NASHVILLE, TN — Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) awarded one scholarship during the TriState Minority Supplier Development Council (TSMSDC) Impact Awards Event held on April 26 in Nashville, Tenn. This marks the 15th year Bridgestone has awarded these scholarships. The recipient of this year’s Bridgestone’s scholarship funds was Gabriel Hutchinson, who plans to attend Fisk University in Nashville. Hutchinson is a senior at East Nashville Magnet School where he is vice president of the Honor Society, a Boys State Delegate and a tenor in the East Nashville Magnet Legacy Choir. He is also a member of the track and cross country teams.…
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TUPELO, MS – Today, Renasant (RNST: NASDAQ) Chief Executive Officer and President, C. Mitchell Waycaster, announced that Tracey Morant Adams, was named Senior Executive Vice President, and Chief Community Development and Corporate Social Responsibility Officer. In her continued capacity with Renasant, Adams will lead external community relations and social responsibility strategies for Renasant to further promote community and economic development programming throughout the Bank’s footprint. “Tracey is a tremendous asset to Renasant and her recognition as a Senior Executive within our company is well deserved,” said Waycaster. “Her ability to connect economic development and community development initiatives, foster corporate social…
NASHVILLE, TN — FB Financial Corporation (NYSE: FBK), the holding company of Nashville-based FirstBank, has been recognized for its board diversity for having more than 20 percent of its board of director’s seats held by women. FB Financial was recently named a 2020 Women on Boards Winning “W” Company for the year 2017, a recognition granted to publicly traded companies whose boards consist of at least 20 percent women. Only 36 percent of the 3,192 companies tracked last year reached that mark, according to 2020 Women on Boards, a nonprofit organization founded in 2010 with the goal of increasing the…
NASHVILLE, TN — The Nashville General Hospital Foundation recently hosted its second annual Spring Nashville Jazz Brunch. The event was held on Saturday, May 19, at the home of Kim Looney from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. During the event, guests, donors and sponsors enjoyed a Southern brunch and participated in a silent auction while listening to a live performance by the Erik Blue Band. All proceeds went towards the support of Nashville General Hospital’s patients.
Nonviolent Direct Action Planned in Nashville, Part of Wave of Protests to Hit 35 States, Washington, D.C. Poor People, Clergy, Advocates to Demand Reduction in Military Spending, Strengthening of Veterans Affairs System, Ban on Assault Weapons, and Demilitarization of Local Communities NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — For the third consecutive week, poor people, clergy and advocates will return to the Tennessee capital, as their historic reignition of the Poor People’s Campaign turns the focus of its protests to one of the 1968 movement’s main themes: militarism. Tuesday’s protest comes days after President Trump bragged to North Korea about the United States’ “massive…
The Delta Research and Educational Foundation (DREF), in collaboration with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST) and the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), is conducting a national health initiative entitled “Research Matters: Creating Possibilities to Achieve Health and Wellness for All of Us.” The initiative is made possible by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program. The program will launch in Nashville on Sunday, May 27 at 1 p.m. at the Kroger Supermarket on Clarksville Highway. The Nashville Alumnae Chapter will host the group during their visit to Nashville. DREF was selected as one of…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN Mayor David Briley will keep his job at least for another year. In a crowded field of thirteen, the 54-year old Briley got 54 percent of the vote and avoided a run-off with conservative challenger, Carol Swain. About 20 percent of Davidson County’s 398,379 registered voters cast ballots in the special election May 24. Of the 82,082 votes cast, 44,707 voters picked Briley. Swain got 18,795 votes, or 23 percent. Less than a thousand more votes for Swain could have forced a run-off. The Special Election cost taxpayers about $1 million. Considering Tennessee ranks dead…
By Arnett H. Bodenhamer, Sr. U.S. Army, Retired The latest verbal assault levied on Metro Nashville Public Schools Director, Dr. Shawn Joseph, is indicative of how far some people will go to disparage Nashville’s first African-American superintendent. Despite all of the very serious issues needing our community’s attention, we are now discussing Joseph’s playing of the first three lines of a popular song during a principals’ meeting. I refer to this latest brouhaha as “WhistleGate.” Joseph came to Nashville with impeccable credentials having earned degrees from three of the nation’s finest universities. He brought with him an unblemished reputation…
NANNING, CHINA — Middle Tennessee State University and its primary research partner in China agreed to create a joint ginseng institute that will study, develop and promote Tennessee-grown herbal products for sale in Asia and other emerging markets. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Miao Jianhua, director of the Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, signed the agreement during McPhee’s barnstorming trip through China that has taken him also to Beijing, Hangzhou and Changsha. The new International Ginseng Institute, with MTSU professor Iris Gao serving as its American director, will spin off from the Tennessee Center for Botanical Medicine Research…
NASHVILLE, TN — Beyoncé recently announced that she was donating $100,000 to four historically black colleges and universities through her BeyGOOD initiative. One week later, just when you thought the first weekend of Beychella and her subsequent HBCU scholarship announcement would be impossible to top, Beyoncé took #Beychella2 even further over the top, then announced that four more $25,000 scholarships had been added to her Homecoming Scholars Award Program. The four additional scholarships come courtesy of Google.org, Google’s charitable organization, which announced that it was matching Beyoncé’s original donation in a press release on Monday. The $25,000 grants will be…