NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 12, 2021 – The Metro Public Health Department today began scheduling appointments for those 70 and older to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Health Department officials encourage Davidson County residents in the age group to schedule an appointment by visiting covid19.nashville.gov or by calling 615-862-7777 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Health Department will offer the 70 and older age group 100 appointments each day, Monday through Friday, and 300 appointments each day on Saturdays and Sundays through Sunday, February 21. This is in addition to the 100s of appointments already scheduled for Phase 1a2 and those…
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Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccinations for people 75 and up can leave out Black Americans, who tend to die younger than their white counterparts. In majority-Black Shelby County, this gap raises questions of how to make the vaccine rollout equitable. By Wendi C. Thomas and Hannah Grabenstein, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism Feb. 12, 11:30 a.m. EST MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rosalyn Campbell and her husband, Calvin, are waiting for what may be the most in-demand item on the planet: the COVID-19 vaccine. They both caught the virus in November; Calvin Campbell tested positive just days after he’d been released from the hospital following…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman was born June 1, 1937 in Memphis. Please make a donation to support the Black press and journalism produced by The TN Tribune by visiting https://tntribune.org/donate/
Washington D.C.–House Democrats closed their impeachment case against Donald Trump on Thursday by linking his history of incendiary rhetoric and months-long campaign to undermine the November election to the statements of insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 — and raising the prospect of future violence without a conviction. The rioters seeking to block the final certification of his defeat swarmed on Trump’s orders, the impeachment managers argued to the Senate, leading to death and destruction, placing hundreds in and around the Capitol in harm’s way, emboldening extremist factions and diminishing America’s standing in the eyes of the world.…
Sewanee, TN (TN Tribune)–The on-campus home of Vice Chancellor Reuben Brigety II has been repeatedly vandalized throughout his first year of leading the University of the South. During a Sunday worship service at All Saints’ Chapel, Brigety detailed the nighttime incidents that happened outside Chen Hall, which is where he resides with his family. “They have trashed our lawn with beer cans and liquor bottles. They have left threatening messages on pilfered signs near our back door and they have taken measures to ensure that my family and I saw the indecent insults that they left behind,” Brigety said in a video of his…
By Oscar H. Blayton Each February in schools across the nation, pictures of well-known Black historical figures are mounted on bulletin boards in commemoration of Black History Month. These figures are presented to young American minds as Black heroes to be noted during the shortest month of the year, and then tucked away for the next 11 months. As long as this annual exercise creeps along from year to year in its present form, it will inhibit the recognition of the “Black character” of America. Black History Month, as it exists today, continues the practice of “othering” Black people in…
NASHVILLE, TN. (TN Tribune) — Dr. James Hildreth has been named by President Joe Biden as a member of his COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Hildreth is a renowned immunologist and academic administrator. He serves as the 12th president and chief executive officer of Meharry Medical College. Dr. Hildreth released a statement, which reads: I am honored to be chosen by President Biden as a member of the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. We are facing one of the largest challenges in the history of our nation. COVID-19 has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and if adequate steps…
Chattanooga Feb 14 th 4 PM EST- 5 PM EST: Black-Jewish Dialogue To register for this event, please email at info@DiversityReport.com Feb 15 th 9 AM EST: Black History Oral History Project Featuring Diane Mason (Available to be seen at Bessie Smith Cultural Center Facebook page) Feb 17 th 9 AM EST: Black History Oral History Project Featuring Irvin Overton (Available to be seen at Bessie Smith Cultural Center Facebook page) Feb 22 nd 9 AM EST : Black History Oral History Project Featuring Moses Freeman (Available to be seen at Bessie Smith Cultural Center Facebook page) Feb 24 th…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Verleon Hunt Smithson was born in Nashville, Tennessee at midnight on May 1, 1921, a mere eight years before the stock market crash. Her parents, the late John L. Smithson, Sr. and Lou Ora Berry-Smithson had a total of nine other children. Verleon Smithson graduated from Pearl High School in 1939. She belonged to the Pearl High School Reunion Committee. For many years, the committee helped coordinate annual dinners to raise funds for college scholarships, which were awarded to deserving students. Verleon Smithson married Roscoe Conklin Grant, Sr., an author and community organizer. To this union was…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 11, 2021– Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that the U.S. government has purchased an additional 100 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine, bringing its confirmed order commitment to 300 million doses. Moderna has supplied 41 million released doses of the vaccine to the U.S. government to date. More than 22 million Americans have received the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S., according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1. Moderna remains on track to deliver the first 100 million doses in the first quarter…