opportunity

16Jul

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WEBINAR EDUCATION

Online July 21, 2022: Bridging The Opportunity Gap To Reignite Start-ups With Craig Hall

BOOM! Somehow, since 1975 the US has lost HALF of the entrepreneurs we had back then. My guest on Thursday is Craig Hall, an entrepreneur ever since the 60’s. Craig has studied this drop off and long term threat to our economy. Tune in and learn why we should all be concerned about entrepreneurship in the US and what we need to do about it! Speaker Craig Hall Date & Time Thursday, July 21st, 2022 12:00PM - 1:00PM Central Location: Online Register Now Event Speaker Craig Hall Hall supports entrepreneurs and start-ups and together with his wife, funded the Fulbright Kathryn and Craig Hall Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship. Hall also founded the Dallas Regional Office of NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship). He has received a number of a...

The Heard v. Depp Trial – An Opportunity To Discuss The Nuances Of Intimate Partner Violence Not Just A Media Spectacle

2Jun

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CELEBRITY NEWS, TOP FOUR

The Heard v. Depp Trial – An Opportunity To Discuss The Nuances Of Intimate Partner Violence Not Just A Media Spectacle

Strip away the celebrity intrigue and media frenzy, and the high-profile court battle between actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard involves issues painfully familiar to many women and men across America. The civil defamation case, which ended on June 1, 2022 with a jury ruling largely in favor of Depp, centered around discussion of intimate partner violence. IPV is experienced by an estimated 6.6 million women and 5.8 million men each year in the U.S. Depp filed the libel lawsuit against Heard after she wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post describing her experience as a “public figure representing domestic violence.” A jury found that Heard had defamed Depp and awarded the American actor in excess of US$10 million in damages. Meanwhile Heard was awarded $2 million in a counterclaim after ...

A Night Market Creating Opportunity for Black Communities

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

A Night Market Creating Opportunity for Black Communities

It’s Friday night, and the Nashville Farmers’ Market is bustling. It’s not the usual vendors, though—gone are the baskets of tomatoes and piles of squash. Instead, folks are selling a wide range of products, including cocktails-to-go, beauty products, apparel, and more. Food trucks line the edges of the market, and a saxophone player sets a soundtrack of smooth hip-hop and jazz. On the first Friday of each month, the market’s physical space transforms into the Nashville Black Market—a marketplace composed entirely of Black-owned businesses. Carlos Partee’s tall frame rises above the milling customers. Partee is one of the co-founders of the Market and the owner of Cashville Etc., a clothing brand that sells apparel highlighting Nashville’s forgotten history. Together with Javvon Jones, wh...

21Nov

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Every Problem Is An Opportunity

Our problems are endless. We face problems from the day we begin to breathe. Even the most basic aspects of life begins as a problem. However, it is our instincts see each of these problems as challenges and approach them relentlessly as opportunities to grow. This wonderful attitude and behavior pattern surprisingly fades as we grow older. The key now is how we approach these problems in life. Some hurdles in life may be small and some very tough, but nevertheless, we use our internal positive will and energy to survive them. We can move further to solve many problems in our lives and accomplish many extraordinary things by seeing every problem as an opportunity and making each moment as the best thing that ever happened to us. The more difficult the problem is, the greater the challe...