By Wiley HenryMEMPHIS, TN – Several books have been written about Beale Street, but noneperhaps as concrete, definitive and thoroughly researched as “Beale Street Unforgotten:A Business and Landmarks Directory and Gallery of the 1960s Beale Street Area.”Published by GrantHouse Publishers (2021), authors George C. Grant and MarkStansbury gleaned from various sources a bevy of facts about the Memphis landmark –including “personalities and places” – and cobbled them together into a timeline thatcaptures the essence of the street’s glorious past.Grant said the idea for such a book derived from a discussion with the late Dr. MiriamDeCosta-Willis about five or six years…
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Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)—Victor M. Singletary, former pastor of First Baptist Church Capital Hill, Nashville opens his official New York Life agency in New York on September 21st. Richard A. Hoberman, Central Vice President of Retention and Recruitment with New York Life, will give remarks during the opening.
Mrs. Lena Pearl Marie Rhodes Farrell was born January 20, 1918 to Evalena and William Rhodes in the small town of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Her siblings were Vera Rhodes, Frank A. Rhodes, William Leon Rhodes and Raymond Chalmers Rhodes; Mrs. Farrell graduated from Clarke High School in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee in 1938. She enrolled at Tennessee Agriculture & Industrial college later to become Tennessee State University (TSU) in the fall of 1938. She majored in English, Elementary Education and graduated in 1942; Mrs. Farrell married her high school and college sweetheart, Dr. James Edward Farrell in 1940. Mrs. Farrell and her…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Greeneville minister Dr. Casey Nicholson has is running for governor of Tennessee. Nicholson is an ordained Cumberland Presbyterian minister who lives and works in his hometown of Greeneville. He was ordained in 2005, and served churches in Mississippi and East Tennessee before starting a counseling practice in 2017. Nicholson grew up in northeast Tennessee, but lived in Memphis for three years while attending seminary in his twenties. As a Ninth Generation Tennessean who drove back and forth from Memphis to the Tri-Cities often, Nicholson developed a love for all things Tennessee. He has preached in churches…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Expectant parents never imagine they’ll face tough decisions about treatments or surgeries for their unborn babies following a potentially devastating fetal diagnosis. But for thousands of families each year, this is a harsh reality. For more than 20 years, an experienced team of Vanderbilt experts in obstetrical and pediatric medical and surgical specialty care has helped expectant parents navigate the difficult decision-making process for babies at risk for or born with birth defects or abnormalities. A new 4,600-square-foot, state-of-the-art maternal fetal clinic space located at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt opened Sept. 13 to allow…
By Tom Wilemon President Joe Biden has appointed Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, to the National Cancer Advisory Board, where she will serve a six-year term and help guide federal initiatives that focus on cancer. The board advises the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the director of the National Cancer Institute on strategies to address the causes, diagnoses, prevention and treatment of cancers as well as continuing care and rehabilitation services for cancer patients and their families. Winkfield is the executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, professor of Radiation Oncology and Ingram Professor of Cancer…
CHICAGO (TN Tribune) — For the fourth consecutive year, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® will earmark on a progressive goal to raise $1 million in 24 hours for their national HBCU Impact Day initiative. Set for Monday, September 20, 2021, the annual fundraiser is a part of the sorority’s four-year, $10 million commitment to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) led by AKA International President and CEO Dr. Glenda Glover. The organization’s more than 300,000 college-educated members, corporate partners, and donors are challenged to make contributions to assist with the ongoing fiscal sustainability and operations of the more than 100 HBCUs around…