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Hancock Whitney Names Shane Loper as Hancock Whitney Bank President

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

With former Hancock Whitney Bank President Joe Exnicios’ official retirement on March 1, 2024, after 46 years of service, Hancock Whitney has named current Chief Operating Officer D. Shane Loper to succeed Exnicios as bank president.

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  • With former Hancock Whitney Bank President Joe Exnicios’ official retirement on March 1, 2024, after 46 years of service, Hancock Whitney has named current Chief Operating Officer D. Shane Loper to succeed Exnicios as bank president.
  • Loper assumes the title of president of Hancock Whitney Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hancock Whitney Corporation (HWC) operating under the bank’s 1899 charter, which supports financial services regulatory requirements.
  • “Shane Loper’s 34 years of dedication to this organization, his astute executive leadership with our company and in the banking industry, and his keen understanding of what it takes to stay strong and successful in serving today’s clients prepare him well to assume the role as Hancock Whitney Bank President,” said Hancock Whitney Corporation President and CEO John Hairston.
  • “I am deeply honored and excited to be the bank’s next president,” said Loper.

Centric Brands Announces Joint Business Venture with Jennifer Fisher

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Centric Brands LLC (“Centric” or the “Company”) today announced a joint venture with Jennifer Fisher, renowned New York-based jewelry designer and media personality.

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  • Centric Brands LLC (“Centric” or the “Company”) today announced a joint venture with Jennifer Fisher, renowned New York-based jewelry designer and media personality.
  • This new venture will leverage the expertise of both companies to expand the Jennifer Fisher brand into new categories while accelerating domestic and international growth of the Jennifer Fisher core jewelry business.
  • "We are thrilled to welcome Jennifer Fisher into our world-class portfolio of industry-leading brands,” said Jason Rabin, Chief Executive Officer, Centric Brands.
  • “We have created a blueprint for incubating and growing brands that combines the strengths of Centric Brands with talented partners like Jennifer Fisher to create products and culture that resonates with customers.”
    Jarrod Kahn, Accessories Group President, Centric Brands said, “Together, Jennifer and the Centric team will continue to expand the Jennifer Fisher brand by expanding her existing jewelry business and delivering new product categories that resonate with consumers globally.

Infinity Home Services Expands to Canada with Acquisition of D’Angelo & Sons Roofing & Exteriors

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

The strategic acquisition establishes Infinity Home Services' entrance into the Canadian market and positions the company as the industry’s premier strategic partner in North America.

Key Points: 
  • The strategic acquisition establishes Infinity Home Services' entrance into the Canadian market and positions the company as the industry’s premier strategic partner in North America.
  • Infinity Home Services solidifies its position with the addition of D'Angelo & Sons, marking the company's 13th acquisition within just two years.
  • "We are delighted to partner with and welcome D'Angelo & Sons into the Infinity Home Services family.
  • For more information on Infinity Home Services and D’Angelo and Sons Roofing & Exteriors, visit www.infinityhomeservices.com and www.dangeloandsons.com .

Read the Chilling Message Directly from Jesus Christ About His Second Coming.

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

RAPID CITY, S.D., Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- New Harbor Press is pleased to announce the release in paperback, and eBook formats for the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, and the Apple iBookstore of Revived by Jesus Christ: His Return with Wrath by Manuel Giorgi of North Providence, RI.

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  • RAPID CITY, S.D., Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- New Harbor Press is pleased to announce the release in paperback, and eBook formats for the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, and the Apple iBookstore of Revived by Jesus Christ: His Return with Wrath by Manuel Giorgi of North Providence, RI.
  • Many years ago, God gave author Manuel Giorgi a prophesy that one day he would die, meet Jesus Christ, and come back.
  • This book is the riveting account of that event with a transformative message from the Son of God.
  • Revived by Jesus Christ (ISBN: 978-1-63357-443-4, Trade Paper, 186 pages, $16.99, PROPHECY), from New Harbor Press, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever fine books are sold.

