MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For the second year in a row, the Beale Street Music Festival won’t be rocking the Memphis riverfront. Organizers with the Memphis in May International Festival said Friday they are canceling the Memphis music event for 2021 and moving it to 2022 because of COVID. Other events like the barbecue cooking contest are still planned. “Due to the continuing threat of COVID 19 within the presence of large crowds, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 Beale Street Music Festival. We gave it our best shot but found we could not replicate the festival…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Sunday announced new social gathering restrictions while still refusing to implement a mask mandate despite pleas from front-line health care workers in a state experiencing the highest new cases per capita in the country. “Many people think that a statewide mask mandate would improve mask wearing. Many think it would have the opposite effect. This has been a heavily politicized issue, please do not get caught up in that,” Lee said during a rare statewide address that lasted just over five minutes. The Republican called the state “ground zero” in the…
Washington D.C.—President-elect Joe Biden has picked an experienced state regulator, Michael S. Regan of North Carolina to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Regan, who is head of North Carolina’s environmental agency was one of several contenders whose name emerged in recent days. Biden’s pick was confirmed Thursday by a person familiar with the selection process who was not authorized the discuss the matter publicly before the official announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity. Regan became environmental chief in North Carolina in 2017 and made a name for himself by pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping the low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution. If…
By Khalil Abdullah, Ethnic Media Services Arguments in federal court continue this week on whether Georgia’s secretary of state’s office, the defendant in a lawsuit, illegally purged an estimated 198,000 Georgia residents from the state’s voting rolls. U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones has promised a ruling in short order on whether those eligible voters could be restored to the rolls in time to participate in the January 5 run-off elections for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats. “The urgency is there is an election and these people should be allowed to vote,” said CK Hoffler, board chair of the Rainbow…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Cottonelle Brand and Pay Away the Layaway gave $21,000 to pay off the layaways for more than 100 families Saturday at the Madison, TN Walmart. Pay Away the Layaway visits cities all over the United States during both Back to School and the Holiday season and surprises families by paying off the remaining balance of their layaway. The organization only pays layaway balances that include gifts for kids including books, backpacks, toys, games, blankets, clothes and coats. Through the donations we receive from “Layaway Angels” all over the world, Pay Away the Layaway is able to make…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Moldex-Metric, Inc. and Celanese Corporation have partnered to donate 50,000 Moldex N95 respirators to the Nashville Office of Emergency Management for first responders. The donation celebrates the transfer of Celanese’s factory in Lebanon, Tenn., to Moldex, where tens of millions of N95 respirators will be manufactured starting in January 2021. Moldex is expanding its N95 respirator capacity to meet the surge in demand due to Covid-19 and future market needs. The company is in the process of retrofitting the former Celanese factory building in Lebanon. Beyond the capacity increase, Moldex is also building an additional distribution center on…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville youth literacy nonprofit Book’em is donating over 26,000 books through the end of December to help ensure kids across the city have physical books to read over the long holiday break. These donations were possible through multiple partnerships: Over 3,750 donated books to Last Minute Toy Store. Over 16,000 books to 16 Title I Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), through the Book’em Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program. Book’em worked directly with the teachers and administrators at MNPS to arrange for students to receive their books. 3,600 wrapped books for children across the city from New England Patriots linebacker…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (December 17, 2020) – With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) having issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 vaccine, Ascension, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit and Catholic health systems, is implementing a comprehensive vaccine distribution plan that is consistent with federal, state and local guidance. Thursday, Dec 17, at 11:00am, Ascension Saint Thomas, in Nashville, administered its first COVID-19 vaccine. The first recipient was Dr. Jeff Mason, infectious disease specialist, Ascension Saint Thomas. “I’m humbled to be the first caregiver at Ascension Saint Thomas to receive the COVID-19 vaccine,” said Dr. Jeff Mason, infectious disease specialist,…
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Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)–Meharry Medical College, in partnership with Racial Justice Ministries at Scarritt Bennett Center, is hosting a Facebook LIVE Q&A with Meharry President Dr. James Hildreth to spread accurate information and answer questions on the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, Dec. 23 at 6 p.m. Rev. Jean-Marie, Director of Racial Justice Ministries at Scarritt Bennett Center, will ask Dr. Hildreth audience-submitted questions to provide essential answers on COVID-19, the vaccine and the vaccination rollout. Audiences can submit their questions in advance to askmeharry@mmc.edu. The event will be hosted on the Scarritt Bennett Center Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ScarrittBennettCenter.