(AP) Twitter banned President Donald Trump’s account Friday, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Twitter has long given Trump and other world leaders broad exemptions from its rules against personal attacks, hate speech and other behaviors. But in a detailed explanation posted on its blog Friday, the company said recent Trump tweets amounted to glorification of violence when read in the context of the Capitol riot and plans circulating online for future armed protests around the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. The social platform has been under growing…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Clarence Carter will serve in his cabinet as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services. “Clarence has dedicated his career to helping children and families, and he joins my cabinet with extensive experience with critical programs like TANF,” said Gov. Lee. “He will be an invaluable asset to our state and we welcome him to Tennessee.” Carter currently serves at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families as the Director of the Office of Family Assistance and the Acting Director of the Office of Community Services.…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When a major healthcare organization asked A.R. Bernard, the Black head of a Brooklyn megachurch, to sit on a committee tasked with boosting acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines in communities of color in New York City, he demurred. Bernard, who leads the Christian Cultural Center, the largest church in the city, said he turned down the offer because he worried some members of his congregation could view his participation as “joining forces with the system” to use African Americans “as guinea pigs” for vaccines that have been developed in record time. Like most of the dozen Black…
An Iraqi judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of President Donald Trump over the deaths of leading Iranian and Iraqi military officials in an airstrike last year at Baghdad International Airport. Such a crime could be considered eligible for capital punishment under Iraq’s criminal code, though such extradition and sentence are extremely unlikely. Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced Thursday that a judge with the Rusafa Investigation Court, the judicial body entrusted with the year-long probe, “decided to issue an arrest warrant against the outgoing President of the United States Donald Trump in accordance with the provisions of Article…
(CNN) Facebook and Instagram will ban President Donald Trump’s account from posting for at least the remainder of his term in office and perhaps “indefinitely,” Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post on Thursday. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” the Facebook CEO wrote in the post. “Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.” The decision marks a major escalation…
NASHVILLE, TN — Meharry Medical College is kicking off the new year with the launch of its Novavax COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial. Enrollment for the trial began on Monday, January 4 as 12 individuals received the first injection of the trial. Participants in the Novavax trial at Meharry will receive the first injection upon enrollment, and can expect to receive the second injection 21 days later. All participants will be monitored over a 26-month period. Meharry hopes to enroll at least 250 participants in the trial, and recruitment is ongoing. Priority enrollment will be given to minority participants with comorbid…
CHATTANOOGA, TN — Chattanooga Mayoral candidate Wade Hinton today announced the membership of a fifty-person leadership committee to guide his 2021 campaign. In building a committee that is fully representative of the city’s diversity, Hinton is delivering on his campaign’s promise to make Chattanooga a model for equity, diversity, and inclusion. The committee includes local leaders such as: ● Bishop Kevin Adams ● Bill Aiken ● Andrew Kean ● Alison Lebovitz ● Kristina Montague ● Rosemary Porter ● Dr. Ernest Reid, Jr. ● Stephanie Sinkfield ● BettyeLynn Smith ● Aaron Webb ● Pastor Carlos Williams ● Judge Walter Williams
NASHVILLE, TN — Ivanetta Davis Samuels, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Meharry Medical College, has been named to the Board of Directors for Amedisys, one of the largest home healthcare providers in the United States. Samuels will leverage 25 years of experience practicing both criminal and civil law to counsel Amedisys on legal affairs as the organization focuses on providing high-quality care to the aging population. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to support Amedisys and its mission to provide equitable, clinically distinctive care to all of its patients,” said Ivanetta Davis Samuels. “As a woman of…
By Vivian Jones The Center Square City councils in Chattanooga and Memphis have passed resolutions declaring racism a public health crisis. The Nashville Metro Council office confirmed Wednesday that no similar resolution has been filed with the Nashville Metro clerk. The Memphis resolution was brought by City Council Chairwoman Patrice Robinson. While the resolution expresses commitment to enacting policies that eradicate the effects of systemic racism, no policies specifically are outlined in the resolution. “Today, many decades after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Black Americans continue to endure unfair treatment and violence resulting from police brutality with the…
By Adrian Sainz Eliza Woods proclaimed her innocence, but she was jailed. After Woods was lynched on Aug. 18, 1886, prominent anti-lynching writer Ida B. Wells protested the killing in her writings. Woods was later exonerated when the husband of the dead white woman confessed to killing her, according to Boyles, who has researched the lynchings. John Brown’s lynching took place at midnight on July 26, 1891. The switchman he was initially accused of killing actually survived, Boyles said. Another black man, Frank Ballard, was lynched in Jackson in 1894. According to The Jackson Sun, he had been accused of…