By Joel White For many Americans, the calamitously slow vaccine roll-out in countries like Germany, France, and Italy comes as a surprise. After all, in the early days of the pandemic, Europe’s response to the crisis seemed highly competent, especially compared to the United States. But the sluggish vaccination campaign in these nations is actually quite predictable. For years, European policymakers have imposed strict price controls on new pharmaceuticals — and those price caps have delayed patients’ access to cutting-edge medicines. The same story is now playing out with Covid-19 vaccines. Amazingly, Congress is now seeking to emulate Europe’s failed…
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Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Drive around the Fisk University campus this month and your eye might land on something unexpected — the historic Little Theatre has been draped in dusty fabric made from hundreds of worn-out jute and burlap sacks. The patchwork material completely covers the building, like it’s a house being fumigated, or maybe a wrapped art installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In reality, it’s a little like both of those things — and it’s even more interesting that it looks. “Leaves of Grass, 2012-2021. 2021,” Ibrahim Mahama (detail)PHOTO: DANIEL MEIGS “Leaves of Grass” is the product of a collaboration…
Memphis, TN, (TN Tribune)― MVP3 Entertainment Group, LLC, an entity formed in Memphis that focuses on purpose-driven films, music and television productions, while giving back to nonprofits, recently partnered with ATWEC Technologies, Inc., (ATWT on the OTC Markets) to start an entertainment mecca in the mid-south. ATWEC Technologies sells child safety solutions to schools and day care centers worldwide. ATWEC and MVP3 partnered to create MVP3 Studios & Partners, LLC, the umbrella for a multi-use center that will have six production sound stages, music recording studios, television network, retail, museum, art gallery, restaurants, office space rental, indoor sports complex and family…
By Rosetta Miller-Perry There aren’t many members of the Republican Party these days who have the courage to stand up and tell the truth. The party is under the control of an incompetent demagogue who lies almost every time he opens his mouth, and was the worse President this nation has had since at minimum Herbert Hoover, if not James Buchanan. Because his flunkies were in total charge of the government during his four years, nothing could be done about it, that is the only reason Trump survived two impeachments. But despite his miserable time in office that culminated in a Jan.…
Liz Cheney, a Republican, represents Wyoming’s at-large congressional district in the U.S. House. In public statements again this week, former president Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. His message: I am still the rightful president, and President Biden is illegitimate. Trump repeats these words now with full knowledge that exactly this type of language provoked violence on Jan. 6. And, as the Justice Department and multiple federal judges have suggested, there is good reason to believe that Trump’s language can provoke violence again. Trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure…
The Tennessee Republican Party has become the party of the Big Lies. First, there was the big lie that the 2020 Presidential election was fraught with fraud and was stolen from the Republican nominee. Practically every elected Republican in the state perpetuated this lie; some refusing to this date to acknowledge that President Biden won the election. This notwithstanding the fact that officials appointed by former President Trump to monitor the election have stated the presidential election was the most secure election in the history of presidential elections. In addition to perpetuating “The Big Lie,” Republican leaders in the state…
By greenecodemocratcom Over one hundred vehicles, including the Black Lives Matter bus participated in Saturday’s Selma-to-Montgomery ‘Votercade’ in support of passage of HR1/S1 The We the People Act and HR4 the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The Alabama Votercade was one of over 100 activities across America sponsored by a national coalition of voting rights and anti-voter suppression organizations headed by the Transformative Justice Coalition. All of the day’s activities were focused on raising awareness of the need to pass national legislation to restore the pre-clearance provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, stripped from the legislation by the 2013…
You Look Like… By Gwendolyn Henderson Each day, I recognize in subtle ways how much I am like her. The recognition comes upon me in the least expected moments. My husband would look at her and say, “I am looking at the future face of my wife, I had better accept it.” I would scoff at the idea of course…thinking but not saying, “I resemble her but not so much that he is looking into my future face.” I am still not sure that is the case, but I “look like her.” She left her stamp on me in so many ways. Just…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —Donor fatigue? Not on Middle Tennessee’s watch. Amid 14 months that have included worldwide pandemic and economic hardship, disastrous tornadoes and floods, and a downtown Nashville bombing on Christmas morning, generosity continues to help define the city and region. The Big Payback’s eighth annual 24-hour online giving event ended Thursday night by raising more than $4.2 million — $4,265,674 — in 32,941 donations to participating area nonprofit organizations, schools and religious institutions. The preliminary total includes funds raised and prize totals. In its history, The Big Payback has helped more than 1,000 area nonprofits by raising more than…