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People Are Talking Titans face Jaguars for AFC South Title on Saturday

The Titans will face the Jaguars for the AFC South Title on Saturday at 7:15 pm, CST, on ESPN/ABC. The Tennessee Titans’ AFC South showdown with the Jacksonville Jaguars is scheduled for 7:15 pm, CST, on Saturday, January 7.

The game, which will be played at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, will be aired on ESPN/ABC. The Titans enter the contest with a 7-9 record, while the Jaguars enter the contest with a mark of 8-8.

The winner of the game will win the AFC South.

The Jaguars beat the Titans 3622 at Nissan Stadium back on December 11.

University of Iowa wins Music City Bowl, Vols win Orange bowl

Tennessee (11-2, 6-2 SEC) defeated #seven Clemson (113, 8-0 ACC), 31-14, in the Capital One Orange Bowl.

The University of Iowa football team defeated Kentucky, 210, at the TransPerfect Music City Bowl at Nissan Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Redshirt freshman Joe Labas was 14-for-24 for 139 yards and a touchdown in his first career start for the Hawkeyes.

Senior tight end Sam LaPorta had five receptions for 56 yards, and sophomore Luke Lachey had three catches for 36 yards and a touchdown.

Defensively, senior linebacker Jack Campbell had 10 tackles (eight solo) and a sack.

Freshman Xavier Nwankpa had eight tackles (seven solo) and an interception returned for a touchdown. Sophomore Cooper DeJean also had an interception returned for a touchdown.

“Just really happy for our guys. Especially our seniors.

What a way to send them off. It’s been a great group, and I can’t thank them enough for all they’ve done,” said Hawkeyes Coach Kirk Ferentz.

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New Tennessee laws for the new year With the start of 2023, several new laws have gone into effect. Those laws cover abortion, foster care, training for security guards, and the tax free purchase of agricultural items for farmers.

HB 2416 was passed prior to Roe v. Wade being struck down and prohibits the mailing of “abortion-inducing pills.” The law requires physicians to examine a patient in-person prior to providing an abortion-inducing drug and conduct a follow-up visit between seven and 14 days after the procedure.

A physician who disregards these rules could be charged with a felony and face up to 20 years in prison.

HB 2398 expands foster care services for youth between the ages of 18 and 21 years who are transitioning to adulthood from state custody. It allows youth to remain enrolled in foster care to receive extended services as well as pays reimbursement to eligible relative caregivers to support the cost of raising the child.

According to Sen. Page Walley who co-sponsored the bill: “This legislation will help keep foster kids in families without them coming into state custody and experiencing the trauma that can occur. I believe this legislation is a step in the right direction for our kids, our families and our state.”

SB 2514, known as “Dallas’ Law” (named for the late Dallas Barrett), creates greater protections for citizens by raising the training standards

New laws for 2023 are now in effect. required of all security guards Broadway area. employed in establishments where The law requires security guards to alcohol is served. Barrett died in 2021 complete additional training in after an altercation with security Continued on page 5 guards in a bar in Nashville's Lower

The music world mourns three magnificent musicians

(l-r) The Pointer Sisters (l-r) Ruth, Anita and Bonnie. performing on Dutch television in 1974.

By Cass Teague Over the past few weeks the music world has been rocked by the loss of three very talented African American contributors. They include a singer, a drummer, and a producer who all

influenced popular music, primarily in the 1970s and 1980s.

Fred White (January 13, 1955 – January 1, 2023) was a child drumming prodigy. Fred was one of the members to join the group founded by

his older brothers Maurice and Verdine. Fred’s death was announced on Instagram by Verdine White, who did not give a cause.

“Our family is saddened today with the loss of an amazing and talented family member, our beloved brother Frederick Eugene ‘Freddie’ White,” Verdine wrote. As well as his drumming success, White was a wonderful brother who was “always entertaining and delightfully mischievous,” he added. Verdine said his “amazing and talented” sibling was now “drumming with the angels.”

White began drumming at nine years old, and before officially joining Earth, Wind & Fire, Fred White toured and played drums as a child for Donny Hathaway, playing drums and providing backing vocals on the 1972 album “Donny Hathaway Live,” recorded August 24 – 30, 1971, when he was just 16. In 1974, he joined Earth Wind & Fire, whose best-known hits include “September” and “Boogie Wonderland.”

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Nashville prepares for Martin Luther King commemorative activities

By Cass Teague Martin Luther King Day for the year 2023 is celebrated / observed on Monday, January 16th. Martin Luther King Day also called MLK Day, King Day, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Day is observed on the third Monday of January, which is close to King's actual birthday on January 15.

The complete itinerary for the Martin Luther King Weekend, including Monday’s Convocation with keynote Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, will be featured in the Friday, January 13, edition of the PRIDE. Leading up to the weekend are events you should know about now.

The Nashville MLK Day March and Convocation have been organized by the Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship since 1989. This year’s theme is “Protecting the Dream: Confronting the Assaults.” More info at https://mlkdaynashville.com/ Tuesday, January 10, the free MLK Intergenerational Panel is 6:00 pm — 8:00pm at First Baptist Church Capitol Hill. The Moderator is Beverly Watts, and Panelists Andriane Gott (Davidson Academy & Mayor’s Youth Council), Jovante Mahone (TN NAACP Youth

The Inaugural IMF MLK Day Black Tie Gala is Thursday, January 12 & College), and Rev. Aaron Marble Gala, Thursday, January 12, at 6:00 (Pastor- Jefferson Street Baptist pm, at Meharry’s Cal Turner Center, Church Event) will dive into how we benefits the IMF education fund.

Protect The Dream of Dr. Martin This fund is designed to directly Luther King, Jr. Continued on page 5 The inaugural MLK Day Black Tie

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Record number sign up for Obamacare during 2022

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent President Joe Biden said he promised to lower costs for families and ensure that all Americans have access to quality affordable health care.

On Dec. 27, the president proclaimed that he’d delivered on that promise.

A record number of people (nearly 11.5 million) signed up for insurance on <HealthCare. gov>, about 1.8 million more and an 18% increase over last year.

With enrollment remaining open through Jan. 15, and not counting those who signed up for coverage through their state marketplaces, Biden said gains like those have helped to drive down the uninsured rate to eight percent, the lowest level in U.S. history.

“In recent days, we received further proof that our efforts are delivering record results and bringing families the peace of mind that comes with health insur-

ance,” the president stated. “Right now, four out of five people who sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act can find health care coverage for $10 a month or less.

These lower rates were set to expire at the end of this year, but thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, we were able to extend them and save millions of Americans on Obamacare an average of $800 a year.”

The Biden administration noted that, on Jan. 1, Americans will see the benefits of additional cost-saving measures because of the Inflation Reduction Act. That includes seniors realizing a month’s supply of insulin capped at $35, Medicare beneficiaries paying $0 out of pocket for recommended adult vaccines covered by their Part D plan, and prescription drug companies needing to pay Medicare a rebate if they try to raise their prices faster than inflation for drugs administered at a doctor’s office.

A record number of people (nearly 11.5 million) signed up for insurance on HealthCare.gov, about 1.8 million more and an 18% increase over last year.

“We’re not finished continues to encourage up for health care for the <HealthCare.gov> by working to make health individuals to visit coming year.

Jan. 15 to take advantage care a right, not a privi- <HealthCare.gov> by The administration of lower rates and sign lege,” Biden said.

Jan. 15 to take advantage continues to encourage up for health care for the The administration of lower rates and sign individuals to visit coming year.

Maryland Democratic Rep. Raskin has ‘serious’ cancer diagnosis

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin announced that he would begin treatment for large B cell lymphoma.

Raskin, 60, has served in the U.S. Congress, representing Maryland’s 8th district since 2017.

The District of Columbia native previously served in the Maryland State Senate for two terms beginning in 2007.

He insisted that his condition was “serious but curable.”

The American Cancer Society describes large B cell lymphoma as cancer that “tends to grow quickly.”

