Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–In December 2020, the University of Memphis, Meharry Medical College and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare announced a collaboration to increase the number of Black primary care doctors across the state and increase research collaborations among the institutions. In accordance with this effort, the University of Memphis and Meharry Medical College created the Program to Enhance Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research (PECIR). The purpose of PECIR is to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary, team-based research that involves investigators from Meharry Medical College and the University of Memphis. The inaugural PECIR call for applications was released in spring 2021 with a $50,000…
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NASHVILLE, TN – Vaccine hesitancy has been in the headlines for months. News reports generally frame the issue as obstinate people who are misinformed. A recent study by Tufts University researchers found Whites are more likely to have been vaccinated than Blacks despite similar levels of vaccine hesitancy. External factors, not attitudes, explain the difference. Barriers to access or technology or living alone can account for much of the differences in vaccination rates, not hesitancy by any particular ethnic group. Older people are more likely to be vaccinated and less likely to be hesitant. Eighty-two percent of people 75 and…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The National Museum of African American Music adds to an all-star lineup for its Black Music Month events with Eric Roberson, Anthony Hamilton, Vince Gill, Bobby Brown, Bevy Smith and Misa Hylton, with more to come. Nissan joins Amazon as presenting sponsor for the weekend, with Hallmark Mahogany, AARP, HCA and Sony signing on as new sponsors. New Talent For the Celebration of Legends Benefit Concert that will kick off the museum’s events on June 17 and be streamed online via YouTube and BlackMusicMonth.com, NMAAM has named artists who will perform or pay tribute to musical greats…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ Workers have removed the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Tennessee park, officials said Friday, marking another step in the process of moving their bodies out of Memphis and to a museum hundreds of miles away. Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Lee Millar said the remains of the former slave trader and his wife were removed Monday and are being held in an undisclosed location until they can be transported later to the National Confederate Museum at Elm Springs in Columbia. Owned by the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Race-related tensions within the Southern Baptist Convention are high heading into a national meeting next week. The election of a new SBC president and debate over the concept of systemic racism may prove pivotal for some Black pastors as they decide whether to stay in the denomination or leave. It could be a watershed moment for America’s largest Protestant denomination. The SBC was founded before the Civil War as a defender of slavery, and only in 1995 did it formally apologize for that legacy _ yet since 2000 its Black membership has been increasing while white…
By PETER SMITH and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ The president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee said Friday it is contracting an outside firm to investigate its actions amid accusations that top denominational leaders mishandled sex abuses cases, despite calls from some critics for a more independent probe. Ronnie Floyd announced the hiring of international consulting company Guidepost Solutions to review the allegations made by Russell Moore, who resigned last month as president of the denomination’s influential Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. In letters to SBC officials that became public, Moore accused Floyd and Mike…
(Nashville, TN) – I’Ashea L. Myles announces that she has filed her Treasurer papers to run for Chancery Court Judge in Metro Nashville. Myles is the first to officially step in the race since the announcement by Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle that she will retire at the end of her term. The race will take place in May of 2022. Myles is an attorney at Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC in Nashville and practices in Chancery courts across the state of Tennessee focusing on construction, business and real estate litigation. During law school, Myles clerked for Court of Appeals Judge Richard…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune)—Memphis attorneys AC and Ruby Wharton will be honored next week with the presentation of the TBA YLD Fellows William M. Leech Jr. Public Service Award. “AC and Ruby Wharton are the embodiment of excellence in service to the profession, the legal system and our community,” Fellows President and Memphis attorney Danny Van Horn says of the pair. “Each has contributed in their own way to the life of our profession, our community and the people we serve. They are the embodiment of 1+1 can equal 3.” AC Wharton built a distinguished career in public service and…
By Brandon Puttbrese Press Secretary Tennessee Senate Democratic Caucus NASHVILLE,TN (TN Tribune) — Gov. Bill Lee continues to mislead Tennesseans on the number of current job openings and the quality of those positions — peddling anecdotes rather than evidence — in defense of his decision to end federal unemployment enhancements for people who lost a job through no fault of their own. The CARES Act, passed by Congress in 2020, provided $300 a week to Americans who were laid off or lost work throughout the pandemic, but, in May, Gov. Lee announced he is ending Tennessee’s involvement with the federal…