NASHVILLE, TN — A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fisk University, Janie Harris became Vanderbilt’s first-ever African American female graduate. Her 37-year legal career included government service and work as a corporate counsel at several major financial institutions. Harris has been active in community service, serving on the YWCA’s national board and helping to found CABLE, a Nashville networking group for professional women, where she also served as president. Harris spent 12 years working for the federal government as an attorney in the Government Accountability Office and in the Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency, and as a trial lawyer…
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NASHVILLE, TN — Pastor Howard Jones, senior pastor of Fairfield M. B. Church in Goodlettsville and an assistant principal at Stratford High School, has announced his candidacy for Metro Council-At-Large. Jones has been active in the Metropolitan Nashville Community all of his adult life. He has served as the senior pastor of Fairfield for 30 years and has worked in the Metropolitan Nashville Public School System for approximately 30 years as well. Jones also served as a Metropolitan Nashville Juvenile Court Probation Officer prior to joining MNPS. “I am willing to serve and fight for the people of Davidson County. …
On Monday morning, May 20, 2019, Lori Lightfoot was sworn in as Chicago’s 56th mayor. Alongside the new mayor was the City Council’s 50 aldermen — clapping, smiling, possibly seething a little — whose power she has vowed to diminish. Ms. Lightfoot, an outsider candidate who won nearly 75 percent of the vote to become mayor of the nation’s third-largest city, has made it her first major order of business to end what is known in Chicago as Aldermanic Prerogative. That is an unwritten rule that gives aldermen unfettered zoning and permitting power in their own wards. It is also…
NASHVILLE, TN — Applications for Cohort II of the Called to Lives of Meaning & Purpose Initiative are available. Pastors and Ministers are eligible to apply to participate in the next Cohort of this initiative. “The American Baptist College-Called to Lives of Meaning & Purpose Initiative is a ground breaking process and commitment which engages design thinking to discern what it means to be called in these times,” said ABC President Forrest E. Harris. During a two-year cohort-intensive process, as well as, an additional third year of real-world engagement, congregations will discern and develop initiatives for engaging with the community…
ATLANTA, GA — Billionaire Robert F. Smith gave Morehouse scholars the ultimate graduation gift when he vowed to eliminate the student debt of the entire Class of 2019. The technology investor, who received an honorary doctorate from the HBCU, made the surprise announcement during the institution’s Sunday morning commencement. “On behalf of the eight generations of my family that have been in this country, we’re going to put a little fuel in your bus,” he said during his speech. “This is my class, 2019. And my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans.” In 2015, he married…
NASHVILLE, TN — Classical musician Titus Underwood was recently awarded the coveted position of Principal Oboe or the Nashville Symphony. After national auditions and serving in the interim position since 2017, Mr. Underwood officially has the position. “I am so honored to have been selected. The Nashville Symphony is such an exciting group of musicians to work with,” says Titus about his latest accomplishment. The Nashville Symphony’s Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero said. “I am immensely thrilled to welcome Titus as an official member of the Nashville Symphony. For the past two years, he has contributed significantly in his role as…
By Mark Hedin, Ethnic Media Services SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Census Bureau undercounts Native Americans more than any other ethnic group. A group of Native American media representatives met recently in Sacramento with state officials to brainstorm how to reverse the undercount in 2020. Those media in attendance were: Hoopa Radio,Indian Country Today, Indian Voices, News from Native California, the Two Rivers Tribune, the Quechan Indian Tribe’s KUAV-FM, KPRI-FMfrom the Pala Indian Reservation and FNX-TV. Also on hand were state government and Ethnic Media Services staff. When it comes to participating in the 2020 Census and getting that message out…
NASHVILLE—The Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators renews its call for Speaker Casada to resign immediately; and demands that Governor Lee call the General Assembly into Special Session.The overwhelming majority of the members of the TN House of Representatives have expressed their desire to move the State of Tennessee towards healing under new leadership in the Speaker’s office.Rebuilding trust with our colleagues, engendering respect among our citizens and restoring confidence in the institution requires a new beginning.New leadership is necessary now; not after months of additional chaos and mounting embarrassments founded in racism, misogyny, corruption and violations of constitutional and…
Dedicated public servant and longtime Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County employee Charlie Cardwell will lie in state at the Historic Metropolitan Courthouse on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. A native Nashvillian, Mr. Cardwell helped lead our city forward for 60 years. His steady presence and keen mind for finance were constants in Nashville’s progress, and his devotion to our community and its institutions was unmatched. Mr. Cardwell was appointed Metro Trustee in 1993 and was re-elected by the voters of Davidson County to six 4-year terms. At 9:15 a.m., Mr. Cardwell’s family will…
NASHVILLE, TN – Their paths converged at City Hall on Thursday, May 16. Hundreds of school teachers, some wearing red and some black t-shirts, marched over the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge and rallied at Public Square. Meanwhile, MNPS officials went inside to tell the Budget and Finance Committee that Mayor Briley’s $914.5 million school budget falls $50 million short of providing even the barest necessities for Metro’s 82,000 students in 157 schools. “The budget that the Board of Education proposed and approved is based upon what the board believes are the essential priorities necessary for success,” said School Board Budget Chair…