NASHVILLE, TN — Grammy Award-winning country music artist Kix Brooks is the new chair of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Advisory Board, effective July 1, taking over for outgoing chair Allison DeMarcus. Louise Adams, who succeeds Judge Les Smith, was recently named chair of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) Advisory Board. Approximately 100 community members serve as volunteers on VUMC’s advisory boards and are philanthropic supporters and advocates in the community. They are critical to VUMC’s mission to provide expert specialty care and advance discovery research and world-class clinical training. “Louise and Kix are both passionate and long-serving…
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By Jackson Baker Memphis Flyer MEMPHIS, TN — With early voting underway as of last Friday (and continuing through August 1st) and Election Day itself rapidly approaching, requests for mail-in ballots for the August 6th county general election and federal/state primaries are being described, alternatively, as “through the roof” and “spiking.” (To secure a mail-in absentee ballot, you must apply by July 30th; see sidebar.) The election has been hampered by the continuing coronavirus pandemic, which has made for sporadic and low-key campaigning, and it would, in normal circumstances, be regarded as an anticlimactic way station between the Tennessee presidential…
By Lauren Leatherby The coronavirus pandemic will shutter many small businesses. And early evidence shows it is disproportionately hurting Black-owned small businesses. More than 40 percent of Black business owners reported they weren’t working in April, when businesses were feeling the worst of the pandemic’s economic consequences. Only 17 percent of white small business owners said the same, according to an analysis of government data by Robert Fairlie of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Many small businesses are struggling during the pandemic because they lack easy access to loans and cannot easily move their businesses online. Black-owned businesses tend…
Fourth in a series tracking how the nation, the state, and Nashville responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — On March 8, Mayor John Cooper announced Nashville’s first case of COVID-19. Dr. Michael Caldwell, Dr. Alex Jahangir, and Dr. John Dunn, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) State Epidemiologist joined him. A month earlier, the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) distributed 160,000 COVID-19 tests. Only about 4,000 were ever used because they gave inconclusive results. It took weeks to sort out and private labs didn’t deliver their own tests until mid-April. If Dunn knew the…
NASHVILLE, TN — Harbinger Theological Seminary, a ministry of Nashville Church of Christ, is seeking applicants for its Summer Session 2, which opens August 3 and continues for seven weeks, through September 18. Harbinger Theological Seminary offers certifications in Christian Counseling, Christian Apologetics, Multicultural Missions, Bible in the Contemporary World, New Testament and Hermeneutical Studies, and Church Leadership. Each module for each certification is seven weeks. Classes meet for three hours each week, digitally in real time. Lectures are recorded for reference. Anyone who is interested in learning is welcome to enroll. All courses are offered on a first-come, first-served…
Third in a series tracking how the nation, the state, and Nashville responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN —The school year will begin in a couple of weeks but in four of the nation’s largest school districts, children will not be attending in person. Schools in Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlanta, and Prince George’s County, MD. will be virtual. Schools in Nashville, Memphis, and Denver will also open remotely. In many places, COVID-19 infections are so high, local leaders do not think schools can reopen safely. President Trump has demanded that schools reopen five days a…
By Staff Reports NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee State University’s Julia Pierson was named a nominee for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year award last week. She is one of 605 nomi- nees. Rooted in Title IX and directed by the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics, the NCAA Woman of the Year pro- gram celebrates the accomplishments of female college athletes across all three NCAA divisions. The winner will be an- nounced this fall. After graduating from TSU in December with a degree in psychology, Pier- son is currently enrolled in a master’s program for professional school counseling at TSU.…
Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church will hold its annual Women’s Day Service on Sunday, July 26 at the 10 a.m. service, virtually. Service is delivered virtually on facebook live or Zoom. The dial-in number is 312-626-6799 Access code: 8398101169#. The theme is Resilient Women: Embracing Our Purpose, Power and Possibilities, from Psalm 46:1-5. Dr. Paula Michelle Wyatt is the keynote speaker. Wyatt holds a doctorate degree in nursing from Vanderbilt University, one of few African American women to hold such a degree, nationwide. In September 1997, Michelle completed her Practical Nurse Diploma and worked as a pediatric charge nurse for many…
His death marks the loss of a revered civil rights icon, and the acknowledged conscience of Congress for more than 30 years. By Eleanor Clift/The Daily Beast ‘I never became bitter or hostile.’ How John Lewis fought until the end. Throughout his long career in Congress, which began in 1987, John Robert Lewis served as a reminder of his country’s past and how far this country has come. Born in Troy, Alabama, in 1940, the son of sharecroppers, he died at age 80 on July 17, 2020 a revered civil rights icon, the acknowledged conscience of Congress for more than 30…
This is the second part in a series tracking how the nation, the state, and Nashville responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — Why has the richest country in the world responded to the pandemic no better than, say, Paraguay? Here are five reasons: Testing: The federal response to produce accurate tests was bungled, and precious time was lost before private labs were authorized to develop their own COVID tests. China published the genome of the virus in early January. The World Health Organization (WHO) shipped 250,00 tests to 70 labs around the world in early…