BY CHRISTOPHER CHENEY Nashville General Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, is committed to addressing social determinants of health and health equity. Social determinants of health such as food security and housing have a greater impact on health outcomes than clinical care. Health equity has become a hot topic in healthcare during the coronavirus pandemic, with the disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations such as African Americans highlighting health inequities in the United States. The national health inequities during the pandemic have played out in the Nashville area, says Joseph Webb, DSc, MS, chief executive officer of Nashville General Hospital. “We have a…
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On Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 10am Frist Art Museum will present a media sneak peak of American Art Deco, an exhibition to commemorate some of the finest national murals that celebrate the United States and all its diversity! Conceived as a family-friendly place full of curious people, the Frist Art Museum’s mission continues to present and originate high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. Thursday, October 7th10:00 a.m. The tour of American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918–1939will be led by Catherine Futter, interim director of curatorial affairsand senior curator, decorative arts, Brooklyn Museum. The tour of Mary…
Mobile, Ala.–Rev. Gregory Francis Lucey, S.J., 34th and 36th President of Spring Hill College and former “Mobilian of the Year” has passed away. He died peacefully in his sleep just before 8:00 a.m. this morning at St. Camillus Jesuit Community in Wauwatosa, WI. A funeral will be held in Milwaukee, WI. Spring Hill College is making plans for a memorial Mass and burial in Mobile, AL. E. Joseph Lee, PhD, President of Spring Hill College reflected “Fr. Lucey touched so many lives here at Spring Hill College and in our community. While his loss will be felt deeply for some…
(Detroit, MI ) – The Carr Center, the premiere Black arts educational resource and presenter based in the City of Detroit, has announced its 30th anniversary year of exciting events. Under the direction of Oliver Ragsdale, Jr., President and CEO; and Artistic Director, three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and educator Terri Lyne Carrington. The Carr Center’s schedule begins in October and includes its first LIVE concert event in more than a year. The season also marks the opening of the Center’s brand-new space, The Carr Center Performance Studio, located in the Detroit cultural center’s historic Park Shelton. The Carr Center’s…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune) – In 2020, for the first time ever the Nashville Jazz Workshop hosted their popular annual jazz concert, JAZZMANIA, virtually during the pandemic and showcase their love of jazz musicians and jazz music on the world stage. This year the annual fundraising concert goes virtual again and will be held on Saturday, October 23rd hosted by Grammy Award Winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum. Registration free to the public event and In the Spring of 2020 the COVID lockdown forced a suspension of in-person classes and performances for the jazz haven. The Nashville Jazz Workshop responded with online…
NEW YORK — “We bend, we don’t break. We sway!” sings the chorus in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” That is how much of the audience of about 4,000 in the Metropolitan Opera felt as they watched Monday night’ landmark performance, the first staged work in the house since March 2020 and the first by a Black composer in the long history of a company that launched in 1883. With many of the women wearing evening gowns and jewels and a large percentage of the men in black tie and even a few…
NASHVILLE, Tenn.– Inspired by the 150th Anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singers® and the opportunity to share the ensemble’s rich artistry and cultural significance beyond Nashville, the nonprofit Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) and Nashville Public Television (WNPT), Nashville’s independent nonprofit PBS station serving Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, are partnering to present Walk Together Children: The 150th Anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singers to PBS member stations across the country. “Walk Together Children” will premiere on PBS member stations nationwide in October in 19 states and 33 markets.Walk Together Children will premiere in Nashville on NPT at 9 p.m. CT on Oct. 3 in…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 30, 2021 – The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) today announced the appointment of three executives to senior leadership roles. Hannibal L. Brumskine II will serve as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Gail Coles Johnson will serve as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Penelope Thornton Talley, Esq. will serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Experience Officer (CXO). The ELC is the preeminent global membership organization for Black current and former CEOs, senior executives and board members of Fortune 1000 and equivalent companies, top-tier entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. The organization…
WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-05) introduced a bill to rename the United States Post Office located at 2245 Rosa L Parks Blvd. in Nashville to honor the late State Senator Thelma Harper. Cooper was joined by the entire Tennessee delegation – Rep. Diana Harshbarger (TN-01), Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-02), Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Rep. Scott DesJarlais (TN-04), Rep. John Rose (TN-06), Rep. Mark Green (TN-07), Rep. David Kustoff (TN-08), and Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09) – in co-sponsorship of this bill. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Sen. Bill Hagerty also support the bill. Senator Harper was a much beloved public…
There is an ugly truth why some segments of white American society are so fierce in their defense of creationism. Simply put, that reason is white supremacy. But without a critical examination of creationism within the context of those religious cultures that support and espouse it, one can easily overlook the racism that is at its core and the tribalistic ethos that breathed it into life. If we peer through the mists of time to the earliest organized societies, we find that tribalism steered religious iconography for millennia. Seemingly alone and frightened in a world they did not understand, ancient…