Dear Editors, If we’re lucky enough to be on good terms and close enough to visit, the holidays mean family time. These folks are in our lives, period. We didn’t choose them and they’re not going anywhere. So, if you have relatives who spout opinions but don’t know the difference between facts and propaganda, here’s a suggestion. Avoid politics. That’s right. Don’t talk politics, talk policy. Ignore opinion, elevate facts, pass the gravy. This is especially important when it comes to how we handle firearms in TN and in our country. Three quick examples. When a cousin declares, “Bad guys…
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Nashville, TN (Main Street Nashville)–Faith leaders, public officials, homeless advocates and service providers will join with the homeless community to remember and honor the people who have died on Nashville’s streets this year. The 2021 Annual Homeless Memorial will take place 8:30-9:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11. There will be speakers, music, poetry, the reading of the names and a time for sharing. It will close with a procession to the courthouse, where flags will be placed in the ground with the names of each person who died this year. Every year in Nashville, dozens of people experiencing homelessness die on…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune)- On December 20, 2021, judicial candidates running for office will be able to pick up petitions to get on the Democratic primary ballot for the May 3, 2022. Robin Kimbrough Hayes is seeking to become the next General Sessions Court Judge, Division V. To qualify for the May 3, 2022 ballot, candidates are required to get a minimum of twenty-five signatures from registered voters in Davidson County. Kimbrough Hayes plans to get her signatures with a 35-District Petition Signing Tour. She will make various stops at landmarks and specialty shops in all of the thirty-five council…
By Thomas L. Knapp “White supremacists embraced cryptocurrency early in its development, ” Michael Edison Hayden and Megan Squire report at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, “and in some cases produced million-dollar profits through the technology, reshaping the racist right in radical ways.” I have no doubt the claim is true. What’s also true is a note several paragraphs into the piece: “Nothing is inherently criminal or extreme about it, and most of its users have no connections to the extreme far right. ” You’re not going to hear much about that angle on the story in mainstream…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent WASHINGTON, DC — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), which represents the Black Press of America, has embarked on a national series featuring NBA owners on the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Because of the Phoenix Suns and owner Robert Sarver’s significant outreach to the African American community, which occurred long before the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement, the NNPA began the series with Sarver. Sarver first discovered his interest in basketball as a teenager. His father, Jack Sarver, a native of Flint, MI, enjoyed a friendship with then-University of…