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Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Sampson W. Keeble was the first African American to serve in the Tennessee legislature. He was born into slavery in Rutherford County and elected to represent Davidson County from 1873 to 1874. Please make a donation to support the Black press and journalism produced by The TN Tribune by visiting https://tntribune.org/donate/

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–About 260,000 customers across Memphis and parts of Shelby County remain under a boil water advisory following last week’s unprecedented winter weather conditions. MLGW spokesperson Gale Jones Carson said the company hopes the issue will be fixed in a few days, but could not give a time that the advisory would end. Residents are asked to keep water use to just the essentials. Residents should not be washing their cars, Carson said. MLGW says things continue to improve with the water issues in Memphis and Shelby County, but the boil water advisory remains in effect until further…

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–On February 9, Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West became the first Ascension hospital in the country and the only medical facility in Tennessee to offer intracoronary brachytherapy, a procedure that helps improve chest pain in patients with stents that have re-narrowed (sometimes called “collapsed”) and reduces the chance of them narrowing again in the future. Two patients from two different southeastern states were treated at West on the day that the technology became available. With this minimally invasive technique, the cardiologist accesses the patient’s narrowed artery with a catheter and exposes problematic scar tissue to small amounts of therapeutic…

NASHVILLE – Today, members of the Senate State and Local Government Committee voted to advance Senate Bill 29 which would allow first responders to live where they choose. The measure, sponsored by State Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown), would ban residency requirements statewide for police officers and firefighters. Kelsey says the bill is a matter of public safety and will allow police and fire departments to recruit top tier first responder candidates, regardless of where they live. The lawmaker says, in particular, it will help Tennessee address a deficit of police officers occurring throughout the country. “This bill will support our…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Tennessee’s Senate on Monday advanced legislation that would allow the governor to issue an executive order requiring schools to offer in-person learning. The GOP-dominant chamber easily passed the measure on a 27-5 vote, with only Democratic senators opposed. The bill comes as Republican leaders have lobbed criticisms against Shelby and Davidson counties _ the state’s most populous counties with Democratic strongholds _ after they declined to provide an in-person schooling option for months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While both counties have since reopened in-person teaching, GOP lawmakers want to ensure that the governor can intervene when…

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Fort Negley in Nashville was built by 2,768 enslaved and free Black men and women during the Civil War. Enslaved people were promised freedom if they worked for the Union Army. Please make a donation to support the Black press and journalism produced by The TN Tribune by visiting https://tntribune.org/donate/

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) Feb. 23rd – USDA Rural Development Area Director Joel Howard participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Paris Board of Public Utilities (BPU) Water Treatment Plant today. “We are proud to partner with Paris BPU on the construction of its new Water Treatment Plant,” Howard said. “The new plant will adequately serve this rural community to ensure they have the necessary water infrastructure to meet the needs of the community for years to come.” In 2018, Paris BPU, through the City of Paris received a Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant totaling $7.2 million…

Golf legend Tiger Woods was rushed into emergency surgery after he was involved in a single-car accident on Tuesday that left him with multiple injuries, his agent reports. “On February 23, 2021, at approximately 7:12 AM, LASD responded to a single roll-over traffic collision on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. The driver and sole occupant was identified as PGA golfer, Eldrick “Tiger” Woods. Mr. Woods was extricated from the wreck with the “jaws of life” by Los Angeles County firefighters and paramedics, then transported to…

WASHINGTON — Five hundred candles glowed around President Joe Biden as he stood outside the White House in a moment of silence to honor the lives of the more than 500,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19. “Today we mark a truly heartbreaking milestone: 500,071 dead,” Biden said during remarks in the Cross Hall of the White House before the moment of silence. “That’s more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. That’s more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on…

(TN Tribune)–Walt Carr, 88, of Columbia, has been drawing cartoons for some 50 years. Self-taught, he worked at the Social Security Administration as an illustrator in their art department. “Ever since I ever picked up a pencil, I’ve been drawing or doodling. It has been a passion of mine,” Carr said. He started a freelance cartooning career and contributed gag cartoons that had no connection to political commentary to Black publications. “I was a longtime contributor to ‘Ebony’ magazine’s ‘Strictly for Laughs’ page, and of course, I had cartoons that appeared in ‘Playboy,’ ‘Players’ magazine, several other Black magazines that…