Tennessee Tribune Staff While people around the world are reeling from the loss of iconic actor Chadwick Boseman, James Shaw Jr., who is best known as the hero who unarmed a shooter bearing an AR-15 at a Waffle House in Nashville, is reflecting on his iconic moment shared with the Black Panther star. Boseman, who died Friday, August 28, shared the stage with Shaw Jr. during the 2018 MTV Movie and TV Awards. During the broadcast, Boseman won the MTV Movie Award for “Best Superhero,” for his role in Black Panther and graciously gave his award to Shaw. “The moment…
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By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, JONATHAN LEMIRE and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press Aug 31 2020 PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Declaring President Donald Trump a “toxic presence,” Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violence at recent protests while also blaming Trump for fomenting the divide that’s sparking it. “He doesn’t want to shed light, he wants to generate heat, and he’s stoking violence in our cities,” Biden said Monday. “He can’t stop the violence because for years he’s fomented it.“ In one of his sharpest attacks on the president yet, Biden went on to call Trump a “toxic presence in this nation for four years”…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Community college students looking for a future in engineering will have a home at Tennessee State University, thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The TSU College of Engineering received the funding recently to recruit minority transfer students from regional community colleges in Middle Tennessee who are interested in pursuing degrees in engineering, mathematical sciences or computer science. Dr. S. Keith Hargrove The grant award, “Promoting Recruitment and Retention of Minority Transfer Students in Science and Engineering,” or PROMISE, will provide 45 scholarships over five years to successful candidates who…
By Tennessee Tribune Staff The North Nashville Heritage Project has launched an online petition to stop the scheduled demolition of the north Nashville home of Henry Allen and Georgia Boyd. According to the petition posted on Moveon.org, the home at 1601 Meharry Boulevard was constructed in 1938 and has stood as a symbol of one of the most powerful narratives in this city’s history, as many lives were touched by the Boyds. “The two occupants of this home, Dr. Henry Allen and Georgia Bradford Boyd’s lives and careers impacted countless African Americans in this city, nation, and other groups around…
McDonald’s is facing a new lawsuit from Black former franchisees who say they faced decades of discrimination at the fast-food chain were denied equal opportunity to economic success compared to their white peers. A complaint filed by 52 former McDonald’s franchisees on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois is seeking more than $1 billion, collectively, in direct damages from McDonald’s. Franchisees in the complaint said they faced “systematic and covert racial discrimination,” with the company denying them the same opportunities as their white counterparts. McDonald’s has to approve all new franchisees, and the lawsuit…
Sept. 2, 2020 By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Tennessee now leads the nation in criminalizing common protest tactics, with penalties including the denial of voting rights for pitching a tent on the Capitol grounds. But outrage over racial injustice isn’t going away, and civil rights advocates say the law was pulled from an age-old playbook that hasn’t stood up to history. Just like the Southern politicians who strained to maintain segregation in the 1950s and 60s, contemporary elected leaders vexed by the Occupy Wall Street movement, demonstrations against oil and gas pipelines and this year’s protests…
By Elizabeth Lampkin, Contributing Writer, Chicago Defender The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life across the world. From restaurant closures, flight cancellations and school closings, the freedom and interpersonal interactions often taken for granted have been seized away from society. In times like these, people seek guidance and hope from a higher power and develop a renewed faith in God. That creates a sense of urgency to gather together for comfort and support from their church families. However, with the stay-at-home order, self-isolations, and quarantine practices, large gatherings in churches have been put on hold. This leads to pastors and parishioners…
By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not “backpedal” on the number of deaths caused by COVID-19, reducing the figure from nearly 154,000 to just over 9,000, as social media posts claimed. The term “Only 6%” trended widely on Twitter over the weekend as supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory promoted tweets that falsely suggested the CDC had updated its records to show that only 6% of U.S. deaths tied to COVID-19 were legitimate. President Donald Trump was among those who tweeted the information, which was later taken down by Twitter for violating…
The National Urban League has released its 2020 State of Black America Report. This year’s report, “Unmasked” explores the various ways the Coronavirus pandemic has exposed the face of racism in America in areas such as health care, the economy and the justice system. Access the full report here
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee election officials have purged 145,806 people from the voter rolls since 2018, That’s about 3.5% of the 4.1 million registered voters in Tennessee. That is a relatively small number compared to the 2.7 million voting-age Tennesseans who are eligible but not registered. If they were, the size of Tennessee’s electorate would increase by 1/3 and that would have an enormous impact in the 2020 Election. “If you don’t exercise your ability to vote you will lose it,” said Andrea Miller, executive director of Center for Common Ground. Miller’s group is allied with NAACP,…