NASHVILLE. TN — For nearly 142 years, Meharry Medical College has played a significant role in the building of the state of Tennessee’s economy. Meharry Medical College, a United Methodist Church affiliated school, is the nation’s largest private, independent, historically black academic health science center. Meharry exists to improve the health and healthcare of minority and underserved communities by offering excellent education and training programs in the health sciences; with a primary focus on health disparities issues. The School of Medicine is recognized as a top producer of primary care physicians and is ranked 2nd among 141 academic health science…
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NASHVILLE, TN — Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Tillman W. Payne, III will seek the office of General Sessions Judge – Division X in the 2018 election cycle. Tillman Payne is a former public defender, businessman, and attorney for nearly 20 years. Tillman Payne recently spoke at the Davidson County Democratic Party event, A Better Deal for Nashville Rally: “I’ve been practicing law almost 20 years and during part of that time I was an assistant public defender. The inability to pay fines and court costs should not dictate the quality of justice a person receives. We need to help…
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…
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…