For 150 years, Black journalists have known what confederate monuments really stood for

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Since then, two more major Confederate monuments have been removed: the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy in Jacksonville, Florida.

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  • Since then, two more major Confederate monuments have been removed: the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy in Jacksonville, Florida.
  • Defenders of Confederate monuments have argued that the statues should be left standing to educate future generations.
  • Despite meager financing and constant threats, these newspapers represented the views of Black Americans and documented the nation’s shortcomings in achieving racial equality.

‘Lost Cause’ propaganda

  • My research students and I have also reviewed countless reactions to the monuments published in real time in Black newspapers.
  • What is clear is that from the late nineteenth century until today, Confederate monuments were part of a relentless propaganda campaign to restore the South’s reputation at dedication ceremonies, parades, reunions and Memorial Day events.
  • The master of ceremonies of that unveiling was R.T.W.
  • Duke, Jr., the son of a Confederate colonel who was a popular orator at events like these.
  • A few years earlier, Duke made his own views of the Civil War plain.

A critical Black press

  • Contrary to the claims of today’s defenders of Confederate monuments, a review of Black newspapers going back to the 1870s conducted by my research team shows that Black journalists’ criticism of these memorials had already begun by the late nineteenth century.
  • The first truly national Confederate monument was the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond.
  • It was unveiled before an audience of as many as 150,000 attendees on May 29, 1890, and provoked sharp alarm among Black commentators across the country.
  • Mitchell further detailed the enthusiasm of the crowd assembled in Richmond.
  • “Cheer after cheer rang out upon the air as fair women waved handkerchiefs and screamed to do honor,” Mitchell wrote.
  • An article republished from the National Home Protector, a Baltimore-based Black newspaper, also took aim at the statue.
  • The editors of the newspaper accused white Southerners of trying to use the glorification of Lee to resurrect the “corpse of rebellion.”

Writing truth to power

  • No one knows what the Black-owned Charlottesville Messenger said about the unveiling of the Lee monument in its city in 1924.
  • For many Black editors, the monuments had become symbols of the violent backlash against Black citizenship by white Southerners.
  • Telling the truth about American history requires transforming these memorials into true reflections of the seemingly never-ending battles initially fought during the the Civil War.


Donovan Schaefer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Tom Kuhn joins Energy Impact Partner as Senior Advisor

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Energy Impact Partners (“EIP”), a global investment firm custom-built to invest in the energy transition, proudly welcomes utility industry veteran Tom Kuhn as a senior advisor.

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  • Energy Impact Partners (“EIP”), a global investment firm custom-built to invest in the energy transition, proudly welcomes utility industry veteran Tom Kuhn as a senior advisor.
  • In his role, Mr. Kuhn will provide senior business and strategic counsel to EIP’s 70+ strategic partners, 100+ portfolio companies and prospects to accelerate the pace of clean-energy innovation.
  • Throughout his notable career, Mr. Kuhn, former long-term President of Edison Electric Institute (“EEI”), played a pivotal role in advancing industry safety, leading clean energy transition efforts and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion across the industry.
  • Mr. Kuhn has served on the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board, the Alliance to Save Energy Board and the United States Energy Association Board.

2 colonists had similar identities – but one felt compelled to remain loyal, the other to rebel

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

They knew each other, were both supporters of libraries with successful legal careers, and were politically active.

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  • They knew each other, were both supporters of libraries with successful legal careers, and were politically active.
  • Both men claimed that they felt truly British – but from their shared identity they arrived at violently opposing conclusions.

Parallel paths

  • The stories of Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins begin as mirror images of each other, including growing up in Rhode Island.
  • He served as Overseer of the Poor, Smallpox Inspector, and in the Rhode Island General Assembly.
  • In the early 1760s, their paths might have seemed closely aligned.
  • Howard’s and Hopkins’ reactions to these laws marked a key phase of division between them, and across colonial North America.

