NASHVILLE, TN — Respected Nashville attorney Gail Vaughn Ashworth has been named one of the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar.” She has been on the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar” list since it was established. In 2021, she received the publication’s Lifetime Achievement winner in the “Best of the Bar” Awards. Ashworth, founding member at Wiseman Ashworth Trauger, has extensive experience at the civil and administrative trial and appellate levels as both defense and plaintiff’s counsel. She is also a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator and Family Mediator with a mediation practice in addition…
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By Wanda Clay On Sunday, July 30, members and friends will gather in two locations to remember the loss of one of the beloved community members of the United Methodist Church, Rev. Dr. Autura Eason-Williams. At 4:00 p.m. lament worship services will be held in Nashville at Clark Memorial United Methodist Church, 1014 14th Ave. N., Rev. Toi King, Senior Pastor and in Memphis, TN at Centenary United Methodist Church, Rev. Keith Caldwell, Senior Pastor. This day of lament is established by the Black Methodist for Church Renewal (BMCR) of the Tennessee/Western Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church…
KNOXVILLE, TN — With summer in full swing, The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE), the Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT), and the University of Tennessee (UT) collaborated last week to host “Adventures in STEM”, where middle school students learned Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) related concepts linking math, engineering, and sustainability through fun, hands-on activities, teamwork, field trips and engaging with scientists and engineers. The camp designed for rising 7-9 grade students involved activities focused on ecology, biodiversity, electric circuitry, renewable energy, solar…
NASHVILLE, TN — Meharry Medical College and Tennessee Donor Services (TDS) are celebrating the nation’s first TDS-Meharry program, which seeks to address disparities in organ donation and diversify the donation workforce. The program aims to provide medical students with foundational experiences early in their medical training to ultimately attract new talent in the industry. There are 53,000 transplant and recovery surgeons in the United States. Of those surgeons, only 5.5 percent are Black – creating a significant disparity between the race of doctors and the patients they serve. With more than 30,000 Black Americans actively on the transplant waiting list…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)-Twenty-eight new Metro police officers will graduate from five months of physical and classroom training this afternoon during a 1:30 p.m. ceremony at Christ Presbyterian Church, 2323 Old Hickory Boulevard. Mayor Cooper and Chief Drake will offer remarks. This is the fifth of eight classes of new officers scheduled to graduate in 2023. The new officers will spend the next four months on the streets with field training officers and will rotate among the precincts before beginning to police on their own. Today’s graduation ceremony will be streamed live on the MNPD’s YouTube channel.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – From morning to night, Cheekwood will celebrate Black artists with music, dance, spoken word, visual art and more. Attendees have the opportunity to explore and experience the many forms of Black musical expression and traditions, including gospel, R&B, and funk. Other offerings include a community quilt activity, story time and hands-on activities for the kids, and southern homecooked favorites made by local Black chefs available for purchase. In addition, and exhibition of art from emerging and established artists will be on view in the Frist Learning Center. “Black Arts Bash is a celebration of black…
NASHVILLE— With his family by his side, former Nashville Council member Anthony Davis was sworn in this afternoon as the new State Representative for District 51. Davis succeeds Bill Beck, who died unexpectedly from a heart attack last month. District 51 encompasses parts of downtown Nashville, the Gulch, Germantown, East Nashville, Madison, Donelson and Inglewood. Davis, a Democrat, is a life-long Nashvillian who graduated from MLK Magnet School and owns East Nashville Beer Works. After serving 2 terms on the Nashville Council, he said he is well-prepared for his new role: “I previously served District 7 on the Metro Council for eight…
Charles W. “Chuck’’ Cherry II of Daytona Beach, a fierce proponent of the Black Press and a longtime warrior for social justice, died on Saturday, July 15, at age 66. Chuck Cherry retired as publisher of the Daytona Times and the Florida Courier in 2020 after running the Black newspapers’ editorial operations for decades. The retired attorney also was an author, speaker, radio broadcaster and strategic business planning consultant. In 2019, he founded 623 Management, Inc., a company that focused on developing and disseminating messaging to Black America with a specific focus on understanding and reaching Florida’s Black population through…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Country singer-songwriter Brei Carter’s jovial pop-country anthem “Straight Up Country Crazy” is proving to be popular among her fans and with certain Music Row tastemakers. The song’s music video treatment rolled out today in an exclusive premiere during her Coffee, Country & Cody appearance on Circle All Access & WSM Radio. Carter teased fans with a sneak peak of the new video ahead of its official release on Saturday, July 08 at 9am CT on YouTube. The video, which is simply a good old-fashioned barn party Brei hosted with some of her friends and music…
by Craig Silverman of ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Oprah Winfrey looked upset. The photo caught her midsentence, her left hand jabbing at the camera. “They are twisting everything,” the TV icon was quoted as saying, under a red “BREAKING NEWS” banner. The ad featuring the Winfrey image and quote ran on the conservative website DC Swamp Tales. It directed readers to a webpage that resembled a news article. The text spun a narrative about a television interviewer who unfairly berated Winfrey for promoting a…