NASHVILLE, TENN. (TN Tribune) — The Belcourt Theatre takes part in the ninth annual National Evening of Science on Screen on Tuesday, March 22 at 8 p.m. The evening includes a screening of the film SOYLENT GREEN, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, an ecological dystopian thriller from 1973 that takes place in 2022, set in an overpopulated and starving New York City. After the film, there will be a discussion on “The Fate of Food in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World” with Amanda Little, a professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University, as well as a…
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BAINES, GWENDOLYN LOUISE native of Nashville was an author, lecturer, and syndicated advice columnist. However, her most important role was mother. Gwendolyn departed from her loving family on March 14, 2022, in Raleigh, North Carolina at age 78. Gwendolyn was born in Nashville, TN on August 7, 1943. She was preceded in death by her parents (Geneva and Rev. John C. Hunt, Sr.), and four siblings. Gwendolyn is survived by her devoted daughter, Rosita Baines Lee, her loving nephew Bobby (Felicia) Hunt, and their children Jordan and Hailey of California. She is also survived by her sister, Mary (Douglas) Cromwell,…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) The National Newspaper Publishers Association is working with Pfizer and the Voices for the Heart program to help raise awareness of a serious and often overlooked cause of heart failure among Black/African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans called hereditary transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). Through our series of local informational events, Voices for the Heart aims to educatecommunities about the signs and symptoms of hereditary ATTR-CM and provideinformation that encourages community members who have heart failure andsymptoms of hereditary ATTR-CM to talk to their doctor. A Voices for the Heart virtual event will be held in Nashville on Saturday,March…
The revelation this week that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol has renewed questions about Clarence Thomas’s impartiality. Critics say the new detail is just the latest example of Ginni Thomas’s political activity posing an ethically troubling overlap with her husband’s judicial position. “Virginia Thomas should be able to back whatever causes motivate her. The problem is that Justice Thomas continues to participate in cases related to her political activities,” said Steven Lubet, a professor of legal ethics at Northwestern University…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – During the Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, APSU President Mike Licari announced the creation of the APSU Military Hall of Fame, to be housed within the William E. and Sadako S. Newton Military Family Resource Center. The board also approved naming a portion of campus after Joe and Cathi Maynard. Earlier this year, the Maynards pledged to make a historic $15 million donation to the Austin Peay athletics department. Their gift represents the largest single gift in the history of the University. To honor that family’s generosity, the board voted unanimously to…
By Niels Reimers A DC-based advocacy group has just petitioned the government to seize the patent covering the prostate cancer drug Xtandi so generic manufacturers can copy the medication. The group behind this petition has issued similar calls in the past. But both Democratic and Republican administrations have rejected such petitions on the grounds that they misconstrue current law, as the current administration should likewise recognize. The government contributed approximately $500,000 to research at UCLA that served as the foundation for Xtandi. The university’s findings were eventually licensed by Astellas — which, after more than $1.4 billion of investments and…
By Oscar H. Blayton Almost everyone of a certain age has memories of watching “Roots,” the television adaption of Alex Haley’s epic novel that first aired in the 1970s. One of the most painful scenes in this drama is when the white plantation overseer demands that the enslaved Kunta Kinte accept the slave-name “Toby,” and has him whipped to the point of near death until he does. The erasure of the identity of the people of Africa and its diaspora is a major contributing factor to the asymmetrical relationship between people of color and the ethnic European benefactors of global…
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful provides a fresh perspective on the artist’s long, dynamic life (1891–1978) and multifaceted career that was defined by constant creativity. This major retrospective traces her journey from semirural Georgia to Washington, DC, to becoming the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York when she was eighty in 1972. On view will be an unprecedented number of Thomas’s joyful and colorful abstract paintings—the titles and forms of which express her interest in flora and fauna, music, space travel, and spirituality. In addition to her signature…
“Cat Packer should have stepped down as the Director of the Department of Cannabis Regulation a long time ago. Cat stepping down is not going to fix all of the problems. Everybody else in that department needs to go as well. They should revamp the whole department because everybody participated in the destruction and the demise of LA’s cannabis market. LA should have been the number one cannabis market in the world. LA looks like the biggest joke in the world because of everyone in that department — Michelle, Rocky, and Jason Killeen.“Cat’s exit doesn’t come as a surprise to…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–On March 10, the fictional FiftyForward Madison Station train took its longest journey yet, to Hawaii. Emceed by Lelan Statom, NewsChannel 5 meteorologist and co-host of Talk of the Town, guests were entertained by the Ukedelics during the cocktail hour and got a taste of island life as they supported and learned about the work FiftyForward does to support older adults in the community. A special treat at this year’s event came from individuals in the FiftyForward Madison Station member community. Two FiftyForward Madison Station center members (Alfred St. Aubin and Mary Taylor) surprised everyone by wearing…