Aggressive chemotherapy may cure this kind of cancer in about half of all patients. Still, doctors stress that it depends on factors, including when physi-

Rep. Jamie Raskin cians initially diagnose the disease.

“After several days of tests, I have been diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma, which is a serious but curable form of cancer,” Raskin announced in a statement issued by his office.

“I am about to embark on a course of chemo-immunotherapy on an outpatient basis at Med Star Georgetown University Hospital and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The

prognosis for most people in my situation is excellent after four months of treatment.”

Raskin, who acted as lead impeachment manager during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in 2021, also serves on the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The committee this month referred charges against Trump to the Department of Justice.

“I plan to get through this and, in the meantime, to keep making progress every day in Congress for American democracy,” Raskin said.

“I [expect] to be able to work through this period but have been cautioned by my doctors to reduce unnecessary exposure to avoid COVID-19, the flu, and other viruses.”

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by Wanda Clay The new year of 2023 began at Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church with the sermon ‘Remember Me.’ Guest speaker Rev. Stoney Butler said: “It’s good to be remembered.” During, hopefully, the final stages of his journey, Rev. Enoch Fuzz wanted to remember and give thanks to his doctor, Dr. El Kadmera.

Since his journey with stage four lung cancer began, he has had a plethora of doctors for an array of issues involving his health in this journey.

Pastor Fuzz refers to Dr. El Kadmera as: “The doctor that saved his life. Even though Dr. El Kadmera will always insist that God is the healer, I'm quick to admonish him that the earthly doctors are God's tools or instruments.” Dr. El Kadmera is an oncologist and has been the doctor

Rev. Enoch Fuzz Rev. Fuzz has trusted to help him overcome his diagnosis of stage four lung cancer. Rev. Fuzz says that General Hospital and his doctor are the best in Nashville. “This man knows what he's doing and it's because of him that I'm gonna live to see my grandson grow up,” said the grateful Rev. Fuzz.

“Dr. El Kadmera often enquires, ‘How is your daughter, Bethani, and the baby E.J. doing?’ I'm left deeply impressed that my oncologist knows

and has concerns for his patient's family,” said Rev. Fuzz.

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Yet he still continues to recognize and appreciate those who take care of him on a daily basis, as well as with all health concerns. It is, indeed, ‘good to be remembered.’

It has always been a priority of Rev. Fuzz that people should pray. He wants prayer for himself, but also prayer for the entire world—just as he prays.

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TDMhSAS sets $15 million in permanent supportive housing investments Funding available for competitive grant application through Creating Homes Initiative Tennessee The Department of Mental Health and Substance Services Abuse (TDMHSAS) is accepting applications for about $15 million in state funding to create affordable, permanent supportive housing for Tennesseans living with behavioral health challenges. funding is The spread across three programs under the Creating Homes Initiative (CHI). In the last 22 years, CHI has leveraged more than $992 million in state, federal, local, foundational, and other funding sources to create more than 32,000 housing opportunities in Tennessee.

CHI began in 2000 under the leadership of now Commissioner Marie Williams as a program to house people living with mental illness.

With support and new funding from Gov. Bill Lee and the Tennessee General Assembly, CHI expanded in recent years with new programs to support people in recovery from addiction and re-entering communities from prison or jail.

“When you pair safe, quality, affordable housing with the wraparound supports available

through these programs, people can begin a journey to a new life. It’s something we’ve seen countless times over the last two-plus decades of the Creating Homes Initiative,” said TDMHCommissioner SAS Marie Williams, LCSW. “We’re so grateful to Gov. Lee and the legislature for their support, and we’re excited to see how this newest round of grantees leverages this funding to change the lives of the people they serve.” through Funding CHI is issued to grantees to develop safe, quality and affordable permanent supportive housing opportunities in the communities they serve.

The model also includes regional experts in the field who work with agencies to seek external funding from federal and local government sources as well as foundations and other non-profits.

Prospective applicants can find more information on the department’s funding opportunities page at: TN.gov/behavioralhealth/department-funding-opportunities.

“CHI works because collaboration. of Whether it’s our Regional Housing Facilitators working with agencies to help write grants, our partners community leveraging state funding, or our amazing team at the department making sure that every last dollar goes to the highest and best cause, collaboration is at the heart of what we do,” said Neru TDMHSAS Gobin, director of Housing and Homeless Services. “At the end of the day, we know this is having an exponential and generational impact for the people and families who are touched.”

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TSU gets major boost with infrastructure needs, research, increased federal aid

by Emmanuel Freeman Tennessee State University students and those enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country will see an increase in Pell grants.

Eligible students will receive an additional $500 as a part of the $1.7 trillion 2022 Omnibus Bill unveiled by congressional leaders. The final funding bill of the also includes year increased funding for research and infrastructure for HBCUs. This is a major boost for TSU as the university undertakes several improvement capital projects, as well as efforts to achieve an R1 Carnegie research designation.

“We are thankful to Congresswoman Alma Adams, members of the Black Congressional Caucus, the White House, and all others who were instrumental in getting this legislation passed,” said Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover.

Included in the funding are several programs that will benefit TSU: $50 million for HBCU, TCU, and MSI Research and Development Infrastructure Grants, a program originally included in the IGNITE HBCU Excellence Act. “I am proud to have secured significant wins for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the federal omnibus for Fiscal Year 2023,” said U.S. Rep. (D-N.C.), Adams founder/co-chair of the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus.

“These planning and implementation grants are designed to promote

TSU President Glenda Glover transformational investments in research infrastructure at four-year HBCUs, TCUs, and other MSIs.” Glover, who also serves as the vice chair of President Joe Biden’s Advisory Board on HBCUs, added that the funding aligns with TSU’s plans for longterm growth and sustainability.

“I am pleased to have helped with advocating to lawmakers and others the importance of the bill that makes HBCUs stronger and helps our institutions continue the work of strengthening

our communities by providing a quality education to our students,” Glover said.

“We currently have major capital infrastructure projects and increased research activities underway, This bill will provide additional resources to assist TSU in successfully reaching our goals of enhancing and upgrading our camfootprint and pus becoming an R1 research institution.”

TSU is in the middle of a major facelift to academic buildings, improvements to outdoor lightings and interior décor as part of a campus-wide infrastructure upgrade initiative that is expected to last through 2023.

The increase in Pell grant awards is the largest since the 2009-10 school year. Approximately 65% of TSU students depend on some type of financial aid, including the Pell grant.

Nationally, about seven million students, many from lower-income families, receive Pell grants Continued on page 5

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by William T. Robinson, Jr. What does it take for some people to learn their lesson? Donald Trump has announced that he is running for president in 2024. I guess diehard Trump supporters who worship him are ecstatic, but the majority of Americans are insulted and in disbelief that this man refuses to go away or bow down to defeat. How arrogant of him to run for president when most with decent standards feel he should be in someone’s prison. He has made a mockery of everything we were taught to be decent and respectable.

He is the poster child for corruption, lies, and racism. However, his sycophants continue to rationalize and make excuses for him. Let go!

‘The devil is a liar and the truth is not in him’ should be their mantra.

The only reason Trump’s base is so sup-

portive of him is that they can personally identify with his unscrupulous actions. He is their mouthpiece and says things they want to say but are too afraid. That is nothing to be proud of or to brag about. While you may agree with his political platform, he represents the worst this country has to offer. He is a cancer to the Republican Party, decimating their credibility as the party of morality and family values.

Rational Republicans are looking for more reputable candidates to represent them or are deserting the Republican party altogether. If it isn’t obvious to you that Donald Trump is only for Donald Trump then you are blind or oblivious to the truth. Just how many times can a person show us who he truly is? In all honesty, do you think the average American could get away with as much

as Donald Trump and not be ostracized or put in prison? He has made a mockery of our judicial legal system and thus far shown us that a man can, indeed, be above the law.

