By Brandi Hunter, High Ground News
A St. Louis-based nonprofit has entered the Memphis market to offer free coding classes and job readiness support with the aim of increasing diversity in the technology field. Memphis is the fifth city expansion...
by Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, Special to The New Tri-State Defender
In July 2018, Myiah Hill was a 27-year-old single mother of three, on public assistance and living in subsidized housing, making $5,000 a year and fresh out of options....
Memphis is known as hoop city. While growing up in this city, many young people have hoop dreams. On almost every corner, there are basketball goals on make-shift courts and in local parks.
But Shane Young and Devin O'Brien are...
Facing a packed audience at Clayborn Temple, Memphis-based startup Soundways received the ultimate vote of confidence from Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and Chairman and CEO of Revolution, a D.C.-based venture capital fund.Related: "As part of a national entrepreneurship...
The Fogelman College of Business and Economics, in partnership with Bank of America, has launched the FCBE Career Fellows Program to engage, educate and effectively prepare African American business students for professional success.
The partnership is described as a demonstration...
This moment was 100 years in the making.
Kadesha Gordon, an African-American woman and life-long Catholic, reared in the faith at St. Augustine Catholic Church in South Memphis, has found her way to Midtown.
She is the new principal, and the...
It’s going to be a red-letter year for Cordova Middle Optional School students. Just ask the new principal, Christopher Hardiman.
“Aim high,” said Hardiman. “That’s what I tell our students every day. I told my teachers, ‘You’re going to get...
The Board of Trustees of LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis' only four-year historically black college, today (July 30) announced it has selected Dr. Carol Johnson-Dean to serve as interim president, effective Aug. 26.
“Dr. Johnson-Dean’s breadth of educational leadership experience and unique...
Charles Muhammad, 50, graduated from LeMoyne-Owen College last Saturday (May 7), earning his bachelor’s degree in Social Work 32 years after leaving high school.
“That was one of my proudest moments,” said Muhammad.
“As the father of nine children, I have...
A charter school in Orange Mound has received a $5,000 grant towards the innovation of its parent resource center on Friday, November 17.
Arrow Academy of Excellence was awarded the grant last Friday (November 17) from First Tennessee’s Community Development...