By Erica Martin and Jillian Garnett, Tennessee Tribune Summer Interns NASHVILLE, TN July 12, 2018 — In the greater Nashville area, there are many summer camps for kid’s ages 6-16, but many parents are desiring a safe space for their children. For the second year, TSU has hosted sports and music camps created by From the Heart Education Foundation in collaboration with the Office of International Affairs Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) program. This foundation is a not-for profit organization co-founded by TSU Alumni Dr. Jewell Winn and Kerry Frazier, along with Vanderbilt Alum Corey Harris and Lisa Petros, Business Owner/Community Volunteer. …
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From Staff Reports NASHVILLE, TN — With more land than other districts and its own big issues, Metro Council’s June 28 District 1 run-off election is critical to residents and city development. An Invest Bordeaux advocate and a former planning commissioner want to succeed Nick Leonardo, the second man to leave the seat open since Loniel Greene resigned with less than five months in office. Jonathan Hall or Rev. Dr. Judy Cummings will serve the balance of that term which ends in August 2019. Hall, a life-long resident of the district, advocates for the welfare of the residents in parts…
From Staff Reports NASHVILLE, TN — Before founding the Education Equal Opportunity Group, George Thomas was a Chattanooga Civil Rights legislator’s aide on Capitol Hill. Now, he’s campaigning to be a state senator. Thomas, 45, of Bordeaux is campaigning to represent retiring Sen. Thelma Harper’s district: Nashville’s inner city service area; Antioch; and part of North Nashville, an historically black district with underlying tensions of gentrification. A campaign aide calls it a contest between Thomas, a prominent minister/educator and somebody with social connections. Thomas says when Tommie Florence represented Chattanooga in the House, he helped her and others fight for…
By The Tennessee Tribune Editorial Board Politicians are human beings, not Gods or robots, so expecting perfection out of them is ridiculous and absurd. So is thinking that women should be held to different standards of public conduct, or getting upset when a woman in office behaves as poorly as a man when it comes to personal morality? The only thing that should ever be at issue regarding any executive from President to Mayor is their effectiveness in office, their leadership and track record in regards to keeping campaign promises. On all of these points, Mayor Megan Barry has been an…
NASHVILLE, TN — The Cloud Hill Partnership announced today that it has formally withdrawn from the contract it was awarded by Metro to revitalize the former Greer Stadium site. “The Cloud Hill Partnership was formed to rethink the way we build communities by attracting new sources of socially minded, private capital to address the changing realities of cities in the 21st century,” said Bert Mathews, principal of the Cloud Hill Partnership. “After several months of studying the extremely challenging site since being awarded the contract in May, it has become clear that several issues, including the appropriate yet still uncertain approach to archaeology based…
In the wake of shootings and killings taking place in recent days, there will be a Prayer Vigil for Families on Tuesday, January 16, at 5:30 p.m. at the Kingdom Café & Grill, located at 2610 Jefferson Street. Recent killings include two children as part of a domestic violence dispute, and a workplace shootings among others. “We are experiencing families being destroyed because of senseless violence. Domestic violence, teenage violence, adult violence and workplace violence. It seems to never end, said Pastor Howard Jones, Senior Pastor of Fairfield M.B. Church and candidate for Tennessee State Senate, District 19.” “It must…
Dear Vice Mayor Briley, Members of the Council, and Hospital Authority Members, This past week, Vice Mayor Briley and I met with the Chair and Executive Director of the Hospital Authority to discuss next steps to reach our goal of improving healthcare for our citizens while maintaining the City’s fiscal integrity. As a result of this meeting and with the recommendations of Vice Mayor Briley, we believe we should take the following steps to move forward: • Commitment to funding the Hospital Authority to continue inpatient services at least through the end of an investigatory and decision-making process for the future model of…
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and Christoph Communications are teaming up to promote Nashville’s ethnic community through Nations in our Neighborhood, which showcases Nashville restaurants organized by country. A team of students from the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures will work with Christoph to launch a citywide campaign on “Embracing the Nations in our Neighborhood” and assist in the development of cross-cultural training. “We are always excited to see our students collaborating with local ventures that positively impact Nashville,” said the dean of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School, M. Eric Johnson. Renuka Christoph, owner, explains that a…
WASHINGTON, DC — A memorial service for trailblazing civil rights journalist Simeon Booker will be held on Monday, January 29, 2018, his wife, Carol McCabe Booker, has announced. The service is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Booker, a journalistic icon, died Dec. 10 at the age of 99. Booker’s more than half-century of civil rights reporting, most notably the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, helped propel the civil rights struggle onto the front pages of newspapers across the country which had long ignored the oppression of Black Americans. Previously,…