Second Annual ROAD Forward Grants Awarded to Nearly 700Local Nonprofits Across U.S., Canada and Europe ST. LOUIS – Enterprise Holdings, through the Enterprise Holdings Foundation, is awarding its ROAD Forward grants for the second consecutive year to nearly 700 local nonprofit organizations. The grants, totaling more than $7 million in 2022, will be distributed across the organization’s operating groups in the United States, Canada and Europe as part of a broader five-year, $55 million ROAD Forward commitment to advance social and racial equity. Today’s announcement advances Enterprise’s ROAD Forward program, launched in 2020, to allocate $35 million over five years to its 70-plus global operating…
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CDC has endorsed the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine be used as another primary series option for adults ages 18 years and older. Novavax is a protein subunit vaccine. These vaccines package harmless proteins of the COVID-19 virus alongside another ingredient called an adjuvant that helps the immune system respond to the virus in the future. Vaccines using protein subunits have been used for more than 30 years in the United States, beginning with the first licensed hepatitis B vaccine. Other protein subunit vaccines used in the United States today include those to protect…
WASHINGTON – All kids deserve a happy, healthy summer, but as communities continue to struggle with the effects of the pandemic, millions of children are at risk of hunger this summer. No Kid Hungry, a national campaign to end childhood hunger, is launching an awareness campaign to help families find free meals for their kids and teens this summer through a bilingual text service. Parents, grandparents and caregivers can simply text “FOOD” or “COMIDA” to 304-304 to find sites serving free meals in their neighborhood. Chef Lorena Garcia, Ayesha Curry and Big Freedia are joining the effort as campaign ambassadors.…
By Ashley White NASHVILLE, TN — The Nashville Business Journal has named Don Hardin a winner of its lifetime achievement award for Commercial Real Estate. Growing up in the Trinity Hills community, Don Hardin remembers Nashville as a city that was pretty flat; all about country music but on the verge of becoming something different. And different it has been since then and since Hardin graduated from Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering. Especially the city’s landscape, and you have Hardin’s firm, the Don Hardin Group to thank for that. He and his team have been…
NASHVILLE, TN — Ed Hardy, respected music industry executive and influential leader, passed away on July 31, 2022. He was 73. Born in October 1948 in Cleveland, OH, to Edward B. and Rita M. Hardy, Ed Hardy was a beloved husband, father, leader and mentor. He graduated from Kent State University in 1971 where he studied communications and journalism. A dedicated contributor to the growth and expansion of the music industry, Hardy began his career working at local radio stations throughout Ohio. He went on to spend much of the mid-1990s building Deschutes River Broadcasting from a single AM/FM radio…
NASHVILLE, TN — Meharry Medical College, one of the nation’s oldest and largest historically Black academic health science centers, announced today that Michelle Nichols, M.D., M.S., MBA, FAAFP, has been named as senior vice president of clinical affairs. Nichols will lead Meharry’s clinical enterprise, collaborating with the College’s clinicians and overseeing its Graduate Medical Education programs. She will spearhead efforts to advance health equity and reduce disparities among those in underserved communities. “We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Nichols to the Meharry family,” said James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D., president and CEO of Meharry Medical College. “In addition to her extensive…
WASHINGTON, DC — The photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines, a historic treasure documenting the Black experience for most of the 20th century, are bound for the Smithsonian Institution. The deal, assuring the archives will be digitized and made available to the public, was announced by a consortium of foundations that have safeguarded the material. The group bought the archives for $30 million during a bankruptcy auction in 2019. Most of the images will move to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. The J. Paul Getty Trust has committed another $30 million to continue digitizing the…
By Kendall Ashman LEBANON, TN (WKRN) — A family-owned business is being forced out of the Lebanon Outlet Mall after a new management company terminated its lease early. “To immediately terminate us like we are scum. It’s disrespectful and it’s hurtful what are supposed to do in the interim?” Tamikia White of Seafood Sacs asked. The owners of Seafood Sacs said their lease was up in February of next year. However, last week they were told out of the blue it was being terminated early and they have to be out by August 26. “This is very disrespectful and dehumanizing…
By Peter White On July 22, Governor Bill Lee announced that Jennifer Nichols, Commissioner of Children’s Services (DCS), is stepping down. Allegations of misconduct against the now-former commissioner include ballooning budgets, mismanagement, and bad outcomes for Tennessee’s neediest children as a result. Every year since 2014, DCS has taken more kids from their families than the previous year. It runs a statewide network of foster homes, half of them contract providers, and DCS has a staggering 600 caseworker openings. The new commissioner, Margie Quin, is currently the Executive Director of End Slavery Tennessee. The group fights sex trafficking of children.…
By Ken Belson The federal judge overseeing the NFL concussion settlement formally removed the use of a race-based method to evaluate dementia tests of Black former players, paving the way for thousands of players to file claims worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars. The order issued by United States District Judge Anita B. Brody, who has overseen the case since it began in 2012, ends a contentious, 18-month fight that began after two former players sued the NFL for discrimination. They asserted the league used race-based scoring methods that had the effect of denying benefits to Black players in…