Pat Thompson, coordinator at the Tennessee Technology Center at Memphis Aviation Campus, was among 11 women in the field of aviation/aeronautics who received the “Sisters of Distinction Award” during the Fly-Sister-Fly Empowerment Breakfast at the Mariott Downtown on Wednesday (Aug. 4th).
At NNPA deadline this week, there was one thing perfectly clear in just about all of fair-thinking America. That is that former Department of Agriculture Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod of South West Georgia had been hit and devastated by so-called “friendly fire”.
I hear there’s trouble on the set of Jada Pinkett-Smith’s TNT drama “HawthoRNe.” And rumor has it that it isn’t anyone who actually works on the show.
Musicians and fans from far and near gathered in Memphis last week for some of the best of a music genre that got its start down South in the Delta.
