Most Davidson County voters plan to get vaccinated for COVID-19, agree local race relations is a large problem Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Davidson County voters have slightly less confidence in their elected officials and core institutions as compared with last year, including the Metro Police Department and Nashville public schools, according to the latest Vanderbilt Poll-Nashville. A majority of Nashvillians, however—59 percent—still think things in Nashville are “generally headed in the right direction.” That is down from 63 percent last year. Concurrently, 40 percent of poll respondents feel that things in the Nashville area are “off on the wrong track”; that…
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NEW YORK — Season 13 of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange continues this April with scholar-activist Yaba Blay’s Professional Black Girl, which showcases the everyday, round-the-way excellence, talent and #BlackGirlMagic of today’s Black women and girls. This edition of Professional Black Girl profiles six extraordinary New Orleans residents, each of whom spotlights a different part of the wonder of the Big Easy. Professional Black Girl premieres on AfroPoP on Monday, April 19, at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT) on WORLD Channel and worldchannel.org. AfroPoP is presented and executive produced by Black Public Media (BPM) and WORLD Channel and co-presented by American Public Television (APT). A celebrated online movement and video series, Blay’s Professional Black Girl revels in the joys and lives of…
Philadelphia, PA – The Africa Channel (TAC), the longest running Independent, minority owned, media company focused on presenting pan-African content to global audiences, announced today that its programming, which includes scripted and unscripted series, films, documentaries, news and information programs, is now available to millions more Xfinity TV customers, in 60 new markets on Channel 1629, and also via the Xfinity Stream app. Xfinity customers with X1 can also say “The Africa Channel” into their Xfinity Voice Remote to access the channel. Sample content from The Africa Channel will also be featured, at no additional cost, on the newly-launched Black Experience…
NASHVILLE, TN — The Board of Directors of the Tennessee Business Roundtable is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Keith Norman of Baptist Memorial Health Care, Memphis, as the organization’s new Regional Vice President for West Tennessee, effective immediately for the remainder of the 2020-2021 term. Elected on January 29 by the Roundtable Board, Dr. Norman serves as Vice President of Government Affairs at Memphis-based Baptist, which is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems. Dr. Norman’s election fills the unexpired portion of the Regional Vice President term vacated at the end of 2020 by Luis Orbegoso,…
LOS ANGELES, CA — Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., executive publisher and chairman of the Los Angeles Sentinel, has been appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to the California Parks and Recreation Commission. Along with being the executive publisher and chairman of Bakewell Media, which owns the Los Angeles Sentinel and the Los Angeles Watts Times, Bakewell is the founder/creator of the Taste of Soul Family Festival, held annually on historic Crenshaw Boulevard in the heart of the Los Angeles African American community. Since its founding in 2005, Taste of Soul has brought millions of people and thousands of local businesses…
NASHVILLE, TN — The 14th annual Nashville Chapter Les Gemmes Literary Luncheon, Saturday, May, 22 at 11 a.m, CDT, by Zoom. Dr. Raymond Winbush is a research professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md. Winbush is the Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Oakwood College in Alabama and received a fellowship to attend the University of Chicago, where he earned both his master’s degree and Ph.D. in psychology. He has taught at Oakwood College, Alabama A&M, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University. He is the recipient…
By Patrick J. Kennedy On Donald Trump’s last full day in office, his administration announced a policy change that would make it easier for insurers to deny medicine to vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries. Those most affected will include people with mental health disorders. Right now, the Biden administration has two opportunities to make sure patients don’t lose their needed medicines. The first involves reversing Trump’s last-minute Medicare policy change. The second requires implementing an important Trump-era measure that has been delayed. The Trump administration’s proposal affects Medicare Part D, which allows private insurance companies to sell prescription drug plans to beneficiaries.…
By Evelyn Hockstein The Rotunda, with its tall columns and domed roof, is the centerpiece of the University of Virginia’s idyllic campus, a building designed by Thomas Jefferson, who modeled it after the Pantheon in Rome, as he sought to build a school that embraced rigorous intellectualism and egalitarianism. But in a grotesque contradiction, enslaved laborers brought that vision to life. The Rotunda now has a brick-and-mortar counterpoint, a memorial where visitors can honor the lives of the 4,000 enslaved people whose forced labor built the stately campus. On Saturday, in a prerecorded virtual ceremony, the university dedicated the Memorial…
NASHVILLE, TN — Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of cancer metabolism that have been developed and refined over the last 100 years. Instead, non-cancer cells in a tumor — primarily immune cells called macrophages — have the highest glucose uptake, the group reported April 7 in the journal Nature. The findings that different cells in the tumor microenvironment use distinct nutrients according to their own metabolic programs could be exploited to develop new therapies and imaging strategies, the investigators said. “The…
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) _ Four historically Black medical schools are getting $6 million to expand coronavirus vaccination efforts in minority communities. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropy announced the gifts Tuesday, giving $2.1 million to Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, $1.6 million to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine in Los Angeles, $1.6 million to Howard University College of Medicine in Washington and $869,000 to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, Bloomberg is a billionaire who made his fortune with the news and financial media organization that he owns. The money comes months after…