Remember these facts: Trump University was dissolved when found guilty of fraud; Trump has at least 26 allegations of sexual improprieties; Trump has insulted women, minorities, and the disabled; he has lied about COVID-19 (contributing to hundreds of thousands of deaths); he has consistently lied to the public; he has declared the 2020 Presidential Election as fraudulent; he has lead an insurrection to discredit the democratic transfer of power; he has harbored top secret information in his home.

Give us break! There are those serving time for much less and he has the audacity to run for president. Evidently, he has no respect for the aver-

age citizen, thinking we are just plain out stupid.

You would think if Trump had any sense of decency, he would show some signs of humility, lay low, and manifest some repentance for his past actions. But he continues to flaunt indifference and disunity by dinning with Kanye West with his alleged anti Semitic rants; and Nick Fuentes, a well known White nationalist at his home, Mar-a-Lago.

It is quite apparent to most African Americans and people of color that Trump represents the voice of White supremacy. He fuels their desire to make America great again, reminiscent of a time when Blacks and other groups were subjuand White gated supremacy reigned.

Americans should be serious and end this circus attraction that seems to find satisfaction in devouring all the virtues

we used to hold dear. But again, maybe America is trying to show us we have much needed work to be done to make this the America that is suppose to work for all of us.

Perhaps the saddest part of this debacle is that we have a Republican controlled House of Representatives that has emphatically expressed a desire to do everything possible to help exonerate Trump or play off allegations unlawful against what we all know is a bonafide crook. As a result, Congress will encounter a deadlock. Very little if anything by the Democratic controlled Senate will be supported or passed by the Republican controlled House. A lot of good legislation that can truly benefit the country will be lost.

As it stands now, Trump will probably be indicted by the DOJ (Department of Justice)

William T. Robinson, Jr. on criminal charges in his efforts to reverse the 2020 election results by orchestrating an insurrection. You can look for Trump to throw his key advisors or conspirators under the bus as they tarry to seek plea bargains.

Trump’s influence (although waning) knows no bounds when it comes to some of our Republican elected officials who should know better. Trump will not personally go away. It will be up to this country to show him to his exit.

One may conclude that it’s not Trump we should worry about—but those who support him.

The King holiday reflects our resilience

by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.c om) – Just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the inveterate warrior, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), introduced legislation to make his birthday a federal holiday. It took 15 years, hundreds of protests, a song, and a tour to make Dr. King's birthday a holiday. Stevie Wonder's lyrics, first debuted in his 1980 ‘Hotter Than July.’ His songs encouraged activists to keep pushing for the holiday after being repeatedly rebuffed. The Conyers legislation passed the House of Representatives 338-90 with much opposition from conservative White Southerners (primarily Republicans), speciously claiming that the holiday cost too much money.

On the Senate side, the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Ed Brooke

Julianne Malveaux (R-Mass.), passed 7822. The process was far from smooth, though.

Then North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms (RN.C.) passed out binders full of scurrilous lies about Dr. King, describing him as a communist and worse. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was so outraged that he described the information as “filth” and physically stomped on it. then-President Still, Ronald Reagan signed the legislation in 1983. It has been 40 years since the bill was passed, and

we ought to celebrate.

This legislation was only passed because of Black people's resilience and persistence. These might be metaphoric for the struggle we must continue to wage. One of the ways we continue to struggle is to ensure that everyone who sings the ‘Black Birthday Song’ realizes that the song is a tribute to Dr. King and was part of the struggle that was waged to make his birthday a national holiday.

Many states refused to embrace the national King holiday. Indeed, it was not until 2000, 17 years after the federal legislation passed, that all 50 states had some form of a King holiday.

Arizona was the last, and they paid for their resistance. The National Football League moved the 1995 Super Bowl from Phoenix to Los Angeles when Arizona refused to recognize the holiday. Several, including Rev. Jesse Jackson,

Ready for our earth shot

by Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire) – As we greet 2023, I’m feeling more than the typical seasonal optimism. America is primed once again for a historic achievement.

Call it our ‘Earth shot.’

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the United States spent the current dollar equivalent of just under $300 billion on “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth” as President Kennedy proposed in 1961. Ever since, that combination of aspiration and expenditure has made us call any wellfinanced goal that seems improbable, if not impossible, a ‘moonshot.’

President Biden and Congress committed almost $700 billion in the next 10 years to reducing pollution, particularly in marginalized communities most likely to suffer, and to making the transportation and energy sectors cleaner to preserve the climate.

We need to appreciate the investment to save our fragile planet made in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act as our Earth shot.

This is a moment of unprecedented opportunity to combat the climate crisis, lessen the impact of environmental decay in communities that unfairly bear its brunt, and build a cleaner economy.

We need to come together to seize it. It’s a moment long awaited by people of color in particular, who always have been strong voices for environmental protection and who have been the most demanding of political leaders on these issues at the ballot box.

What’s behind this

optimistic outlook?

First, the landmark investment since 2021 moves us beyond the point of simply imagining what could be done to handing us the tools to build what it will take to avert climate catastrophe and environmental decay. It’s up to us now to take up those tools and get to work.

We can accelerate the arrival of a green economy. We can rebuild our manufacturing sector, not just our roads and bridges. We can create good jobs for people who need them and have struggled to find them. And we can do it all at once. In fact, we must do it all at once.

Second, that historic investment comes at a particularly opportune moment for changing the course of our climate and environment.

It’s a moment when innovation is matching our resolve to make change. From batteries to LED lights to energy production, we have better, cleaner options across the economy.

This intersection of investment and innovation means we can move past the old ‘either-or’ thinking that has held us back for too long, the mistaken notion that the only way to have a flourishing economy is to force some people in some places to pay the cost of prosperity. The new reality of this time is that we can have thriving businesses and good jobs without sacrificing the planet. Getting to the moon led to everything from the silicon chip to more PhDs in science and engineering. Our Earth shot can have the same spillover effect.

While the federal government has set the stage for unprecedented progress, the work of implementation will

Ben Jealous play out in every state and community. There were no corporate lobbyists fighting to keep the Apollo rockets grounded, but we can expect fights everywhere to divert investment in a cleaner environment or to minimize its impact. We need to match those opponents in statehouses and city halls with our people power. Environmental, labor and civil rights advocates need to come together as all our interests align in this cause.

As we close out this holiday season, let’s give ourselves the gift of belief. Let’s believe that we can do this, we can save the planet.

Let’s believe that we can figure out tough challenges that our inspiration has yet to crack.

And let’s believe we can move beyond old, harmful patterns of division and discrimination to ensure everyone enjoys a livable planet.

Happy New Year.

(Ben Jealous is incoming executive director of the Sierra Club, America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, and professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania.

A New York Times best-selling author, his next book Never Forget Our People Were Always Free will be published by Harper Collins in January.)

boycotted the state and canceled events scheduled there.

Even today, several Southern states, including Alabama and Mississippi, attempt to weaken the meaning of the King holiday by naming it the King-Lee holiday, forcing those who celebrate the King holiday to also implicitly recognize the traitor Confederate Robert E. Lee. Utah described January 15 as Human Rights Day rather than Dr. King's birthday. It was not until 2000 that Utah became one of the last states to make Dr. King’s birthday a state holiday.

Why the resistance?

Ignorance, arrogance, Caucasity, and racial hatred. And before anyone suggest that Caucasity isn’t a word that appears in Webster’s dictionary, you don’t need a dictionary to know that Caucasity is the racist behavior of some Caucasians. In addition to attempting to

chip away at King's legacy with their resistance to racial justice, Virginia had the audacity to couple the King birthday with those of Jefferson Davis and Jackson, Stonewall another Confederate traitor. And Mississippi officially celebrates Confederate Heritage Month in April. Other states recognize the month, but there is no official celebration, although four states celebrate Confederate Memorial Day at the end of April or early May. Confederates and their descendants spend lots of time and energy propagating lies. They persistently believe they won the Civil War, although honest history says otherwise. They continue to chip away at the civil rights legacy, not just with words and Confederate holidays, but with voter suppression that taints too many of our elections. The response to the fiction

they continue to spin is our resilience and persistence in the face of their warped fantasies.

