NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) — The ouster of Tennessee’s top vaccination official will put more lives at risk, Democratic senators say, as new cases of Covid-19 are ticking up in the state. On Monday, Gov. Bill Lee’s administration fired Dr. Michelle Fiscus, the medical director for vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization programs at the Tennessee Department of Health. The administration’s termination letter provides no explanation or cause for firing her. But in recent weeks, anti-vaccine lawmakers from the controlling party targeted Fiscus for sending a letter to healthcare providers outlining the circumstances in which they could provide a Covid-19 vaccine…
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On Thursday, July 15th 2021 from 5:00pm-7:00pm, the Davidson County Trustee’s office will host its first “Seniors and Technology” event at the Howard Office Building. The Tribune noted the training sessions in a recent article about tax relief for seniors, disabled people, and the poor. (See Tax Relief) Trustee Erica Gilmore along with other staff have noticed seniors are having trouble applying online to the state property tax relief program. From these observations Gilmore invites seniors in the Davidson County area who (1) take interest in the tax relief program or (2) seniors who would like more insight with technology…
NASHVILLE, TN– Four days in a row last week new cases of COVID-19 topped 20,000 in the U.S. The last time that happened was in May 2021 except this time it’s the Delta variant that is now the most common form of the disease in the U.S., India, and in the U.K. The Delta variant is a mutation of the original COVID-19 virus, aka Alpha, but it spreads 225% faster than the original. In a study published last week, Chinese researchers reported that on average people infected with the Delta variant carry 1000 times more copies of the virus inside…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–On July 17, 2021, the City of Nashville will formally dedicate Rep. John Lewis Way, the former Fifth Avenue, from Jefferson Street in Germantown to Oak Street on Rutledge Hill at the historic Nashville City Cemetery. The late congressman and civil rights pioneer began his activist journey as a student in Nashville, serving as a leader in the momentous lunch counter sit-ins that lead to Nashville becoming the first Southern city to begin the desegregation of public places. While a student, Lewis served as one of the 13 original “Freedom Riders” before later embarking on a political…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ A statue of journalist, teacher and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be unveiled as part of a week’s worth of events honoring the former resident of Memphis, Tennessee. The life-size bronze statue of Wells, who lived in Memphis for 10 years in the late 1800s, is being erected at a plaza in downtown Memphis. The unveiling is scheduled on July 16, culminating a week-long celebration of Wells’ life and legacy that also will include a community prayer service, a parade and a visit to a prominent lynching site in Memphis. Wells was a Black…
NASHVILLE, TN – The Metro Action Commission, PATHE Activists, at least two General Sessions Court judges, and one Metro Council member are working hard to get rental assistance to as many people as they can before July 31. At the stroke of midnight on July 31, the eviction moratorium ends; it has been extended three times; it is unlikely it will be extended again. Once it expires, several hundred eviction cases on file since last February will be heard in General Sessions Court. Added to them will be hundreds of new cases, perhaps thousands. (See Eviction) In March 2021 General Sessions…
by Tamzin A. Rosenwasser, M.D. Just as Karl Marx interpreted all of human history as a fight between the “proletariat” (oppressed) and the “capitalists” (oppressors) using a method I can only call “Illogical Abstractionism,” so also do the “critical race theorists” use a rigid abstraction to divide all of mankind into one of two groups. Karl Marx had no understanding of history or the time course in human affairs. He never set foot in the situations he wrote about with such certainty. Stupid. The “revolt of the proletariat” never happened, because the people whose strengths did not include invention of…
Planning study focuses on 338 acres of the East Bank, public input needed NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – On Wednesday, July 14 and Thursday, July 15, Nashvillians will have the opportunity to learn more about the Imagine East Bank Study and provide feedback on the project’s initial discoveries and future direction. Team members from Metro Planning and architecture firm Perkins Eastman will share opportunities and challenges presented by the East Bank, as well as some preliminary planning and design ideas. Meetings will be hosted at Cumberland River Compact, on the Third Floor of The Bridge Building on Wednesday, July 14 from…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – The R.H. Boyd Company, a 501(c)3 organization based in Nashville, Tennessee, announced the launch of a $1.1 million nationwide campaign to restore and repair the Boyd House, a historical home in Nashville erected in the 1930s. Community partners are invited to participate in a historic opportunity to renovate the Boyd House, located on the campus of Fisk University. The home was originally owned by Dr. Henry Allen Boyd (1876-1959) and Georgia Bradford Boyd (1884–1952). Dr. Boyd was the second-generation leader of the National Baptist Publishing Board (NBPB), now known as the R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation,…
NASHVILLE (TN Tribune) –The Nashville chapter of the Blacks in Technology Foundation (BIT-Nashville) announces today Amazon as the title sponsor of BIT-Nashville for the next year. BIT is a global non-profit with over 14,000 members in seven countries around the world. The goal of the organization is to increase the number of Black people in tech, while facilitating the advancement of those already in the industry. BIT membership is free and many training programs are free or subsidized by corporate sponsors, including Disney, Citi – and now for the Nashville chapter – Amazon. Local tech company Rachel + Winfree Consulting…