NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Dozens of Tennessee hospitals have stopped taking transfer patients because they are already overwhelmed during one of the nation’s worst recent outbreaks of COVID-19, the state’s top health official said Wednesday. Tennessee Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said hospitalizations and deaths continue to be at a “critical stage” in the state now dealing with a post-Thanksgiving surge. Officials have pleaded with the public not to gather indoors with other households for Christmas and New Year’s and to wear a mask, which is required in public in some counties at the discretion of local officials, but GOP Gov.…
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Chattanooga Gas, Southern Company Gas, and its parent, Southern Company, are donating $120,000 to Fisk University to support infrastructure upgrades in residence halls. The gift is part of the Southern Company Foundation’s and its subsidiaries’ $50 million Historically Black College and Universities Initiative, a multiyear funding strategy announced in January that provides HBCU students with scholarships, internships, leadership development, and access to technology and innovation to support career readiness. “We are excited to partner with these leading institutions as we invest in the next generation of technology leaders,” said Kim Greene, chairman, president, and CEO of Southern…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune) A bid to buy Ebony Media Holdings by a company headed by former NBA player Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman was approved Tuesday by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, a court spokesperson told Journal-isms. Bridgeman — who starting in the 1970s played for 10 seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and two with the Los Angeles Clippers — had bid about $14 million, Becky Yerak reported Monday for The Wall Street Journal. “Bridgeman said he expects Ebony to remain a digital publication, with occasional special print issues,” Robert Channick reported Tuesday in the Chicago Tribune. “He said the business plan is still being…
By Peter White Governor Bill Lee delivered a statewide address Sunday night, Dec 20, to talk about the “COVID-19 Surge”. As we have reported, the coronavirus has been surging in Tennessee since October. That’s nothing new. Tennessee led the country in new infections for most of December. It has the highest per capita positivity rate in the country, 8,043 cases per 100,000. But last week, California reported 100.4 cases per 100,000 while Tennessee reported a lower rate of 90.8 per 100,000. So for the week of Dec. 20-26, Tennessee’s 7-day daily average was below California’s. It is still a grim situation. “Now Tennessee…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ A former Nashville TV reporter and one-time spokesperson for Karl Dean’s campaign for governor has joined President-elect Joe Biden’s White House communications team. Biden’s transition website says Paige Hill will serve as a senior regional communications director. Most recently, Hill served in a communications role for the Biden campaign in Georgia on post-election lawsuits and recounts. She filled other communications positions in Biden’s campaign, including in South Carolina. Hill was Dean’s communications director in 2018 when the former Nashville mayor lost to Republican Gov. Bill Lee. Before the Oklahoma native worked on campaigns, Hill was a…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)-Leroy Walker, 93 beloved father to Dr. Dolores Walker Mathis and Dr. Janice Yvonne Walker, grandfather The Hon. Njeri Mathis Rutledge, great grandfather, uncle and friend died on December 20, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. He is preceded in death by his loving wife, Hattie Ann Walker, his son Leroy Walker, Jr. (at age 7); brothers Dave Robinson, Horace “Boot” Robinson, Johnny Robinson; sisters Carrie Mae Williams, Rosalee Walker, and Martha Walker. Leroy loved people, and people loved him. Everyone who met him had positive and complimentary things to say about him. They loved him because he was forthright, a…
NASHVILLE, TN — Kwame Leo Lillard was the younger of two children born in Bartow, FL with a few grades completed there for schooling. With the entrepreneurial spirit in tow for a larger city, his mother and father chose Nashville to fulfill the call- ing to further the opportunity for business. With the burgeoning growth of Music City, his parents garnered customers for both cosmetology and upholstery, but Leo adored the bus- tling cohesive nature of the Black community. This was the impetus of the young mind for Leo, learn- ing all the intricacies of networking in Nashville’s Black Community…
Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) introduced the Abolition Amendment, which would strike the “punishment clause” of the 13th Amendment and abolish forced prison labor. “That amendment is known, when we are in high school, as the amendment that ended slavery in America,” Merkley said during a press conference Monday. ‘The problem with that story is that slavery continued under the (punishment) clause of the 13th Amendment. That clause specifically says that slavery can’t continue ‘except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.’” Merkley argued that the 14-word exception…
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr said Monday that he saw no reason to appoint special counsels to oversee the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, son of President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr., or to investigate President Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, again undercutting Mr. Trump’s efforts to bend the department to his political will and to overturn the results of the election. At a news conference to announce charges in an unrelated terrorism case, Mr. Barr said that he did not “see any reason to appoint a special counsel” to oversee the ongoing investigation into…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)-Civil Rights leader and former Metro Councilman Kwame Leo Lillard died Sunday at the age of 81. Nashville civil rights leader for most of his life, Lillard experienced beatings, cigarette burns, curses and racial epithets during the 1960s sit-ins he helped organize. Sen. Brenda Gilmore, D-Nashville, said she was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of her friend Lillard. “A street fighter for justice and the founder of the African Street Festival, Lillard fought tirelessly for the causes of justice and equality in Nashville,” Gilmore said. “It was an honor and a privilege to work with him…