We must continue to sing the ‘Black Birthday Song’ joyously because joy is a form of resistance. But we must sign it in its historical context.

Whether we are singing for Big Mama or a newborn baby, we must never sing Stevie Wonder's ‘Happy Birthday’ without thinking about speaking about Dr. King.

The song is a tribute to our resilience and our history. Thank you, Stevie Wonder, John Conyers, Edward Bush, Coretta Scott King, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Dorothy Height, and many other activists for persistence in making Dr. King’s birthday a holiday and for gifting us with the Black Birthday song, a constant reminder of Dr. King’s sacrifice and contribution.

Wake up and stay woke: It’s always time for justice!

By Dr. E. Faye Williams Aug. 28, 1955, was many lifetimes ago, but, in the evolution of this country, it seems like the blink of an eye.

Irrefutably, the racism that is pervasive now was even more pervasive, brutal and accepted as a socio/cultural norm by oppressor and victim alike then. Aug. 28, 1955 was the day that 14-yearold Emmett Till, an African American youth from Chicago visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, was murdered.

His murder was most heinous. He was abducted at gunpoint from his uncle’s home, beaten beyond recognition. He was then shot to death and unceremoniously pitched into the Tallahatchie River with a large fan tied to his body to keep him sub-merged.

His assailants were Roy Bryant, Carolyn Bryant’s husband, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam.

Emmett’s offense? He allegedly whistled at a white woman!

Later Bryant and Milam were acquitted by an all-white jury which, unbelievably, deliberated for only 65 minutes!

After acquittal, they bragged about committing the murder. Even later, it was discovered that Carolyn Bryant lied about the circumstances that sent her husband and brother-in-law into a murderous rampage.

We now know that an unserved warrant for kidnapping was issued in 1955 for Carolyn Bryant. Her maternal responsibilities for her children were deemed more significant than her complicity in murder.

The deaths of her hus-

Dr. E. Faye Williams band and brother-in-law left her only living participant in that conspiratorial triad.

As more incriminating facts became known, Carolyn Bryant moved around the country.

There is no complete record of her residences after leaving Mississippi, but it is known that she fled to Bowling Green, Kentucky, to live with her son. From Dec. 3-5, 2022, I visited Bowling Green for a rally to put focus for the murder of Emmett Till back on Carolyn Bryant, and on the radar of the United States Justice Department and the national conscience, where it rightly belongs.

A group of us, including Nia 2X, attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz and John C. Barnett went to Kentucky to hold a rally at the address where Carolyn Bryant purportedly now lives. The morning of our rally, we awoke to a credible threat against rally participants. We gave thought to personal security, but, considering the gravity of our efforts, soldiered on.

It seemed like every local police officer was assigned to secure Carolyn Bryant’s home and to protect the guilty party! There were more police than there were of us!

Arriving at the site, I thought about Ida B. Wells in the 1890s enduring the dangers of working for ending the lynching of Black people. Over 130 years later and 67 years since 1955, we must still seek justice for Emmett’s murder.

In 2009, Dick Gregory, Janet Langhart Cohen, Mark Planning and I worked diligently for a simple apology from the United States Senate for never having apologized for this dastardly crime. After much effort, we were successful.

Notwithstanding, it was another 13 years before the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching law criminalized lynching!

Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, demonstrated her immense courage by allowing the world to see the horrors of racism by allowing the full display of her son’s body.

Her faith in securing justice never wavered, but she died without realizing justice for the kidnapping and murder of her only child.

Since Aug. 28, 1955, while Emmett lay cold and dead, and Mamie suffered from loss that only a mother could know, Carolyn Bryant has lived an unmolested existence provided by a racist justice system and a social structure willing to ignore the horrors perpetrated against African Americans.

The president and Congress must advocate for the justice denied to Mamie Till-Mobley. The Department of Justice must serve the warrant on Carolyn Bryant to begin the overdue process of attaining justice.

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'human error' helped spur wrong ballots in Nashville (AP) — Nashville election officials made erroneous updates to voter lists for last month's election and failed to follow steps to make sure they were accurate, leading more than 430 Tennessee voters to cast ballots in the wrong races, the state's elections coordinator determined in a review released last week.

A report by state Elections Coordinator Mark Goins cited "human error" as a main cause of the problem in Nashville. The Davidson County Election Commission confirmed in the report that more than 3,000 voters were assigned to one or more of the incorrect districts.

Hundreds cast wrong ballots before the issue was flagged.

The contests affected included state legislative races and congressional races, in which Republican state lawmakers had just carved the left-lean-

ing city three ways during once-a-decade redistricting early this year, cutting in and out of some neighborhoods.

Republicans ultimately succeeded in their mapdrawing push to flip a Democratic seat, contributing to the GOP takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The report determined that none of the errors were egregious enough to affect any of the races in which erroneous ballots were cast.

Goins' report says the root cause of the issues was that Nashville election officials made updates to voter files after the city's IT GIS division had used geocoding, a computerized process to compare voter addresses to new district boundaries.

Geocoding can be done multiple times in the process, the report says, and the commission did not verify its changes

through a final round of geocoding by the IT GIS division, which a commission staff member declined to have done in March after election officials had made thousands more manual edits.

During the early voting period for the Nov. 8 election, The Associated Press first reported Nov. 1 that Nashville voters were being given ballots for incorrect congressional and statehouse races, leading officials to scramble to fix voters' districts. Trying to correct the problem under a tight timeframe as early voting wrapped up on Nov. 3 led to over-corrections, the report states.

The mistakes spurred a lawsuit, which ended in an agreement with elections officials that allowed people who voted in the incorrect district to cast a provisional ballot, but it would only be opened if

an election was contested. Paper ballots were also available for people who showed up at the polls and thought their voting machine ballot was wrong.

The errors rekindled anger from critics in the city, including Democrats, over how Republicans redrew the congressional map.

On Election Day, 117 of the 437 voters identified as voting in a wrong race during early voting showed up to vote on a provisional ballot, the report states.

The report doesn't dive into the prospect of incorrect district assignments during the primary election in August, which occurred before the mapping errors were identified.

Goins recommended that counties with their own GIS resources should use them to validate their data, but they should also have them validated by the state

comptroller's geocoding to promote uniform results.

"The issues in Davidson County were the unfortunate combination of human error and failure to follow all steps to ensure changes were made accurately," Goins wrote. "I am confident that through the election commission's continued work with Metro IT Services, as well as assistance from the Comptroller's office, they can prevent similar issues in future elections."

The report also shows how intricately the lines were drawn during redistricting, as political districts at times split voting precincts and divided one apartment complex. Local election officials indicated they would need to go physically to some places to figure out someone's correct district, the report says.

Communication iss-

ues were also noted. For instance, a map that the city IT GIS department sent to local election officials made it hard to see where Congressional District 7 was marked and switched the labeling within sections of a precinct from what local election officials previously used. That left 1,029 voters in wrong districts in one precinct, the report says.

One local election staffer admitted it was his error in making manual edits in another precinct to "to clean up splits with small populations," which the report says resulted in 1,544 wrongly assigned voters.

In Nashville, only four local election commission workers primarily worked on the redistricting process, the report says.

"The standard throughout the process should be that if you are in doubt, seek more guidance," Goins wrote.

International soccer Musicians... from page 1 icon Pelé dies at 82

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Pelé, the international star who was instrumental in three World Cup championships with Brazil across three decades and who energized U.S. soccer with the New York Cosmos in the 1970s, has died.

The 82-year-old legend had been hospitalized since November, and his doctors reported that Pelé’s cancer had advanced, requiring care related to renal and cardiac dysfunction.

He has been receiving regular treatment since doctors removed a tumor from his colon in 2021.

“Father. My strength is yours,” the international star’s son, Edinho, posted on social media.

Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento in Três Corações, Brazil, on Oct. 23, 1940, Pelé became soccer’s first superstar.

