LEBANON, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – Country music duo Brothers Osborne, who won their first GRAMMY Award last month, will hit the stage and entertain fans at Nashville Superspeedway prior to the Ally 400 NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, June 26, track officials announced today.Brothers Osborne (siblings John and TJ Osborne) will perform at approximately 2 p.m. from the pre-race concert stage located on pit road. Fans attending the race have the opportunity to enhance their experience by purchasing a “Track Access Pass” for $72 that provides stage-front access for the concert and driver introductions, views down pit road, and…
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Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–New Orleans comes to Nashville when Nicholas Payton, a New Orleans native and Grammy Award winning trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist, takes the stage with his all-star band. Payton has released over 20 recordings as a leader, pushing musical boundaries and showcasing a variety of contemporary and traditional styles, while displaying his ambidextrous ability to play both the trumpet and keyboard at the same time. Enjoy New Orleans-inspired eats and treats, and a special opening performance by the Nashville Youth Jazz Ensemble. About Nicholas Payton Born September 26, 1973, in New Orleans, LA; son of Walter and Maria…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats’ abortion legislation is “very simple,” as it would enshrine into federal law the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.Senate Democrats are moving quickly to try to codify the 50-year-old ruling after a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion suggesting the court is poised to overturn the case was leaked last week. But they don’t have enough votes, and Republicans are expected to block the bill in a test vote Wednesday.But if the Democratic legislation were to become law, it would do more than just preserve the status…
Brooklyn native Michael Williams Sr., 53, is a formerly incarcerated mental health activist who created his nonprofit Create Unlimited Power Purpose (C.U.P.P.) to aid other formerly incarcerated individuals and families struggling with their reentry into society.“What happens is that so many guys come home angry. Most of them come home on psych medications. There’s a lot of rage and hate and as soon as they come out here in society they encounter an issue, they don’t have the proper tools and know how to address the issue so it just blows up,” said Williams. “It’s like tick, tick, boom.”Williams was…
By Ben Jealous Things are about to get worse for millions of vulnerable people in our country. It looks like the far right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is getting ready to reverse Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old ruling that recognized a pregnant person’s right to have an abortion. Abortion is legal today, but pretty soon that will no longer be the case in most of the country. A leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling expected to be released in June indicates that the Court will rule that there is no constitutional protection for abortion. Bans will go…
By John E. Warren The current uproar over the leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s anticipated Decision on Abortion Rights is another example of the Republican Right Wing effort to eliminate democracy under the cover of the very Constitution which provides all our democratically protected rights. We have seen the attack on Voting Rights by the actions of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who refused to support not only the Voting Rights Act but also the John Lewis Act and the legislation coming out of the George Floyd murder. These are the same Republicans who we now know…
NASHVILLE – As part of the Tennessee Opportunity Pilot Initiative, seven public-private groups have been selected by the Families First Community Advisory Board to implement innovative strategies for moving Tennessee families with economic, social, and developmental vulnerabilities beyond their current circumstances and on to self-sufficiency. Each group will receive $25 million in federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds for their three-year pilots. The implementation grants for these pilot initiatives further the Tennessee Department of Human Services’ (TDHS) vision of fundamentally changing the way government assistance is delivered to families in need. The lead organizations for the seven collaborative groups include: Families…
By Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, TSDMemphis.com Tuesday morning, just before 9 a.m. when the phone lines are open, WDIA Program Director Bobby O’Jay fell unconscious during his show. He suffered a fatal massive heart attack. Only minutes after midnight, early Wednesday morning, O’Jay’s colleague, author, and award-winning photographer, Mark Stansbury, confirmed that the official cause of death had been ruled as a “massive heart attack.” Listeners on Tuesday morning, May 3, were expecting to hear O’Jay return after announcing that the phone lines were open. Instead, music continued to play during the time when O’Jay engages callers in discussions on current…
by Anita Gonzalez, Georgetown University “Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for Ebony. On TV and in film, white authorship of Black stories has long been a point of contention, whether it was David Simon writing about a Black neighborhood in Baltimore for his series “The Wire” or Tate Taylor writing and directing “The Help.” It was only a matter of time before this issue would beset the world of opera. Since “Emmett Till, A New American Opera” premiered at John Jay…
by Jamila Bey The first Monday in May has come to be known as the Met Gala Monday, and during and after the event, who wore what usually dominates social media and the news. Normally we might still be talking about what Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion, and Alicia Keys were wearing. But who could have foreseen that during the same moment the glitterati were posing in their finery on the Met Gala red carpet, a bombshell leak of the Supreme Court’s plans to strike down Roe v Wade would touch off a firestorm of protests, debate, and concern? Indeed, Monday night, Politico reported…