LEBANON, Tenn. – WSMV4’s sports anchor Chris Harris will moderate Cumberland University’s Rise Above discussion panel with Tim Tebow on Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in Baird Chapel. In April, Cumberland announced two-time national champion, first-round NFL draft pick, Heisman Trophy winner and author Tim Tebow as this year’s Rise Above speaker at Homecoming. This speaker series will provide students, members of the community and prospective students the opportunity to learn and gain insight through the experiences of others. After Tim Tebow speaks at Nokes-Lasater Field at 2 p.m. on the day of Homecoming, he will attend an invitation-only moderated discussion…
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Post News Group Staff Washington, DC – Congresswoman Barbara Lee applauded President Biden for announcing that the United States will host the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference on Sept. 19, 2022 in New York City. The United States is proud to be a founding contributor of, and the largest single donor to, the Global Fund, having contributed nearly $20 billion since 2002. Founded in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) is a unique financing mechanism that relies on a dynamic partnership among governments, the private sector, and civil society to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB),…
On Sept. 7, Bernard Shaw passed due to pneumonia unrelated to COVID-19, according to a statement issued by his family. Shaw stood as a leading journalist covering some of the most impactful stories in history. A Chicago native and former U.S. Marine, Shaw’s career began at WNUS in Chicago in 1964. He would eventually work as a reporter at CBS and ABC News before taking over as the chief anchor at CNN when the company launched in 1980. Shaw provided coverage of major news events such as protests in China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Fisk University today announces the passing of Dr. Paul T. Kwami ’85. Dr. Kwami served as the Musical Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers® from 1994 to 2022. During Dr. Kwami’s twenty-eight-year tenure, the Fisk Jubilee Singers® received the highest musical honors including a GRAMMY award, a Dove Award, a National Medal of the Arts, and an induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Dr. Kwami consistently directed performances in the world’s most prestigious venues including at Carnegie Hall, The Ryman Auditorium, The Apollo Theater, and The White House. His musical genius was towering, and his legacy will…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–The New Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent Boosters are now available at the Meharry Vaccination Clinic. The Meharry Medical Group Vaccination Clinic is one of the first in the country to offer the new vaccines recently authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). For more information, call 615.327.6895. The boosters are now available at the Meharry Medical Group Vaccination Clinic, Tuesday – Friday from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. on the Meharry campus in the Alumni Hall Building. Walk-ins are welcome. For more information, call 615.327.6895. A complete list of eligibility requirements for single booster doses…
by Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand On her 21st birthday, 21 April 1947, when Britain’s Princess Elizabeth was accompanying her parents and her sister on a tour of South Africa, she spoke “to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live, whatever race they came from, and whatever language they speak”. She went on to declare that she would devote her whole life “to the service of our great imperial family.” By the time she died at Balmoral as Queen Elizabeth II, on 8 September 2022, the Empire had vanished. Britain’s process of quitting Empire had begun before she…
by Sean Lang, Anglia Ruskin University When the late historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biography, his colleagues expressed surprise that he should consider Queen Elizabeth II worthy of serious study at all. Yet Pimlott’s judgement proved sound and, if few academics have followed his lead, the political role of the monarchy has received thoughtful treatment in the creative arts. Stephen Frears’s 2006 film, The Queen, showed her dilemma after the death of Princess Diana; Peter Morgan’s stage play The Audience showed the monarch’s weekly meetings with her prime ministers. And she has been shown in a generally positive and…
By Aldon Thomas Stiles, California Black Media Nationwide, book banning is on the rise. It’s reached a 20-year high, according to the American Library Association and Unite Against Book Bans. Some of the books that have been banned include titles like “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, “I Am Enough” by Grace Byers and “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. “It is also worth noting that most challenged books feature LGBTQIA-related topics or are by BIPOC authors,” Kadie Seitz, a librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library who focuses on youth services, wrote on the organization’s blog. Troy Flint, Chief Information Officer at the California School Boards…
By Cynthia A. Bond Hopson, Ph.D. College presidents have a million things to keep them awake at night—pandemics, dormitories, or whatever they’re called now, the latest amenities, deferred maintenance, accreditation, staffing, payroll, inspiring young people, retention—the list goes on. For those who serve at our nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, (HBCU) the last thing they need is somebody trying to blow up their campus and harm their students. It was scary last year when the first calls came. At first it was one or two over here and a few over there. Nowadays, almost every week we read and…
(Tennessee State University News Service) Nashville, TN- With one push of a button it’s official, Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands submitted an application to the Grammy nomination committee for their album The Urban Hymnal in the Best Gospel Roots Album category. A win would make the TSU marching band the first collegiate band in history to receive the music industry’s highest honor for an entire album! Band members were on hand for the big submission as fellow band member Logyn Rylander, a senior commercial music major from Philadelphia, PA, did the honors of hitting the send button to submit…