He led the Brazilian national teams to World Cup glory in 1958, 1962, and 1970.

In 1956, he joined the Santos Football Club, where he played inside left forward, winning nine São Paulo league championships and, in 1962 and 1963, the Libertadores Cup and the Intercontinental Club Cup. Sometimes called “Pérola Negra” (“Black Pearl”), Pelé became a Brazilian national hero.

According to Britannica, he combined kicking power and accuracy with a remarkable ability to anticipate other players’ moves.

“After the 1958 World Cup, Pelé was declared a national treasure by the Brazilian government to ward off large offers from European clubs and ensure that he would remain in Brazil,” Britannica researchers

Pelé wrote. to claim Brazil’s third On Nov. 19, 1969, in title and permanent his 909th first-class ownership of the Jules match, he scored his Rimet Trophy. Pelé fin1,000th goal. ished his World Cup Pelé made his inter- career, scoring 12 goals national debut in 1957 at in 14 games. age 16 and played his Pelé’s electrifying first game in the World play and penchant for Cup finals in Sweden the spectacular goals made following year. him a worldwide star.

The Brazilian manHis team Santos ager was initially hesi- toured internationally to tant to play his young take full advantage of star. But, according to his popularity. For Britannica, when Pelé example, in 1967, he and finally reached the field, his team traveled to he had an immediate Nigeria, where a 48impact, rattling the post hour cease-fire in that with one shot and col- nation’s civil war was lecting an assist. called to allow all to He had a hat trick in watch the great player. the semifinal against Pelé announced his France and two goals in retirement in 1974 but, the championship game, in 1975, agreed to a where Brazil defeated three-year $7 million Sweden 5–2. At the contract with the New 1962 World Cup finals, York Cosmos of the Pelé tore a thigh muscle North American Soccer in the second match and League and to promote had to sit out the remain- the game in the United der of the tournament.

States. He retired after Nonetheless, Brazil leading the Cosmos to went on to claim its sec- the league championship ond World Cup title. in 1977.

Researchers said Pelé was the recipirough play and injuries ent of the International turned the 1966 World Peace Award in 1978. In Cup into a disaster for 1980 he was named Brazil and Pelé, as the Athlete of the Century team went out in the first by the French sports round, and he contem- publication L’Equipe, plated retiring from and he received the same World Cup play. honor in 1999 from the Returning in 1970 International Olympic for one more World Cup Committee. tournament, he teamed In 2014 the Pelé with young stars Museum opened in Jairzinho and Rivelino Santos, Brazil.

Tennessee laws... from page 1 de-escalation, safe restraint, first aid, and CPR. Other laws include allowing farmers and nurseries to purchase building material, fencing material, warranties, and other agricultural

materials tax free; human trafficking training for the Department of Correction, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; as well as allowing homeowners to file a written request to

the property assessor to have their first and last name appear as ‘unlisted’ in the ownership field of online databases. On January 10, the 113th Tennessee General Assembly will convene.

TSU... from page 3 every year to help them afford college.

Terrance Izzard, TSU’s associate vice president for Enrollment Management and Student Success, echoed President Glover’s sentiments that the

boost in funding for Pell grant award will help financially struggling students stay in school.

“Coming out of a pandemic, along with tough economic times, this increase in funding could not have come at

a better time for parents and students,” Izzard said. “This certainly is big relief and lessens the added burden of students trying to achieve their educational goals amid high cost of tuition and other needs.”

A year later, the group shot to global fame with its triple platinum album “That's the Way of the World,” which featured the iconic ballad “Reasons.”

The funk and soul group became one of the best-selling music groups of all time, with more than 90 million records sold worldwide.

Over the years the group won six Grammys and four American Music Awards, as well as entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and gaining a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Anita Marie Pointer (January 23, 1948 December 31, 2022) was a member of the group

The Pointer Sisters, along with her sisters June, Ruth, and Bonnie.

Anita co-wrote and was the lead singer on their hit song “Fairytale,” which garnered them their first Grammy Award in 1975. The group had 13 US top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.

Anita Pointer was the lead singer on many of their hits, including “Yes We Can Can,” “Fire,” “Slow Hand,” and “I'm So Excited.” The group's other U.S. top 10 hits are “Fire” (1979), “He's So Shy” (1980), “Slow Hand” (1981), the remixed version of “I'm So Excited” (1984), and

“Neutron Dance” (1985). They won two more Grammys, in 1984, for the top 10 hits “Automatic” and “Jump (For My Love).”

Thomas Randolph Bell (January 26, 1943 – December 22, 2022) was a singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, pianist, and composer. Thom Bell is best known as one of the architects of “Philly Soul” in the 1970s, as a producer and songwriter for the Delfonics, Stylistics, and Spinners.

In 2016, Thom Bell was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, in a ceremony he attended right here in Nashville, Tennessee.

Iowa, Vols win... from page 1 The Hawkeyes opened the scoring with 12:08 remaining in the second quarter. Back-toback completions from Joe Labas to Sam LaPorta and Luke Lachey were all it took for Iowa to find the end zone.

The Hawkeyes went 42 yards on the two completions with Lachey scoring on a 15yard reception.

On the first play of Kentucky’s next drive, freshman Xavier Nwankpa recorded his first career interception and took it 52-yards for the Hawkeye score.

With Kentucky backed up on the sevenyard line Cooper DeJean

intercepted a pass and returned it 14 yards for Iowa’s second pick six of the game with 1:36 remaining in the first half.

On Friday, the sixthranked Tennessee Volunteers emphatically punctuated a memorable 2022 campaign with a New Year's bowl victory, taking down #seven Clemson 31-14 in the Capital One Orange Bowl at Hard Rock Stadium.

In his second year at the helm of Tennessee football, Head Coach Josh Heupel guided the Vols (11-2) to their ninth 11-win season in program history and first

since 2001. Friday's result marked Tennessee's first victory in a ‘New Year's Six Bowl’ game (2014-22) and first win in the Orange Bowl since defeating Oklahoma in 1939.

Playing 80 miles from his hometown of Pahokee, Florida, quarterback Joe Milton III shined under the bright lights in his fourth start for the Vols.

The redshirt senior completed 19-of-28 passes for 251 yards and a career-high tying three touchdowns with no interceptions. He was named the 2022 Capital One Orange Bowl’s Most Valuable Player.

MLK Day... from page 1 support students with the financial burdens that come with higher education. Seeing the growth of students matriculating to HBCUs, IMF is being intentional about helping our students have a chance to earn their degree by providing scholarships to those attending local HBCUs. Tickets are $150.

Friday morning, February 13 at 8:00 a.m. the Labor & Human Rights Breakfast, FREE, is at Laskey Hall on the Scarritt Bennett Center Campus.

Monday, January 9, tickets (“Pay-What-YouCan”) will become available for the 29th annual Let Freedom Sing concert. Joined by special guests, the Nashville Symphony,

Celebration Chorus and Celebration Youth Chorus perform an inspiring selection of classical works, songs, traditionals and more. Monday, January 16, at 7:00 pm in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Get tickets at: https://www. nashvillesymphony.org/ The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) in Atlanta, presents “Unconscious Bias: Understanding, Unpacking & Uprooting” with Guest Presenter Dr. Pragya Agarwal, professor, behavioral scientist, and author. Participants will learn the six steps of Kingian Nonviolence.

The nonviolence365 Live Interactive Workshops are FREE, but pre-registration is

required. Links to the Zoom will be sent 24 hours prior to the session start time. Pre-register now at: https://thekingcenter.org/ Session 1, “Understanding & Unpacking,” is Monday, January 9, 6:30 – 8:00 PM EST / 5:30 – 7:00 CST. Participants will explore unconscious bias within themselves, and how it creates a barrier to the Beloved Community; and what leads to these biases and how to challenge them.

Session 2, “Unpacking & Uprooting,” is Tuesday, January 10, 6:30 – 8:00 PM EST / 5:30 – 7:00 CST. Participants will learn how to recognize bias within systems and develop creative strategies for change.

