KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ A Tennessee county voted this week to strip the local Board of Health of the power to enact pandemic safety rules after complaints that its indoor mask mandate and bar curfew have hurt businesses and restricted personal freedoms, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The 8-3 vote by the Knox County Commission on Monday came after months of public feuding. It effectively dissolved the health board and reconstituted it with the same members an advisory board. That leaves the county with two health advisory boards, since it created another one last year. It’s unclear what the role…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Trailblazing music trio Chapel Hart, following their induction into CMT’s Next Women Of Country Class of 2021, is launching their #FollowYourHart tour with a SOLD-OUT show at Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana, Friday, April 2nd. Excited to meet their fans in person after a long year in creative isolation, the ‘Follow Your Hart Tour’ includes performances across Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. Chapel Hart’s reach is continuously growing through their contagious lyrics, unmatched energy, genuine passion, and abundant love for their fans. “We are so excited & nervous! It’s like…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Applications for The HistoryMakers Digital Archive 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship program are now being accepted. Eight (8) Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowships ($7500) will be awarded on Friday, May 14, 2021. This fellowship program builds upon the inaugural 2020 Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship program launched last year. Supervising faculty included Harvard University’s Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Vanderbilt University’s Alice Randall, and University of Virginia’s Brian N. Williams and teaching faculty included Vanderbilt University’s Caroline Randall Williams, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Elsie Harper-Anderson, Eastern Kentucky University’s Joshua Farrington, Stony Brook University’s Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Johnson C. Smith University’s Marsha Rhee, The Ohio State University’s Megan LePere-Schloop, and the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Kathleen Yang-Clayton. Applications are…
NASHVILLE, TN – Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center (MWCHC) is excited to announce a recent partnership with Piedmont Natural Gas, Connectus Health, and local community- and faith-based organizations to bring 2,500 COVID-19 vaccines to residents throughout North Nashville. The vaccines will be distributed beginning April 5 through April 9 at Hadley Park, and community members can register here. In an effort to reach underserved communities throughout North Nashville, MWCHC utilized their strong relationships with key local partners to administer COVID-19 vaccines throughout the area. MWCHC is working with North Nashville partners to register community members. This strategy will vaccinate 2,500 Nashvillians. “We…
Black folk have farmed, planted, tilled and cultivated agricultural and food production in America since their arrival from Africa on slave ships. Their labor helped to create global capitalism and has transformed American food production, animal farming and cooking. Yet their ability to accumulate wealth, land, businesses and income based on their agricultural prowess has been halted at every turn, at times by brute force, most often by acts of systemic racism. These farmers, who overwhelmingly resided in the South, have faced and fought discrimination at local, state and federal levels — they were denied equal access to bank loans, lines of credit and…
On Saturday evening, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made a series of provocative comments on Fox News in which he compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the American Confederacy. The controversial congressman also claimed America is facing a cultural genocide, diminishing actual genocides such as the Holocaust and American Slavery. Gaetz’s stunning comments came during an interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro on the Fox News Show Justice with Judge Jeanine. While discussing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) refusal to condemn Baltimore protestors for taking down a statute of Christopher Columbus, the firebrand congressman unleashed a broadside on the recent trend of protestors…
NASHVILLE, TN (April 1, 2021) – Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Co. (Citizens Bank) announced today the addition of Kandace Harris to its leadership team as Vice President of Retail Banking. Citizens Bank has served the Nashville community since 1904 and is the oldest, continuously operating African American-owned bank in the United States. As Vice President of Retail Banking, Harris holds responsibility for daily operations of full-service branch offices in Nashville and Memphis, including consumer lending, product sales and customer service. After announcing leadership changes in 2018, Citizens Bank has successfully improved its capital and market position. Earlier this year,…
By Peter Hermann, Aaron C. Davis and Matt Zapotosky One Capitol police officer was killed and another injured Friday when a vehicle rammed into them near the U.S. Capitol, the department’s chief said at a news conference. Chief Yogananda Pittman said a person left the vehicle with a knife and started lunging. She said police opened fire, killing the suspect. It was not immediately clear how the officer was fatally injured. The incident that occurred about 1 p.m. comes less than three months after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol left five people dead, including Capitol Police Officer Brian…
NASHVILLE, TN – Drive to the Gulf Coast for a holiday and by the time you get to the beach you will have crossed hundreds of invisible borders, most of them unnoted but nonetheless real. Lines drawn on maps designate everything from state lines (each state gets two senators) to city council districts. Nashville has 35 of those. But it has 5 at Large council seats, too. Maps can have overlapping lines for different things. Since the 1960s, congressional election districts all have had the same number of people living within their boundaries. “The one explicit constitutional use of the…
NASHVILLE, TN – Steel is being hung for the MLS Soccer stadium at the Fairgrounds but local ironworkers aren’t on the job. LPR Construction, a nonunion company out of Colorado, got the contract. “I do have some members of this local that are working on the stadium but the substantial part of the stadium, which is steel erection, we didn’t get any of that,” said Jacen Davidson, president of Iron Workers Local 492. Davidson said he has been chasing jobs at the Fairgrounds for his members for three years. “That’s all non-union,” he said. Nashville Machine Company is doing the…