HOUSTON, TX — Artists around the world, 18 years or older and of Puerto Rican descent, were invited to submit 2D or 3D video media art as part of a fundraising effort in support of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade (N.P.R.D.P.) Scholarship Fund. Mowsse, one of the first independent digital marketplaces for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), selected the N.P.R.D.P Scholarship Fund as its first philanthropic investment. This creative collaboration will result in an NFT collection featuring 35 pieces of art inspired by iconic symbols of Puerto Rican culture, amplification of Puerto Rican artists, and help in raising…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–On Friday, June 3, Mayor John Cooper and the Metro Public Health Department held a special signing ceremony of the Paris Declaration 4.0 that designates Nashville as a ‘Fast-Track City’ and joins dozens of cities across the world in an international movement to combat the HIV/AIDS virus. “By joining the Fast-Track Cities Initiative, Nashville can do its part on the global stage to help curb rates of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths,” said Mayor Cooper. “We continue to see disproportionate rates of new cases along racial and gender lines, with rises in new cases among women, youth and people of…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–May 26, 2022 marked the completion of the three-week Maymester Music Accelerator Program at TSU. This program ended with guest lecturers, super producer Dallas Austin and recording artist Sir The Baptist, they both received honorary doctorates in music from TSU on May 6. The last class was held at the National Museum of African American Music and to their surprise, each student received a gold plaque from the RIAA. The Music Accelerator Program at Tennessee State University is a program in partnership with Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC), Nashville Music Equality, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Wasserman Music, and YouTube Music.…
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – When a former client of leading Black real estate broker Donnell Williams was about to get his house refinanced in Wharton, New Jersey, Williams quoted him as asking, “‘Should I have my White friend come over and open up the door for the appraiser?’” Williams, a realtor for 30 years and broker for 21 years, is well aware that his former client’s perception of racism within the real estate industry is indeed a reality. Current media stories are full of reports of people who have had to conceal their racial identities – going as far…
NEW YORK — People across the nation are taking a stance against gun violence. It’s National Gun Violence Awareness Day and the start of Wear Orange Weekend. The annual event comes as a series of fatal shootings have rocked the nation including earlier this week at a hospital, last week at a school and last month at a supermarket. At a rally in Summit, New Jersey, some 200 people were expected. This year, speakers don’t just want to raise awareness – they’re passionate about seeing action. Moms were on Madison Avenue and 64th Street wearing orange and shouting “Save kids, not guns.” …
One of the corpse flower plants at Austin Peay State University appears ready to unfurl into one of the world’s rarest treasures – a flowering structure up to 8 feet tall that emits the odor of rotting meat. “We’re used to flowers with sweet smells that attract bees and butterflies,” said Austin Peay biology professor Dr. Carol Baskauf. “The nickname for this plant is ‘corpse flower’ because it smells like rotting, dead meat. It stinks terribly.” No sweet smells. No bees and butterflies. As Austin Peay’s 8-year-old plant – nicknamed Zeus – emerges from its most recent dormancy, signs indicate that it…
Hurricane season has just begun in Louisiana. Activists in several states are “organizing resilience” to prepare their communities and they are pushing officials to fix a disaster relief system which many consider broken. “The one thing that has actually worked in the aftermath of disaster is the community coming together to help each other,” said Ashley K. Shelton, the Founder, President, and CEO of the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice. Shelton does civic engagement work with community organizations and politicians. She is the former Vice President of Programs at the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. “For us it’s really important…
STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe step of banishing a nonprofit organization from the tribe’s land. The Lakota Language Consortium had promised to preserve the tribe’s native language and had spent years gathering recordings of elders, including Taken Alive’s grandmother, to create a new, standardized Lakota dictionary and textbooks. But when Taken Alive, 35, asked for copies, he was shocked to learn that the consortium, run by a white man, had…
American Baptist College featured a high quality event with outstanding students earning their degrees. There were two student addresses. Mikea Braden delivered the first speaker’s address, followed by Alexander Cowan. Mikea talked about leadership and summed it up by saying, “Don’t mess with ABC.” Alexander told a personal story of how much the graduation meant to him. Both his father and grandfather attended American Baptist College. “I continue this historic legacy,” he proudly stated. A stirring message was delivered by Rev. Dr. Christopher Davis, as the keynote speaker. He shared with the students how important it is to do what…
Memphis, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – Physicians at the Hamilton Eye Institute (HEI) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will donate their services to restore sight to approximately two dozen individuals during the fifth-annual Ivan Marais Cataract-A-Thon Saturday, June 4. The all-day outreach, beginning at roughly 8 a.m. at HEI, offers free cataract surgeries to individuals who otherwise could not afford the procedure. Since the first Cataract-A-Thon in 2017, more than 130 individuals have had their sight restored during the event. Hamilton Eye Institute is located at 930 Madison Ave., on UTHSC’s Memphis campus. This year, up to 24 individuals…