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Tweet Photo: Daniel Meigs The White House announced Wednesday morning that Dr. James Hildreth, president of Nashville s Meharry Medical College, will join the Biden administration s 12-member Health Equity Task Force. The Harvard alum and infectious disease expert has been at the forefront of Nashville s COVID-19 response in recent months. As the President of a historically Black medical school that was founded to eradicate health disparities between majority and minority communities, this work is a focus for me and my institution, says Dr. Hildreth in a statement. I am committed to working with our national leadership to develop cohesive plans that will address these silent killers illnesses like COVID-19 that impact our most vulnerable populations at alarming rates. ....
Safe Bar Helps Hospitality Workers Notice the Warning Signs of Sexual Assault The Sexual Assault Center program is working to make public spaces in Nashville safer Tweet Bars along Lower BroadwayPhoto: Daniel Meigs When a woman walks up to a bartender and orders an “angel shot,” the bartender knows it isn’t because she wants a drink. Angel shot is code a way for someone who feels unsafe to ask for help. The bartender can then help the customer to a taxi or otherwise separate her from whomever is a potential threat, be it a Tinder date, a longtime partner or a stranger in the corner. ....
NMAAMâs Celebration of Black Art Should Be a Call to Action for Country Music The stories of co-opted Black musicians show everyone what needs to change with Music Cityâs biggest cultural export Tweet Photo: Daniel Meigs After touring the National Museum of African American Music during a pre-opening press day, I stopped Henry Beecher Hicks III, the museumâs president and CEO, on my way out the door. I smiled and told him that I loved it â that the museum exceeded every one of my expectations. As someone who fashions words into sentences and paragraphs for a living, I winced at my pitiful use of language, though it was the best I could offer at the time. When I ran into Hicks, my heart was still so full, my breath caught in my chest like a mother hearing her child say âI love youâ for the very first time. I was speechless at the care taken to present this all-important history so thoroughly; my heartbeat qui ....
The National Museum of African American Music Is Worth the Wait NMAAM invests heavily in telling the full story of Black music Tweet Photo: Daniel Meigs When word surfaced more than two decades ago that a National Museum of African American Music was being planned for Nashville, reactions ranged from quizzical to skeptical. The idea was even ridiculed in some sectors of the music journalism and criticism community, as well as among some fans, scholars and lovers of various Black musical idioms. “Nashville, not Memphis?” was one of the recurring comments I heard from colleagues. A second: “That’s not a Black music town.” A third, lesser complaint was that NMAAM wouldn’t get the publicity and recognition it deserves in a city best known as a recording and publishing hotbed of country music. ....
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