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Faith of A Mustard Seed

by Barbara A. Woods Washington, M. Div. When the New Year comes, I now see as purpose for it being one of the greatest opportunities a society can have and take. The time to ‘take Inventory’ of all faults and failures of the previous year with a view towards being made “Brand New”. This resolution thing that is no longer relevant to the individual life, has to shift emphasis to the national and societal life to resolve and to repurpose the direction towards “Liberty and Justice... for ALL!” Still a heavyweight ‘on faith’ is Paul Tillich and any serious faith based theological study must take into account his work “Dynamics Of Faith”. In his introduction he writes, “There is hardly a word in the religious language, both theological and popular, which is subject to more misunderstandings, distortions and questionable definitions than the word “faith.”

It belongs to those terms which need healing before they can be used for the healing of men.” “... the only way of dealing with the problem is to try to reinterpret the word and remove the confusing and distorting connotations, some of which are the heritage of centuries.” “... more far-reaching aim to convince some readers of the hidden power of faith within themselves and of the infinite significance of that to which faith is related.”

This estimation on the misunderstandings and questionable defi-

Barbara A. Woods Washington, M. Div. nitions of the word faith can be readily seen in the ‘pat’ answer given historically by the Christian Church and most every church member. It is a simple recitation of Hebrews Eleventh chapter — “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.” It was not until I studied Hebrews as a course in Seminary under Dr. R. C. Briggs that I came to realize how little the church has transmitted from this book. Most all sermons preached from Hebrews are ‘stuck in the Eleventh chapter’! Our knowledge of faith is indeed ‘the heritage of centuries’ that leaves us with little more than a ‘testimony to faith’.

Tillich, in his ‘reinterpretation’ of the word ‘faith’ opens this hallmark writing with the definition: FAITH AS ULTIMATE CONCERN! Yet more than this— “Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned!” The discussion of ‘ultimate concern’ moves beyond food, shelter (and clothing) to enter the social and political and religious life.

Further, that ultimacy demands surrender and sacrifice to ‘the

concern’.

Two examples are given: one—the religion of the Old Testament; and two—the ultimate concern with “success, social standing and economic power, ‘the god’ in the highly competitive Western Culture”.

Once the ultimate concern is identified, it demands that all other concerns be sacrificed.

I continue to be at a loss as to why the future of children in the Black Nashville (and community Cleveland, et al) continues to be in question. School systems are no longer prepared (or are preparing) to meet the needs of this population who remain heirs of genocidal systems. Such a large portion of this population in preparation for penitentiaries— the ‘modern American system of slavery’. Ultimate concern for the social life which effect the whole of life!

When the New Year comes, the national life in all of it social networks must have and take the time for ‘Inventory’ —of all faults and failures of the previous year with a view towards being made “Brand New”.

This resolution thing that is no longer relevant to the individual life, has to shift emphasis to the national and societal life to resolve and to repurpose the direction towards “Liberty and Justice... for ALL!” “Some of these concerns”, Tillich writes, “are urgent, often extremely urgent.”

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Faithful utterances New wineskins in 2023

by Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew As we enter 2023, it’s important to spend time focusing and reflecting on the goodness of God. Despite how many challenges we’ve faced, every one of us can identify our many blessings. The mistake that many of us make is that we spend so much time thinking about the things we’ve lost, including: the pain, and the discouraging situations. Allow gratefulness to guide you into a new year. “I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness and shall sing of Your righteousness,” Psalm 145:57. Do not allow the problems of the past to rob you of a beautiful New Year of possibilities and potential. There is so much that God wants to do in each of our lives. Often, we blame God for our deferred dreams. We blame the enemy for our troubles. We seldom see the decisions we make that create barriers and obstacles for our destiny.

God gives us the ability to feel, think and choose.

If we don’t like the way our lives look, it’s time for some evaluation of our hearts and minds.

“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

All these evil things proceed from within and

defile the man,” Mark 7:21-23.

Just as we can make a decision to do what we want—we also can make the choice to something different. We’ve all heard the cliché ‘the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over expecting different results.’ In 2023, let’s make a decision to live our lives for God. We desire the blessings and benefits of God, but in order to see the miracles and manifestation of God to fully show up in our lives, we must do our part. If we want God to do something new in our lives in 2023, we must be willing to do something different.

The Pharisees and Sadducees were a group of religious leaders who focused so much on the interpretation of the law that they failed to recognize the new thing that God was doing. We can get so caught up in religious traditions that we miss God in our presence. “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved,” Matthew 9:16-17. “…that the Pharisees lived lives like old wineskins. When new wine was poured in, the wineskins would break apart and the wine wasted.

Jesus however, brought freedom in grace. His grace could not be held in legalistic rules that the Pharisees enforced over

Dr. Froswa Booker-Drew others. We cannot alter Jesus to fit our mold of religion. We have to remember that we are the jars, and He is the Potter. He will shape us to learn” – <Bibleref.com>.

Do not miss what God is doing. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland,” Isaiah 43:19. Allow God in 2023 to do a new thing in your life without being restricted to old ways of doing and thinking. This year, focus on a relationship with God versus settling solely for religious traditions that have no significance or ability to transform our lives. Commit to building a relationship with God that goes beyond just going to church on Sundays. It must be a lifestyle that is a part of who we are and what we do. Don’t just ask what would Jesus do. Be committed to live a life that reflects who Jesus is.

(Dr. Froswa’ BookerDrew is the host of the Tapestry podcast and the author of three books for women. She is also the vice president of Community Affairs for the State Fair of Texas.

To learn more, visit , <drfroswa.com>.)

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expressions of faith Discipline

by Bishop-elect Dr. Monterey D. Lee, Sr. Ever since man’s fall in the Garden of Eden, sin has come into the existence in man’s life.

Man’s efforts to fill the void and direct his life has failed to meet his deepest desires. Man in his quest to find life has also failed to satisfy the God who created mankind in His own image. God has faithfully revealed the right way to live, but man desire is the wrong way to live life. This is why man’s quest to find life has failed. So let us look at the three ways mankind chooses to live. There are three different ways one can choose to live.

1) Asceticism is the effort to please God by strict self-denial. People who practice this selfdenial, hope to gain merits with God by depriving themselves of spiritual reasoning. They are denying the rightfulness of what God has created for man’s good—to live holy and right before God. To them this is a foolish way to live.

Working each day to live right and holy before God. No, a lifetime of asceticism is what I will not do—knowing that it cannot bring fulfillment

or acceptance of God. 2) Undisciplined life is the opposite of asceticism. It allows whatever feels good to happen now. People think they can believe and act as they please without consequences. Such living is a choice to forget God. God does not matter to them. This obviously does not satisfy the soul, because it constantly requires something new and different all the time because simply obeying God is not fulfilling.

Observe the recreation of man and the commercialism of this world and you will see that mankind is not satisfied.

Something else is needed for their life, and it’s not God. 3) Christian Discipleship is the right way to live, which is the way of God. Jesus taught that Christian discipleship is the way to live. “Then said Jesus to His disciples, if any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life will lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake will find it. For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what should a man

Bishop-elect Dr. Monterey D. Lee, Sr. give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He will reward every man according to his works,” Matthew 16:24-27.

First, we must repent of all our sins and trust in Jesus for salvation.

Jesus will be our Lord and King. We will live for Him because we love Him, and we need His saving power. We will deny ourselves sinful ways for His glory, not for merits. We will serve Christ, not ourselves, as we exercise the gifts He gives us. God’s way will satisfy our soul both now and in eternity.

“Seek first the Kingdom of God and all His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you,” Matthew 6:33.

What life will you live? A life that will please God or a life that will displease mankind.

Nashville PRIDe Directory of Churches 40th Avenue Church of Christ 616 40th Avenue North Nashville TN, 37209 www.40thavecoc.com Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.

Bible Study: Wed. 7:00 p.m. & Thurs 11:00 a.m.

