Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Sen. George Mitchell, who served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009 to 2011, will appear at Vanderbilt University on Monday, March 18. Leymah Gbowee, winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, will speak on Tuesday, March 19. Both events are part of Vanderbilt’s 2013 Impact Symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium is ‘Dimensions of Peace and Conflict.’ Barak and Mitchell will participate…
Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Dr. Mary Catherine Bateson will present ‘Living a Legacy: A Conversation Between Friends’ at Scarritt-Bennett Center on Saturday, March 16, from 6-8 pm. The women will talk about the trajectory of their lives, their friendship, their passions, and the legacy they hope to leave behind. Before assuming her current position as the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Johnnetta Betsch Cole had a long and distinguished career…
The Hermitage Branch Library celebrated Special Moments in Black History with “Embracing the Roots of African-American Music” on Feb 16, 2013. The national focus is on the theme: “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality.” Minister Lois Brown-Grady, the event sponsor and coordinator, said, “We also marked the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; and the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, DC, for Jobs and Freedom. However, on that day “we ‘Embraced the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day was Thursday, Feb. 7. According to activists, there is plenty that African Americans needed to observe. There are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, including more than 510,000 African Americans. “It has been 31 years since the Centers for Disease Control made the public aware of what HIV/AIDS is and we’re still seeing Black community disproportionately impacted,” said C. Virginia…
Many this week have acknowledged the birthday of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, an American, who was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.A. She would have been 100 years old on February 4, 2013, this past Monday. She died on October 24, 2005 at the age 92 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. This African-American female civil rights activist was called “the first lady of civil rights” by the U.S. Congress; and “the mother of the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Former Tennessee State University free safety Anthony Levine won his second Super Bowl ring in three years as the Baltimore Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday night in New Orleans. Levine was signed to the Ravens’ practice squad as a free agent on September 3, 2012. He was a part of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl winning team two years ago bringing TSU’s count…
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