February 26 A Red Carpet Evening at the Belcourt Theatre: Join film fans on Hollywood’s biggest night to watch on the Belcourt’s big screens! Walk the red carpet, and enjoy a sumptuous spread of food and drink, a fun silent auction, a glamorous VIP lounge—and lots of movie buzz! Your ticket purchases for A Red Carpet Evening support the nonprofit Belcourt Theatre (and are tax-deductible) Event starts at 7 pm. www.belcourt.org Jazz on the Move. The Nashville Jazz Workshop, in collaboration with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, continues with its popular jazz performance and education series, Jazz on the Move.…
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MEMPHIS, TN — For the first time, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is partnering with the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) for its annual Seatbelts Are For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) campaign. This statewide initiative is designed to increase seat belt and child passenger safety restraint usage through the implementation of occupant-protection programs, public events, and checkpoints throughout communities across Tennessee. In its fourth year, the campaign began this month and concludes August 1. According to the THSO, more than 50 percent of vehicle occupants killed in crashes in Tennessee were not wearing seat belts. In 2012, seat belts saved…
Do not be distracted. We have become so obsessed with the lies, misuses of power and rhetoric from the White House we have lost sight of some of the real issues. America’s infrastructure, which used to be the envy of the world, is falling apart and we have a lot of work to do to put it back together. Instead of worrying about repeal and replacing the Affordable Care Act, the government needs to worry about repairing and replacing our depleting roads, out of date power grid and crumbling dams. Scientists anticipate the changing weather patterns associated with climate change…
The all-new 2017 S90 is Volvo’s luxury 4-door, 5-seat flagship sedan. It takes cues from the success of the award-winning XC90 SUV and raises the bar with stunning Scandinavian design, a sumptuous interior and a powerful four-cylinder Drive-E engine. But the Volvo S90 is also making headlines on this side of the pond too. It’s the first car in the United States to offer semi-autonomous driving technology as standard. Two world-first safety technologies will also come as standard. The “Large Animal Detection” can automatically stop the car to avoid or mitigate a collision while Run-Off Road Mitigation can detect if…
By Keena Day NASHVILLE, TN — Being targeted as a black driver is hotly debated. Angry words are heard. They’ve increased here because Jocques Clemmons was killed running from a traffic stop. “We are here tonight because of injustice,” Joanie Evans said Feb. 16 while opening a community briefing by Gideon’s Army to discuss its “Driving While Black” study. “We are here tonight to end business as usual.” Some 44 years ago, the Nashville Branch of the NAACP persuaded officials to exhume a police shooting victim and proved he was shot in the back. Now, Dr. Charles Kimbrough, president of…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN – Neil Gorsuch will go to Capitol Hill next month where Senate Democrats lack the votes to block his confirmation to the Supreme Court. While the outcome is predictable the Gorsuch nomination didn’t begin that way. It unfolded a bit like a James Bond movie and a bit like the reality TV show, “The Apprentice”. The President’s pick was secretly driven down a mountain road in Colorado and he boarded a military plane that took him to Washington where he spent the night at a friend’s house. One of the other three judges on the…
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Washington, D.C. – The nation’s mayors today hosted a National Mayors’ Day of Action to stress the serious impact that losing healthcare coverage would have on millions of Americans. Mayors from cities large and small joined with key stakeholders, including residents, small businesses, hospital administrators, and others to underscore the importance of the patient protections included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which have enjoyed bipartisan support, and protected innumerable Americans from the catastrophic cost of illness. Mayors are using #MayorsStand4All in their social media to amplify the message today and beyond. A list of participating mayors is available here.…
Daytona Beach, FL.- President Edison O. Jackson, the sixth leader of Bethune-Cookman University, is one of many Historically Black College and University (HBCU) presidents headed to Washington, D.C. next week. The presidents have been invited to have a sit down with President Donald Trump and his administration. President Jackson and his colleagues will share their concerns, propose solutions and hope for the 45th President’s support. President Jackson will chat with media outlets on the campus of B-CU on Thursday, February 23 at 1 p.m. He will share his plans and how the administration can help B-CU and other HBCUs. The…
February 16, 2017, at a special preview event for the new documentary “American Masters — Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), Dr. Maya Angelou’s grandson Colin Johnson, Co-Founder and Principal of Caged Bird Legacy, LLC, presented Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) and President Bill Clinton (center) with a plaque of Dr. Maya Angelou’s inauguration poem, “On The Pulse of Morning,” that flew on the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) December 5, 2014. Credit: Joseph Sinnott/©2017 WNET