By Phil McCausland and Chelsea Bailey JACKSON, MS — President Donald Trump’s 40-minute visit to the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum concluded a days-long controversy over his presence at an event that commemorated a milestone in the state’s difficult racial history. Civil rights icon John Lewis, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, as well as other noteworthy Mississippians, said they would boycott the event after the president accepted the invitation earlier. They claimed the president did not support the spirit of the new institution and would only distract from the ceremony. The growing criticism…
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By Clint Confehr NASHVILLE, TN – Among 70 groups joining a bipartisan voter registration drive Monday were Equity Alliance leaders who say they’re taking Project Register to churches. U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper and State Sen. Steve Dickerson launched Project Register at Metro’s main library to raise awareness about online voter registration in Tennessee because the state is 40th in voter registration and 50th in voter turnout. “There was a natural gasp in the room” when employees were told those numbers, Bank of America Nashville Market President Tyson Moore said as he and more than a dozen other community leaders announced…
The Nashville Branch NAACP will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, December 14, 2017, 6 PM at Spruce Street Baptist Church Merry Townsend Center, 504 Spruce Street (Rev. Raymond Bowman, Pastor). Members are invited and urged to attend to receive reports of the standing committees and to help shape the agenda for year 2018. Come out and meet the officers and other young newly appointed leaders. Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the oldest and largest civil rights organization. The Association’s Strategic Plan for the 21 Century targets six (6) game changers. Member units throughout the United States and the…
NASHVILLE, TN – Community leaders, executives from Nashville’s top employers, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper and State Sen. Steve Dickerson are announcing Project Register, a nonpartisan effort they created to raise awareness about online voter registration in Middle Tennessee. Ranked 40th in voter registration and 50th in voter turnout, Tennessee is home to more than 838,000 adults who are not registered to vote. After working together to boost Nashville high school registration rates by 85 percent in 2015, Rep. Cooper and Sen. Dickerson want to raise voter registration rates across all of Middle Tennessee, where eligible voters work, live, learn and…
NASHVILLE, TN — Hundreds of people—including family, friends, teammates and fans—gathered at Vanderbilt’s Langford Auditorium Dec. 4 for the premiere of Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace, a documentary of the late Wallace’s courage and struggles as a student-athlete breaking the color barrier in the SEC. “The film is called Triumph for a reason,” Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos said at the event. “Perry’s triumph in the classroom and out of it is a story that no one will ever forget.” Filmmaker Rich Gentile, Perry Wallace’s teammate and fellow SEC pioneer Godfrey Dillard and Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos…
Nearly half of Americans have high blood pressure under guidelines published last week, which lowered the threshold for the chronic condition. The impact was huge. Overnight, more than 30 million adults with a systolic blood pressure (the top number) of 130 to 139, or a diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) of 80 to 89, got a new diagnosis: stage 1 hypertension. That left many wondering if the change wasn’t a big conspiracy, cooked up by the pharmaceutical industry, to get more people to take a prescription drug. For others, there was just confusion. Why the change? And what should…
COLUMBIA, TN — Side two of the Columbia Public Mural Project depicting a much-beloved mule, iconic of Columbia’s nickname “Muletown”, has been completed. Atlanta-based artist Michael Colley signed his name to the wall, marking the end of his work on the two-sided mural in Columbia, Tennessee. The serpentine mural wall stands as the gateway to the new Columbia Arts District in front of Columbia Fire Station No. 1 at 1000 South Garden Street. Side one of the two-sided public mural project, completed in June by Colley, commemorates 150 years of fire service by the Columbia Fire Department. As Colley worked…
NASHVILLE, TN — A recent report from Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research (TVAR) confirmed historians’ long-held suspicions that there is a “high likelihood” of human remains still present on the property of Ft. Negley Park and the abandoned Greer Stadium. TVAR’s Interim Management Summary dated November 19, 2017, first obtained by and reported on by The Tennessean, indicates that their initial archaeological study to date is unable to rule out the existence of human remains on any area of the studied ground and, in fact, shows that the possibility exists for human remains to be found on the entire area under…
NASHVILLE, TN — A trio of former Nashville sports greats will be the guest speakers as part of the inaugural The Sports Fund Lecture Series event. Former Tennessee Titans stars Chris Sanders and Chris Hope will be joined by Vanderbilt University basketball record-setter Shan Foster for a panel discussion titled “Life After Sports: Giving Back,” scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 8 at McGugin Center on the Vanderbilt campus. Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor and Athletics Director David Williams will moderate the panel. The program will take place at the Vanderbilt Football Meeting Room at McGugin Center, 2601 Jess Neely Drive. The…
CHICAGO, IL — The building was completed in 1971 after John H. Johnson established Ebony and Jet as premiere magazines highlighting Black life and culture in America. Johnson borrowed $500 against his mothers’ furniture to start his media empire. For decades the magazines sat on millions of coffee tables in Black households across the country The vacant Johnson Publishing Company headquarters, once the home of Ebony and Jet magazines on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, has been sold for $10 million to developer 3L Real Estate, the Rosemont-based firm announced on Nov. 20 and are planning on converting this property to newly-minted…