NASHVILLE, TN — The sisters, who are also majoring in medicine, health and society, are applying to medical school with a focus in the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of narrative medicine, which employs creative skills from the humanities to enable caregivers to help patients voice their experiences with health issues more clearly. “Our work through our English major is helping build critical thinking and analysis as well as empathy and care for people and their stories,” Jazmyn said. “I think a lot of times the doctor-patient relationship can get lost in translation in medical terms, with so much focus on science…
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Nashville,TN ( TN Tribune)– The Terrance Murray Memorial Edgehill Community Garden will mark the arrival of spring with their annual Blessing Ceremony, on Thursday, April 8, at 10:00AM. The ceremony will be held at the garden, located on the South side of Horton Avenue, between 12th Avenue South and 14th Avenue South. The event is open to the public. This year, for the first time, the blessing ceremony will held in coordination with a national organization, Interfaith Power and Light, a faith-based non-profit whose work centers around climate change awareness, education and action. This year’s theme is “Sacred Ground,…
NASHVILLE – Today Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-05) announced the U.S. Small Business Administration Shuttered Venues Operations Grant portal will open tomorrow, April 8, and venues that qualify can apply on the Small Business Administration’s website by clicking here. The Small Business Administration provides a checklist for venue operators to go through ahead of the opening, and that can be found here. “I fought hard to get this much needed grant program into the COVID-19 relief bills that will help save music in Nashville,” Rep. Jim Cooper said. “I am relieved our venues will soon be able to apply.”
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)– It’s April 2021 and five GOP senators have stated they will not be running for reelection. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina said back in 2016 that his current term would be his last, and Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania revealed last October that he would not run for reelection either. Then, on Monday morning, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio joined them, saying in a statement that “[I]t has gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy.” GOP Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri and Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby…
Alcee Hastings, the son of a housemaid and a butler who overcame every obstacle to become Florida’s senior member of Congress, died Tuesday morning in hospice care at the age of 84. Hastings was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in 2018 and continued to work and make public appearances until he became too weak to do so – missing the Jan. 3 roll call vote to reelect Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and votes on Republican challenges to the election of President Joe Biden. In a statement, he said that on the advice of doctors he would…
By Lee H. Hamilton As Washington turns its attention to infrastructure and other matters of policy, the Senate filibuster isn’t commanding quite the same headlines as it did a few weeks back. But that’s only because the issue is percolating behind the scenes. At some point, it will return to the limelight. And when it does, you should understand what’s at stake. Because as obscure as it seems, it actually goes to the heart of how we operate as a democracy. The key point to remember is that as the country’s population has shifted, a growing number of senators have come to…
(NPR News) In his $2 trillion plan to improve America’s infrastructure, President Biden is promising to address the racism ingrained in historical transportation and urban planning. Biden’s plan includes $20 billion for a program that would “reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments,” according to the White House. It also looks to target “40 percent of the benefits of climate and clean infrastructure investments to disadvantaged communities.” Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances,…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Fifty-three years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, the slain civil rights icon’s legacy is easily seen in how his daughter has continued to fight for many of the same causes. Bernice A. King joined the children of late civil rights champions the Rev. C.T. Vivian, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, in blasting voter suppression laws that have cropped up since the 2020 election. In a letter, King, Al Vivian, and John-Miles Lewis took issue with corporate leaders who have done little or nothing to back up…
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color with Walter Carr and Ray Billingsley via Zoom Friday, June 18 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Join veteran illustrators, Walter Carr and Ray Billingsley, as they discuss black perspective—Carr as a political cartoonist and Billingsley in his syndicated comic strip “Curtis.” Both men use drawing to share and illuminate black experience, using humor to educate, inspire, and inform their readers. Discovered on the streets of Harlem, NY, Ray Billingsley was a youngster when he was introduced into a decade’s long career as a Black cartoonist. He literally grew up in the industry, facing the same sort…
NASHVILLE – Fisk University is hosting a public celebration on Thursday, April 8 at 4 p.m. to honor the Fisk Jubilee Singers® winning the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Roots Gospel Album. The celebration will take place on the Fisk University campus in front of Jubilee Hall. It will include a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers®. The album, Celebrating Fisk! (The 150 th Anniversary Album), is the first GRAMMY win for the Fisk Jubilee Singers® in their 150-year history. The album includes recordings from 2016 and 2017 concerts at the Ryman Auditorium. The 12-song collection includes guest appearances by…