(615) 329-2325 Min. Dr. Charles A Beaman

Greater St. John Baptist Church 2200 26th Ave, No. Nashville, TN 37208 (615) 263-9450 Sunday Worship: 10:45 a.m.

Herbert T. Brown, pastor

Gordon Memorial United Methodist Church 2334 Herman Street Nashville, TN 3728 Church of Scientology & 615-329-2779 Celebrity Centre Sunday School @ 8:45am Nashville Sunday Worship @ 1130 8th Ave S 10:00am Nashville, TN 37203 Studies: Monday Bible 615-687-4600 Thursday @ 6pm; 7 days a week Wednes days @ 12 noon with Service every gordonmemorialumc.org Sunday at 11AM Rev. Dr. Paula B. Smith, scientologyPastor ccnashville.org Senior Pastor: Rev. Brian Fesler Jefferson Street MBC 2708 Jefferson Street Clark Memorial Nashville TN 37208 United Methodist 615-329-2990 Church Morning Worship: 1014 14th Ave. North 10 a.m.

Nashville, TN 37208 Rev. Aaron X. Marble, Ph: (615) 329-4464 pastor FAX: (615) 321-0975 Sunday Worship: John Wesley UMC 8:00 a.m./10:45 a.m.

901 Benton Avenue Herbert Lester, Jr.,pastor clarkumcnashville.org 615-298-2019 Sunday worship Cleveland 8am/11am Street MBC Daniel M. Hayes, Sr. 608 Cleveland Street pastor Nashville, TN 37207 jwesleyumc@ 615-227-1149 bellsouth.net Sunday Worship: http://jwesleyumc.org/ 10:45 a.m./9:15 Church School Lake Providence MBC clevelandstreet 5891 Nolensville Pike baptist@comcast.net Nashville, TN 37211 www.clevelandstreet baptistchurch.com (615) 833-5539 Dr. Donald Snead, pastor Sunday worship: 8am/11am Corinthian Missionary Rev. H. Bruce Maxwell, Baptist Church pastor 819 33rd Avenue N. Nashville, TN 37209 The Living Word (615) 977-6855 International Church Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

5100 Wyoming Ave. Sunday Worship Nashville, TN 37209 11:00 a.m.

615-297-7437 Wed. Worship: 7:30 PM Worship Times: Rev. Enoch Fuzz, pastor 11:00 a.m. 7 p.m.

Ezra Emmanuel (1st & 2nd Sun.) Ministries Bishop Adebanjo 2606 Union Hall Rd. thelivingwordcogic.com Clarksville, TN 37040 www.ezraemmanuel Mt. Lebanon MBC min.org 222 Franklin Lime 9 a.m. Sunday worship Stone Rd. 6 p.m. Wednesday 11:00 a.m.

Hr of Empowerment worship service 931-378-1092 615-596-0456 Overseer Danelle M. jamesgreen@yahoo.com Stephens Rev. James J. Green, Gospel United pastor Missionary Baptist Church Mt. Vernon MBC 3700 Fairview Dr. 1022 New Nashville, TN 37218 Providence Pass 615-876-7022 Madison, TN 37115 9:30 Sunday School Sunday Worship 11 a.m.

Sunday Worship: 615-860-0213 11:00 a.m.

Bishop Willie Joy, pastor Pastor Carlos A. Jones mtvernon1022@cocast.net

Nehemiah Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Thomas E. Hunter, Sr. 916 16th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37208 615-942-5261 Sunday School:9:00am Sunday Service: 10:00am Tues. Bible Study:6:30pm nehemiahmissionary baptistchurch.com New Salem A.M.E. Church 1800 4th Ave. N. Nashville, TN 37208 615-964-7246 Sunday Worship 11 a.m.

Pastor Eddie L. Sneed Payne Chapel AME Church 212 Neil Avenue (615) 262-3675 Sunday Worship: 10 am Rev. W. Antoni Sinkfield Schrader Lane Church of Christ 1234 Schrader Lane Nashville, TN 37208 (615) 329-0950 Sunday Worship: 7:45/10:15 a.m./5:00 p.m.

Robert Gardenhire, Pastor Spruce Street Baptist Church 504 Spruce Street Nashville, TN 37203 Worship at 11 a.m.

(615) 329-4105 Pastor Raymond Bowman St. John A.M.E. Church 1822 Formosa Street Nashville, TN. 37208 (615) 320-1026 sainjohname@aol.com Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Rev. Lisa Hammonds St. Luke A.M.E. Church 355 Blythe Ave. Gallatin, Tenn. 37066 615-452-3137 Sunday School 9:15 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am Rev. Dr. Barbara J.Crawford St. Matthew MBC 2412 Osage Street (615) 329-0173 Sunday Worship 11:00 a.m.

Rev. W.B. Armstrong, pastor St. Paul A.M.E. Church 3340 W. Hamilton Ave. Nashville, TN 37218 (615) 876-7219 Rev. Harold Moses Love, Jr. www.stpaul-amec.com Word of Life Christian Center International 4100 Clarksville Pike Nashville, TN 37218 (615) 876-3086 Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Rev. Alexander Arthur

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Titans name QB Josh Dobbs as starter for AFC South showdown vs. Jaguars

by Jim Wyatt, Courtesy of titansonline Josh Dobbs will start at quarterback for the Titans in Saturday's pivotal AFC South showdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Titans Head Coach Mike Vrabel made the announcement on Monday.

“Josh will be our quarterback,” Vrabel said. “I've talked to both quarterbacks and let them know that Josh will be our quarterback for this week and Malik has to continue to prepare like a starter. I am fairly confident Malik is going to do something to help us win in this football game. So I am hopeful. I know he will continue to prepare like he has and continue to improve throughout practice.”

The winner of

Saturday's game, scheduled for 7:15 pm at TIAA Bank Stadium in Jacksonville, will win the AFC South.

“I think he is ready for the opportunity and is looking forward to it,” Vrabel said of Dobbs.

“The message to Malik is to continue doing what he has been doing, which is continue to study, continue to use the practice reps to his advantage, to help the game slow down for him when he is out there, that is the most important thing.”

In his first NFL start, Dobbs completed 20-of39 passes for 232 yards and a touchdown in Thursday night's loss to the Cowboys. Dobbs also threw an interception, and he lost a fumble. He posted a passer rating of 67.5.

Willis has started

three games this season, and the Titans are 1-2 in those starts.

Willis has completed 31-of-61 passes for 276 yards, with zero touchdowns and three interceptions, with a passer rating of 42.8.

Last week, the Titans placed Ryan Tannehill on Injured Reserve.

Later that same day, Dobbs was the starter against the Cowboys after signing with the team just eight days earlier, and Willis was the No. 2 QB. “I thought he was decisive, and he did a nice job of progressing through when we gave him time,” Vrabel said of Dobbs and his first start.

“I thought he tried to take the opportunity and run with it and lead. I just think he gives us the best chance right now.”

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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

by Dwight Brown, Film critic for DwightBrownInk.com and NNPA News Wire (**1/2) It’s an illusion. When actress Naomi Ackie stands with her back to the camera, you stare at her clothes, wigs, physique and mannerisms and get tricked into thinking that’s Whitney Houston. Then she turns around, and it’s not. It’s a recurring mirage. A string of images that give Houston fans something to cling to.

Veteran record executive Clive Davis met with screenwriter Anthony McCarten (Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody), enlisted the aid of Gary and Pat Houston (Houston’s brother and sister-in-law) and this production evolved.

Davis knew the singer’s musical feats. Her family understood her personal story and McCarten created a script that shows the songstress’ highs, lows and indelible performances.

In the 1980s, a young Whitney (Ackie) sings backup for her mom Cissy Houston (Tamara Tunie) at the NYC nightclub Sweetwater’s.

