnic Media Services Prop. 1 funding has helped advance a long list of projects up and down the state to provide Californians safe drinking water. It was key in East Porterville, an unincorporated, low-income, mostly Latino community of about 7,500 that, Ryan Jensen, of Community Water Center in Visalia, told Ethnic Media Services was “ground zero” for drought impacts in 2014-2017. “Nearly a third of the community had no water service,” Jensen recalled. Between state, county and Porterville local officials, he said “nobody took responsibility.” Meeting the community’s needs was “going around like a hot potato for…
NASHVILLE, TN – Blacks in this town voted for John Cooper because they were tired of lip service to fair play and equal opportunity. He promised a city that works for everybody. And he promised to put sidewalks and bus stops in other neighborhoods besides Green Hills. “I think with all that’s happened in Nashville over the last two years with the instability, Cooper represented a stable voice and that’s what Nashvillians were looking for,” said Jeff Obafemi Carr. A former mayoral candidate, Carr joined Cooper’s campaign in June as senior advisor. Cooper wants to audit the Finance Department and…
By Jemell T. Cotton WASHINGTON, DC — Hiram E. Jackson, chief executive officer of Real Times Media (RTM), has been re-elected to the board of directors of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)—the national trade organization that represents African American newspapers and media companies—representing NNPA’s Region 3. “I am honored to have been re-elected to serve such a historic organization at such a pivotal point in its evolution,” said Jackson. “I understand the challenges that publishers face, and I am excited to work collaboratively to create viable solutions that will benefit all NNPA members.” Real Times Media is a multimedia…
WILLIAMSBURG, VA -— Tennessee Judge Duane Slone is the 2019 recipient of the National Center for State Courts’ (NCSC) William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence, one of the highest judicial honors in the country. Judge Slone, of the Circuit Court in the Fourth Judicial District, is being recognized for his ground-breaking work helping people with opioid use disorder. The award will be presented to Judge Slone by the Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr. during a ceremony at the U.S. Supreme Court November 21. He is the first Tennessee judge to win the prestigious award.…
NASHVILLE, TN — American Baptist College (ABC) receives $5,000 from the Central Area of the Links, Incorporated following its 45th Central Area Conference, held July 31-Aug. 4 in Nashville at the iconic Opryland Hotel. Dr. Forrest Harris, President of ABC said, “We deeply appreciate these funds to further assist our students. This support shows we are profoundly linked.” President Harris spoke at the opening session of the conference. “Nashville is a great city, but like every city, there are needs that remain unmet,” said 19th Central Area Director Glenda Masingale Manson. “We selected Nashville for our conference because it is…
MURFREESBORO, TN — One of the most prominent nursing professors in the nation has tips for MTSU nursing faculty to help them share their knowledge. Marilyn H. Oermann, the Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing at Duke University, recently spoke to an audience of health care educators in the Cason-Kennedy Nursing Building. “She is probably one of the most highly published nurse scholars of our time,” said Deborah Lee, the university’s National Health Care Corp. Chair of Excellence in Nursing. “She has over 21 books. She has over 170 … articles published in peer-reviewed journals.” Oermann’s message to the nursing…
Tennessee Tech University officials announced information about incoming students for this academic year, along with preliminary enrollment figures, today. The university welcomed more than 2,500 new students this fall, including more than 1,700 new freshmen and nearly 800 transfer students. This year saw an increase in the number of transfer students choosing Tech to continue their education. The top five schools that saw students transfer to Tech were all community colleges: Roane State, Vol State, Motlow State, Pellissippi State and Columbia State. “Tech is a great place for someone who has taken advantage of Tennessee Promise or attended a community…
“They aren’t going to get you for using benefits. They are going to get you for being poor and black and brown,” said Amanda Lugg of African Services Committee, a multiservice human rights agency in Harlem. NASHVILLE, TN – The Department of Homeland Security proposed a new Public Charge rule in 2018. More than a quarter million people told DHS they didn’t like it. They were a broad cross-section of Americans: immigrants, members of Congress, Mayors, business leaders, educators, healthcare providers, and many others. The Trump administration decided to ignore them all. “On August 12 the Trump administration announced a…
Students attend class for Hospitality Program NASHVILLE, TN. (TSU News Service) — Tennessee State University’s Hospitality and Tourism program in the College of Business is helping students capitalize on the state’s multibillion-dollar tourism and hospitality industry. Last year, Nashville took in $7 billion from tourists, according to the Nashville Convention and Visitors Corporation. TSU has been a leader among other local colleges in providing education in Tourism and Hospitality to meet the needs of the booming industry in Nashville. “The partnerships we’ve cultivated with businesses and organizations across the city have been vital to our success as educators,” says TSU…