By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies brings tap to Nashville’s TPAC for one night only this Friday, March 17. Arnold started the Syncopated Ladies when she moved to Los Angeles in 2003. She saw a lack of platforms for young, Black, women in tap. While some viewed tap as an outdated art form, Arnold saw something more. She noted that current tap was one way, she saw a way to make it relevant to a new generation. A desire to bring hip-hop, R&B, and salsa to tap led her to speak with her mentor Debbie Allen,…
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By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — Governor Bill Lee’s recent decision to decline money from the CDC for HIV care and prevention comes on the heels of a recent study from Innerbody Research that shows Memphis has the highest rate of STDs in the United States. In the rest of Tennessee, Nashville came in at 39 and Knoxville came in at 71. Eric Rodriguez, CEO of Innerbody Research, stated that it has been challenging to find accurate information about STD’s. To derive their rankings, they use publicly available data provided by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for four STDS…
By Tribune Staff March 3 rd thru 5 th saw President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton bring Clinton Global Initiative University to Vanderbilt. The weekend featured student-led projects created to better their community with multiple Vanderbilt students taking part in the event. President Clinton opened the event stating, “our differences are profoundly important but they only really work when our common humanity matters more.” According to Secretary Clinton noted CGI-U discussed major issues facing the global community including climate change, health equity, education, and reproductive rights. The event featured also featured remarks from Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, and…
NASHVILLE, TN — American Baptist College’s 65th Garnett|Nabrit Lecture Series is upon us, set for March 20-22, 2023. This will be the first in-person series since 2020. The last two have been virtual, because of COVID-19. The event will be held at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church, located at 1203 Ninth Ave., N, in Nashville, and the late night services will be at Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church, located at 2708 Jefferson Street. You may register at www.abcnash.edu This year’s theme is “Where Legacy meets the Future…On the Road to 100. Celebrating History|Shaping the Future. “We are so excited about our…
By Amanda Seitz WASHINGTON, DC — If you get health care coverage through Medicaid, you might be at risk of losing that coverage over the next year. Roughly 84 million people are covered by the government-sponsored program, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But as states begin checking everyone’s eligibility fo r Medicaid for the first time in three years, as many as 14 million people could lose access to that health care coverage. A look at why so many people may no longer qualify for the Medicaid program over…
By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — Despite progress made over the past 20 years, Black women in Tennessee still face substantial hurdles to reach pay equity. Noreen Farrell of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) states that “Black women in Tennessee make on average just 58 cents to the dollar earned by white men.” Half of Black and Latina women in Tennessee say they are struggling to make ends meet. While systemic issues exist that continue to perpetuate the gender and race wage gap, ignorance continues to be the greatest barrier to pay equity. Many companies locally and nationally are not measuring…
By Tribune Editorial Staff At a time when we should be celebrating the accomplishments of Tennessee State University, our elected officials have chosen to scold and attempt to relinquish power from the only public HBCU in the state’s capital. Under its current leadership, President Glenda Glover and the Governor’s appointed Board of Trustees, TSU has experienced its largest first-time freshmen enrollment in history, a record endowment, R2 Carnegie Research Designation, a new dormitory facility, the Dr. Levi Watkins Physician and Dentist Accelerated Pathway with Meharry Medical College, and a Two-Time Grammy Award-Winning Band to name a few. The school has…
By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — The F.I.N.D. Design is working in schools, courts, and the community to bring healing for Black and Brown girls in Tennessee. Growing up in suburban Detroit, Kara James saw both sides of the Black experience in America. She was surrounded by Black excellence and Black trauma. On one side she saw Black and Brown doctors, lawyers, and nurses, while also seeing social ills like mass incarceration and violence. As a teenager, she relocated to small-town Tennessee and entered a world that did not want to understand her nor her life. Her early lived experiences…
By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — Local non-profit, The Joseph Family Foundation, has been bringing attention to the International Refugee Assistance Project’s Climate Displacement Program (IRAP) mission to change the lives of individuals impacted by climate change. Sophie Joseph and IRAP worked with The Joseph Family Foundation to hold a Casino Night on January 27, 2023 at 14TENN, raise awareness for those impacted by climate displacement. The event raised money, continuing the important work around climate displacement and climate migration. According to IRAP, since 2008, environmental disasters have displaced approximately three times more people than violence and armed conflict. As…
By Tribune Staff NASHVILLE, TN — Amanda H. North, Williamson County’s first Black principal, will be the namesake for a new elementary school in Spring Hill. A lifelong educator, North began teaching in the 1930s after graduating high school in a one-room school in Southall and was named principal of Thompson’s Station Elementary School that served Black children. When that school closed, North continued her work as principal at Evergreen Elementary School. While teaching, North decided to complete her education at Tennessee State University in the summer months and graduated. She was a beloved member of the community, and, though…