Davis (Stanley Tucci), an exec at Arista Records, is impressed and signs her. A stunning debut performance on the Merv Griffin Show introduces Houston to throngs of viewers. Her first album in 1985, Whitney Houston, sells millions and its #1 hit

Naomi Ackie in Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. single ‘Saving All My F o r t y - O n e - Ye a r- O l d Love For You’ launches Version). Viewers may her recording career. wonder if the film would International world have been more kinetic tours, Grammy Awards if a director with a music and film roles (The video background had Bodyguard) propel her taken the reigns. It’s a into stardom. debate worth having, as Fame comes with the film feels like a mix bouts of drug abuse, a of staid TV movie, thetroubled marriage to atrical film and streamBobby Brown (Aston ing production elements.

Sanders, Moonlight) and Another worthy discusa strained relationship sion is whether this projwith her father/manager ect should have been a John (Clarke Peters). mini-series instead of a Even a gossiped about feature. That said, relationship with Lemmons gets the job friend/lover/assistant/cre done, her way. ative director Robyn Within the bound(Nafessa Williams) is aries of the creative aired. Little is left unsaid choices, the tech team or unsung. recreates Houston’s Kasi Lemmons’ most iconic videos with (Harriet) style of direc- perfect lighting, compotion tends to be thorough sition and cinematograand straightforward. The phy (Barry Ackroyd, footage is direct, not Jason Bourne). The prostylish and tightly edited duction design (Gerald (Daysha Broadway, The Sullivan), makeup

(Jackie Aguece), art direction (David Offner) and costumes (Charles Antoinette Jones) are solid too. Reconstructed shoots of ‘I Wanna Dance,’ ‘I Will Always Love You’ and ‘How Will I Know’ mirror the originals.

It's all very entertaining, though not as gritty as one might hope. Some scenes feel melodramatic, like parts of Starz’s ‘Power,’ e.g.: Whitney confronts her duplicitous father. Dad: “I’m the manger here.” Whitney: “I know you are, you work for me!”

Fortunately, emotions get a bit rawer and deeper when Bobby and Whitney have their volatile clashes.

Also, though the dialogue is serviceable, it isn’t what it could be.

When Whitney says: “I’m tired of being the good girl,” it feels like the words of a screenwriter. As a tough Jersey girl, wouldn’t she have said something saltier?

Like: “Why do I always have to be the motherf----g good girl?”

Ackie reimagines the icon deftly with her very thoughtful interpretation. She walks, talks and lip-synchs her way through a two hour and 26 minute homage, never letting the audience down. She’s gleeful, hopeful and wallowing in mega-stardom one minute—then doing drugs, drinking and leading a low life the next.

You never question Ackie’s performance— nor that of Tucci as

Trendsetting rapper Gangsta Boo of Three 6 Mafia Dies at 43

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent Gangsta Boo, the trendsetting hip hop star and the only female member of the mega group Three 6 Mafia, has reportedly died at the age of 43.

Her label mate DJ Paul confirmed her death on Sunday, Jan. 1.

Born Lola Chantrelle Mitchell in Memphis, Tennessee, Mitchell counted among the female pioneers in the heavily male dominated genre.

In the 1990s, Mitchell teamed with DJ Paul, Juicy J, Lord Infamous, Crunchy Black, Koopsta Knicca and others to form Three 6 Mafia.

She helped the group form an identity that resonated throughout the world with records ‘Mystic Stylez,’ ‘Chapter 1,’ and ‘Choice.’

Mitchell later teamed with artists like OutKast, Eminem, Foxy Brown, and Lil Jon. After leaving Three 6 Mafia, Mitchell released

her first solo album, Enquiring Minds, in 1998.

The disc reached No. 15 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and number 46 on the Billboard 200, with the hit song ‘Where Dem Dollas At!?’

In 2001, she released her second album, Both Worlds *69, reaching the eighth spot on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart and 29 on the Billboard 200.

Though her third studio album, Enquiring Minds II: The Soap Opera, failed to achieve the same success as her previous releases, the record did reach No. 24 on the Independent Albums chart.

In 2015 Mitchell released the mixtape, Candy, Diamond & Pills, which catapulted her to the forefront of the underground hip-hop scene.

She then toured with Killer Mike and El-P, playing sold-out shows across the United States on their ‘Run The World Tour.’

Following the tour,

Born Lola Chantrelle Mitchell in Memphis, Tennessee, Mitchell counted among the female pioneers in the heavily male dominated genre.

Mitchell set the music South that set the trends world on fire with an for so many others to epic Verzuz battle in come after her. This is a which she reunited with huge loss for Memphis.”

Singer K. Michelle Three 6 Mafia to battle Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. also joined a long list of “Rest In Peace To artists, fans, and others to Legendary Female Rap- pay tribute.

“You already know per Gangsta Boo From Memphis Tenn.,” tweet- what it is,” K. Michelle ed famed DJ Mister Cee. tweeted. “We forever.

“She was one of the Broke my whole heart female rappers from the today sis. I love you.”

Davis or Tunie as Cissy.

If Whitney Houston fans long to feel her essence again, this movie and its illusions

gives them a chance— but not like an extraordinary biofilm. More like a condensed diary with lots of wonderful music.

Winter Fun ACROSS 1.Make change 6. Used in combination to denote the middle 9. *Ammo material 13. Star____ 14. The “place with the helpful hardware folks” 15. Neutral shade 16. Orderly arrangement 17. Romanian monetary unit 18. Button on electrical outlet 19. *Frosty’s nose 21. *Gingerbread Man, e.g.

23. Drench 24. What a willow did?

25. Famous song by The Jackson 5 28. Cone-shaped quarters 30. *Snow mover 35. A bit of water 37. Pakistani language 39. Measured in knots 40. Tatted fabric 41. *”A Visit from St. Nicholas” poet 43. Tropical edible root 44. Paintings in Orthodox church 46. Not swim or swum 47. Frozen puddle accident 48. Small skullcap 50. Dresden’s river 52. Captain’s turf 53. Drop of sorrow 55. “Slippery” tree 57. *Frozen spike 60. *Three-horse sleigh ride 63. Words to live by 64. Caviar alternative 66. On D’Artagnan’s hat 68. Group of wives 69. Boiling emotion 70. Furnish with a fund 71. Travelers’ stops 72. Poetic “even” 73. Buy second-hand DOWN 1. Agha, alt. sp.

2. Artist Chagall’s first name 3. Poet Pound’s

first name 4. Draws close 5. Fungus damage (2 words) 6. Shake’s cousin?

7. *____ fishing 8. Two, in cards 9. Station finder button 10. Not final 11. Curved molding 12. Kind of nurse 15. Bouillons 20. Laudanum ingredient 22. Saturn’s wife 24. As opposed to widow 25. Impromptu 26. Emergency pedal 27. *Hot treat 29. Major-leaguers 31. Prefers 32. Butcher shop offering, pl.

33. Ghostlike 34. Parkinson’s drug 36. Philadelphia’s Ivy League member 38. Russian mountain chain 42. *Fireplace glob 45. TV offering 49. Reef fish 51. Kind of bride 54. Eagle’s home 56. Hundred Acre Wood creator 57. A Flock of Seagulls’ 1982 hit (2 words) 58. European Council for Nuclear Research, acr.

59. Bad day for Caesar 60. Not quite an adult 61. Spiral-horned African antelope 62. Singer-songwriter Tori 63. Tai’s partner 65. Miner’s bounty 67. Female sheep Solutions from last puzzle

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Another boost in the fight against hunger Supporting community wellness and doubling employee donations.

Bank of America proudly continues to support our employees’ health and safety while addressing food insecurity in our local communities, which typically spikes during the winter months.

Our employees are taking action to support the important work of our local food banks. For those who let us know they’ve received a coronavirus booster and/or a flu shot, we’ll donate $50 for each to a local hunger relief organization. In addition, employees can double the impact of their personal donations to fight hunger with our matching gifts program. Through these efforts, we’ll donate more than $8 million to address food insecurity in our local communities.

The team here in Nashville recently presented Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee with a check for $30,000. This contribution is in addition to our long-standing philanthropic support to help fight hunger and food insecurity across the country. We are proud to be able to help our community as we work together to move forward.

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