Dueling pamphlets

  • Hopkins supported the loose coalition of organizations collectively known as the Sons of Liberty who campaigned against imperial taxation.
  • A close read of the pamphlets published by Howard and Hopkins in the mid-1760s shows they both invoke their common Anglo-American heritage – but only one would eventually come to the conclusion that it was necessary to sever that link.
  • To him, that included the right to have a voice in Parliamentary deliberations about colonial taxation, because he lived in Britain’s North American colonies.
  • But in Howard’s view, this did not include a right to vote in Parliamentary elections: Not all British people could vote, even if they lived in Britain.

A split based on shared identity and values

  • It was a revolution, but those who sought to break from Britain did so as a way of preserving their British identity.
  • This seeming contradiction helps illustrate why groups of people who shared Anglo-American identity and heritage fought on both sides of a violent war to preserve their divergent views of that identity and heritage.


Abby Chandler does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY LEADER TOM KUHN JOINS ANTERIX BOARD OF DIRECTORS AS VICE CHAIRMAN

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

WOODLAND PARK, N.J., Jan. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Anterix (NASDAQ: ATEX) announced today that Thomas R. Kuhn has joined the Anterix Board of Directors as its Vice Chairman after more than thirty years as President and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute ("EEI"), the trade association representing U.S. investor-owned electric utilities.

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  • WOODLAND PARK, N.J., Jan. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Anterix (NASDAQ: ATEX) announced today that Thomas R. Kuhn has joined the Anterix Board of Directors as its Vice Chairman after more than thirty years as President and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute ("EEI"), the trade association representing U.S. investor-owned electric utilities.
  • "Throughout Tom's tenure at EEI, he has exemplified visionary leadership and has achieved countless public policy and operational milestones for the utility industry," said Anterix Executive Chairman Morgan O'Brien.
  • "We are thrilled to welcome Tom to our Board and to have him join the industry-wide movement driving utility private broadband, in support of a secure and resilient clean energy future," added Anterix President & CEO Rob Schwartz.
  • Kuhn previously served on the Secretary of Energy's advisory board and the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The King Center in Atlanta to honor Michael J. Fox, Deloris Jordan, Ben Crump, Spelman College, Scott Harrison and others at Annual Beloved Community Awards with an AfterGlow Concert Featuring The Isley Brothers

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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Atlanta, GA., Dec. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, The King Center announced the honorees of the annual Beloved Community Awards ceremony.

Key Points: 
  • Atlanta, GA., Dec. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, The King Center announced the honorees of the annual Beloved Community Awards ceremony.
  • Co-hosted by Actors Dule’ Hill and Essence Atkins,  the ceremony will be on Saturday, January 13, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta.
  • The awards ceremony will also stream on Facebook, YouTube, and at thekingcenter.org on January 15, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. EST.
  • Their unwavering commitment to justice, equity and peace reflect the heart and soul of the Beloved Community,” said King Center CEO Dr. Bernice A.

PodcastOne (NASDAQ: PODC) Acquires Exclusive Rights to Hit Podcast Was I In A Cult? From Hosts Liz Iacuzzi and Tyler Measom

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

LOS ANGELES, CA, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire – PodcastOne (NASDAQ: PODC), a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne (NASDAQ: LVO), which owns ~80% of the PODC outstanding common stock, announced today that is has acquired the exclusive distribution and sales rights to the critically acclaimed and award winning podcast, Was I In A Cult? from hosts Liz Iacuzzi and Tyler Measom who lend their own personal cultic experiences to the pod.

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  • from hosts Liz Iacuzzi and Tyler Measom who lend their own personal cultic experiences to the pod.
  • Named Best Podcast by multiple publications including Vulture and Good Housekeeping, Was I In A Cult?
  • is a documentary-style podcast showcasing individuals who have been in, and most importantly, successfully left a cult.
  • “PodcastOne is thrilled to team with Liz and Tyler to reignite the fervor and phenomenon that surrounded Was I In a Cult?