Author: Tribune Staff

WASHINGTON – President-elect Trump should take immediate steps to eliminate his foreign financial conflicts of interest, according to a U.S. House resolution co-sponsored by Nashville’s congressman. “The Constitution requires all U.S. presidents to be free from foreign influence and control,” U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper of Nashville said Thursday, Jan. 5. “No president is above the law.” Donald Trump has an unprecedented number of foreign conflicts of interest, given his business ventures around the world and his assertion that the Emoluments Clause does not apply to him. The Constitution states otherwise in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:  “no Person holding…

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MEMPHIS, TN — Madeleine Taylor, retired after 26 years with the NAACP including six years as director. Taylor retired in December 2016. Taylor has been integral to the work of the civil rights organization that has been an essential part of the city’s history before, during and after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. She had the opportunity to serve the community in a number of different venues whether voter empowerment, employment, criminal justice, health care, education or youth work. She said “This journey has been truly invaluable and I hope that I have been able to…

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Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover has always declared the university belongs to the community. The last few years, TSU has celebrated the New Year with a prayer service to reaffirm the strong relations Dr. Glover and the institution have with the Nashville community. TSU will hold its fifth annual prayer service on Wednesday, January 4, at 8 a.m. It will take place at Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church located at 2708 Jefferson St., Nashville, TN, 37208. Dr. Glover is the keynote speaker. Other program participants include Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, State Rep. Harold Love, Jr., and community activist and…

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Michael Watson, owner and founder of Music City Auto Spa, understands that busy professionals value their time. Well aware that so many people have agendas and deadlines, Michael started his company to make sure that the needs of his customer’s cars would never be overlooked. Music City Auto Spa’s goal is to be their client’s personal car concierge, providing a car service that is “showroom clean.” As the child of two entrepreneurial parents, Michael always knew that he would one day have his own business. “They always installed in me to be a leader and to navigate my own success,”…

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NASHVILLE, TN — Alex Coure is like a squeaky wheel that gets no grease. A minority business owner, Coure helped Ricoh-USA win a contract with Metro schools in 2012, public records show. The bid was for $1.7 million to provide printers and copiers for Metro’s 153 schools. Under the terms of the 5-year con- tract Ricoh agreed to give 7.14 percent of the work in its bid to Coure’s company, IT Solutions by Design Inc. That amounts to $120,000. It didn’t happen, so Coure asked Councilwoman Erica Gilmore for help. In August 2013, Metro school officials met with Coure and…

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MEMPHIS, TN — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will graduated 135 new health care professionals during its winter commencement on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. in the Cook Convention Center Grand Ballroom, 255 North Main Street. “The faculty and staff of UTHSC celebrate the success of our graduates,” said Lori Gonzalez, PhD, vice chancellor of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs at UTHSC. “This new generation of health care providers has been educated to be skilled, compassionate and caring, and to positively impact the health of the communities where they live and work.” University of Tennessee…

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Wouldn’t it be nice to end the old year or start the New Year in a brand new 2017 All-New FIAT® 124 Spider Lusso? Whether you’re coming or going, heads will definitely turn to get a glimpse of this classic roadster sports car beauty.Whether you’re coming or going, heads will definitely turn to get a glimpse of this sports car classic roadster beauty. But what good is a roadster that doesn’t hug the road? That’s why the FIAT® 124 Spider Lusso features an electric power assist steering system, which delivers a precise steering response optimized to match driver tendencies. The…

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Art

Little of beauty has America given the world…; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty. And so by fateful chance the Negro folk-song—the rhythmic cry of the slave—stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas. It has been neglected, it has been, and is, half despised, and above all it has been persistently mistaken and misunderstood; but notwithstanding, it still remains as the singular spiritual heritage of the nation and the greatest gift of…

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State Rep. Brenda Gilmore discusses the political highs and lows of 2016 on Take 10 on Tuesdays with The Tennessee Tribune. Gilmore, who was just elected to her sixth term in office and is ending her term as chair of the Black Caucus, talked with Tribune Editorial Director about legislation passed by the Tennessee Legislature in 2016 and what’s ahead for 2017. She also discussed the presidential election and what that may mean for the Nashville community. Every Tuesday the Tennessee Tribune takes the time out to interview citizens of the Metro-Nashville area who are doing important things in their…

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk announced today that, thanks to support from Mayor Megan Barry, an expanded team focused on child sexual assault cases is now in place. The Child Sexual Assault (CSA) team is responsible for the prosecution of crimes against our most vulnerable citizens, the children of Nashville. “Short of murder, the most heinous crime that can occur in our community is the sexual exploitation of a child,” said General Funk. “Through Mayor Barry’s leadership we have been able to expand our team that investigates and prosecutes such crimes. Her FY2017 budget has made…

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