Beginning in March, Nashville was hit with some of the most destructive weather its history, followed by COVID-19, a devastating pandemic. The damage to electricity lines, power poles and other equipment was challenging but Nashville Electric Service stepped up and restored power in record time. NES also eased Nashvillians’ financial burdens by waiving late fees, absorbing credit card fees and ceasing disconnections due to nonpayment through September 30. Today NES continues to be committed to Nashville customers. NES is offering an extended payment plan for 12 months to ease financial burdens, in addition to resources for assistance such as financial…
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Nashville, Tenn. —A faith-based film on racial reconciliation is in theaters now after being delayed due to COVID-19. “My Brothers’ Crossing” is a spiritually uplifting film that depicts a true story about a black pastor that unintentionally has a head on collision with his car into a motorcycle killing a white couple shortly after the Missouri riots in August 2014. The movie is playing in select Regal and AMC theaters throughout the country starting Thursday September 3rd, including AMC Dine-In Thoroughbred 20 in Franklin, Tenn. My Brothers’ Crossing is based on the book, “In the Blink of an…
Nashville, Tenn.-A new Nashville mural honoring the legacy of Chadwick Boseman is generating buzz from fans around the country who are excited to have a place to pay tribute to the late Black Panther star. Nashville artist Charles Key painted the mural located in South Nashville at 155 Lafayette Street. The mural features Boseman in his iconic role as Black Panther. Boseman died August 28 after a battle with colon cancer. He was 43.
By BILL BARROW, WILL WEISSERT and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) _ Joe Biden told residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, that recent turmoil following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, could help Americans confront centuries of systemic racism, drawing a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump amid a reckoning that has galvanized the nation. “We’re finally now getting to the point where we’re going to be addressing the original sin of this country, 400 years old . slavery and all the vestiges of it,” Biden said at Grace Lutheran Church, where he met with community leaders…
(CNN) Kanye West’s secretive political operation has no shot of landing him a spot in the Oval Office, but he and the Republican operatives propping him up could still wreak havoc in a handful of battleground states come November. “Kanye West will not garner enough voters to become president. But he can garner enough voters to determine the outcome of this election,” said Terrance Woodbury, a Democratic pollster and partner at HIT Strategies. Any third-party candidate can pose a risk in a tight election, and strategists say that’s even more true when the candidate comes with name recognition and nationwide…
By Jonathan Easley (The Hill) Democratic nominee Joe Biden offered an emotional rebuke of President Trump on Friday following an anonymously-sourced report in The Atlantic accusing the president of disparaging dead military veterans as “losers” and “suckers.” “If what is written in The Atlantic is true, it’s disgusting,” Biden said. “It affirms what most of us believe to be true, that Donald Trump is not fit to be the commander in chief.” The Atlantic story dominated political discussions on Friday as Republicans expressed skepticism of the anonymous sources behind the story and Democrats expressed outrage over remarks that mirror the…