NASHVILLE, TN– India is staggering from COVID-19. Officials say 2,000 people are dying every day. Funeral pyres are burning bodies around the clock and the actual daily death toll could be as high as 10,000. New cases are averaging 400,000 per day. Adar Poonawalla, chief of the world’s largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India, now travels with armed guards. He had promised to supply the world’s poorest nations with COVID vaccines. But the company suffered production problems, raised its prices, and just recently lowered them again. The Indian government ordered Poonawalla to turn over all his vaccines to…
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Nashville, Tenn., (TN Tribune) – Renewal House, the only provider of a long-term substance use disorder treatment program for pregnant women, mothers, and their children in Middle Tennessee, welcomes community members to celebrate the organization’s 25th anniversary expansion with a beam raising ceremony on May 18. A 35,000 square foot facility with 34 apartments will double the capacity of services to women and their children. Renewal House serves more than 500 women and children a year through all of its programs combined. The nonprofit helps women gain the skills to remain sober, give their children nurturing care, improve their physical…
What follows are excerpts from a May 7 press conference. Senator Jeff Yarbro: “This is a legislature that changed the court system in the dead of night in a room where no one from the public or the press was allowed to be.” “More Tennesseans have lost loved ones in the last 12 months than in any year in our history. More Tennesseans lost their jobs or businesses in the last 12 months than any 12 months in our history. But you would never know from this legislature, which bounced around like a rudderless ship from one imaginary problem to…
NASHVILLE, TN – Republicans celebrated the recess of the 112th General Assembly last week. They passed much of Governor Lee’s political agenda. Some of that was mean-spirited, like cutting unemployment benefits in half; some was constitutionally deficient like Lee’s proposal to rob public education dollars to fund religious charter schools. Some of Lee’s agenda was just plain nuts. Take the permitless carry bill that the Governor signed into law last month. It goes into effect July 1. Lee tweeted that it shouldn’t be hard for law-abiding adults to exercise their Second Amendment rights. It’s not like the Volunteer State doesn’t…
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By Parker Owens The Morehouse College debate team has experienced much success over the years. It was a finalist in the 2015 United States Universities Debating Championship (USUDC), which is the national championship for the British Parliamentary style of debate. And its A-team of senior Daniel Edwards and sophomore Caleb Strickland won tournaments at Vanderbilt, the Social Justice Debates national championship and reached the finals of the Western States Debating Championships. But at the Penn USUDC 2021 in April, Edwards and Strickland were subjected to racist taunts from opposing teams and felt compelled to withdraw from the tournament. “It would…
By Ben Jealous Thanks to the voters who elected President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, we now have a Department of Justice that actually cares about justice. And I am not just talking about justice as an idea. I am talking about a Department of Justice that is willing to take on abusive policing and law enforcement agencies that are corrupted by racism. In his first month on the job, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland reversed a Trump-era policy that made it harder for the Justice Department to investigate police departments and hold them accountable for violating people’s…