NASHVILLE, TN — The Tennessee State Museum will mark the closing of its exhibition, Let’s Eat! Origins and Evolutions of Tennessee Food, on Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. with a special “In Conversation” event featuring mother and daughter, Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams, authors of Soul Food Love (Clarkson Potter, 2015). The event is free and open to the public. In Soul Food Love, novelist and Let’s Eat! exhibition scholar Alice Randall and her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, reclaim and redefine soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy…
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Over 1,800 band members to take the field in Atlanta on January 25, 2020 TORRANCE, CA — The votes are in and the top eight bands have been selected to perform at an epic 2020 Honda Battle of the Bands (HBOB), the nation’s premier showcase for HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) marching bands and dance teams. HBCU marching band fans cast their votes to help choose the “final eight” bands, which will bring more than 1,800 student musicians and dancers to perform at the 17th HBOB Invitational Showcase on January 25, 2020 in Atlanta. The 2020 HBOB Invitational Showcase…
KNOXVILLE, TN — Knoxville Opera is urgently searching for storage space after receiving notice of the sale of their current facility. Knoxville Opera was notified at the end of December that the building in which it occupies 11,000 square feet of space on Western Avenue is in the process of being sold, which requires vacating the premises by the end of February. “We are in a critical bind,” said Knoxville Opera Executive and Artistic Director Brian Salesky. “Having to find a new home for our scenery and props in 6 weeks qualifies as an emergency.” The current space had been…
In Southern states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, adults experienced lower rates of decline in both physical and mental health, according to research published this month in the journal Health Affairs. This new research conducted by faculty at the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) and Harvard Medical School draws on data on 15,536 low-income individuals recruited predominantly at community health centers in 12 Southern states as part of the Southern Community Cohort Study. Its findings add substance to state-level debates over the merits of expansion, including the question of…
NASHVILLE, TN — Dustin Greene has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., effective February 1, 2020. Greene currently serves as chief executive officer (CEO) of sister facility TriStar Horizon Medical Center in Dickson, Tenn. As CEO of TriStar Skyline, Greene will be responsible for operations at the 278-bed hospital as well as TriStar Skyline Madison, a 121-bed behavioral health hospital, and related care areas serving communities in and around Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. “Dustin’s strong strategic and financial acumen, along with his commitment to quality patient care and building an internal…
NASHVILLE- The Urban League of Middle Tennessee (ULMT) is partnering with the U.S. Census Bureau to recruit people from the Middle Tennessee area to assist with the 2020 Census count. The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring for a variety of temporary jobs, including census takers, recruiting assistants, office staff, and supervisory staff. You must have a valid Social Security number, and be a United States citizen. You must be 18 to work for Census 2020. Positions are available with pay in Nashville-Davidson County up to $23/hr and Williamson County up to $26/hr. Register: www.ulmt.org/events WHAT: Census 2020…
The program is a partnership between Vanderbilt and Metro Nashville Public Schools. We are seek strong, motivated, diverse students who are excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. Students attend one day a week on the Vanderbilt campus and earn advanced high school credit. Students engage in a rigorous, research-focused curriculum with scientists and engineers as their instructors. The application is available now on our website -https://www.vanderbilt.edu/cso/ssmv/prospective/index.php – and is due on February 14.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – December 30, 2019 – Medsurant Holdings, LLC, of West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle the United States’ allegations that it had violated the False Claims Act, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Mesurant Holdings, which operates under the trade name Medsurant Health, is the largest independent provider of Interoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM) services to hospitals and surgeons in the United States. IONM includes various procedures that are used during surgery to monitor a patient’s nervous system in real-time during high-risk surgeries involving the peripheral nervous system, brain and…
By Laura Faith Kebede MEMPHIS, TN — Fifty years ago, one of the largest and longest protests held in Memphis centered on education. The protests, known collectively as Black Monday, called for parents to take their children out of school during at least five Mondays in the fall of 1969 and march in support of 15 demands the NAACP submitted to the Memphis school board. As local news deserts become the norm, Chalkbeat remains 100% committed to the communities we cover. Get our Tennessee education stories delivered to your inbox. Because school funding, then and now, was tied to student…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN — In November State Comptroller Justin Wilson and his deputy, Jason Mumpower, came to the David Scobey Council Chamber to deliver warnings to the City Council and Metro Water Services about the woeful state of their finances. Wilson told the Council and the Mayor’s office to balance the city’s budget or face a state takeover. On December 11, Finance Director Kevin Crumbo balanced the budget and calamity was avoided. (see Budget) Metro Water Services (MWS) has not kept up with replacing the city’s aging water and sewer systems. They know that. They have been telling…