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Civil War sign honoring first Black soldiers in Tennessee to fight on front lines unveiled
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Greater than 150 years after the Battle of Nashville, an indication honoring the primary black fight troopers was unveiled Thursday exterior STEAM Academy.
“It exhibits that the story just isn’t solely necessary to me, however it’s necessary to our group, that the complete historical past story is instructed that African People contributed to the good nation and serving the navy,” acknowledged Gary Burke, a Battle of Nashville Soldier descendant.
After his personal father died, Burke discovered that his nice, nice grandfather fought on the entrance strains.
“After my father handed away, he had a sequence of paperwork from the Warfare Division and on the again of a type of paperwork it mentioned, my nice nice grandmother was receiving pension, from the Civil Warfare,” mentioned Burke. “In order that’s how I knew I had a direct descendant-ship to a soldier of the Civil Warfare.”
Burke mentioned it was an emotional discovering however impressed him to proceed as a Civil Warfare reenactor that he had already been doing for six years.
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The Battle of Nashville Belief reached out to Burke to inform him concerning the new marker unveiling that was occurring close to the battle web site for the Battle of Nashville—a web site that actually tells a narrative.
“It was the Battle of Nashville—the Second Battle of Nashville. And this one is important as a result of you’ve gotten African People actively bearing arms to struggle for the federal facet. For a lot of of them. It was their first motion. It was their first time having folks truly shoot at them. So a variety of them have been actually not seasoned troopers, on the time. Though that they had been skilled. This was their first real-time and battle,” defined Tennessee State College Historian Dr. Learotha Williams.
For greater than 100 years, the truth that black troopers fought was largely unknown and definitely, uncelebrated. Williams mentioned a lot of that needed to do with the shortage of literacy inflicting not a lot to be written down.
“Notably throughout this time, as a result of their presence was oftentimes marginalized and erased in lots of cases from our collective reminiscence while you’re taking a look at Black troopers from this era, you understand, it is a research in reminiscence, however it’s additionally a research in amnesia,” mentioned Williams. “Whereas I used to be in grad college, we have been taught that 620,000 folks died through the Civil Warfare. Two years in the past, that quantity has been cracked as much as be elevated moderately to about 800,000.”
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“We all know that African People have been very a lot part of build up the defenses right here. We all know that they shaped items that have been stationed right here,” defined Williams. “Throughout the metropolis that has a gazillion Civil Warfare markers, what number of of them are African People that speak concerning the position African People performed? Perhaps two, amongst all these that we now have.”
The Battle of Nashville Belief (BONT), Nashville Conference & Guests Corp. (Go to Music Metropolis), STEM Prep Academy, and Civil Warfare Trails, Inc. got here collectively to make this challenge a actuality after three years of analysis, overview, and planning. After securing a grant from the Tennessee Wars Fee in July 2020 the BONT solicited the experience Williams.
The signal is a part of the multi-state tourism program. Civil Warfare Trails Government Director Drew Gruber mentioned the placement of the signal is “on the web site the place for the primary time in Tennessee regiments of Black males, many previously enslaved, fought for his or her freedom as United States troopers. Additionally it is one of many solely slivers of battlefield remaining within the quickly rising Nashville space.”
Claire Kopsky
Williams defined the burden of the knowledge that he studied and wrote on the signal.
“They [the black soldiers] knew intuitively, they knew that violence was the factor that held slavery collectively, proper? So if their enslaved did not have the whip, or the weapons or the knives or no matter, slavery would not exist. By the identical token, they understood that violence was most likely going to be the factor that broke it and on the finish of the day, that is what it was,” interpreted Williams.
Burke additionally mentioned the signal unveiled Thursday is rather more than a marker: “It is good to know that the subsequent technology learns a little bit bit about native historical past, that it is our historical past collectively. That it is not black historical past, it’s American historical past.”
To learn extra about different Civil Warfare path makers in Tennessee and in different states, go to their web site.
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New Tennessee law requiring AEDs in high schools goes into effect
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee’s “Smart Heart Act” is now in effect after it was signed by Governor Bill Lee in May. The legislation requires automatic defibrillators in schools and also establishes protocols for medical emergencies related to cardiac issues.
As of July 1, each public and non-public school where students attend grades 9 through 12 must maintain an automated external defibrillator (AED) thanks to the Smart Heart Act. The law also requires that the AED be made accessible during the regular school day and athletic events.
The Tennessee General Assembly passed the Smart Heart Act, sponsored by Cepicky and Hensley, in April 2024.
“Nothing is more important than keeping our students healthy and safe, and the Smart Heart Act ensures schools will be ready to respond in the event of a cardiac-related emergency,” Gov. Bill Lee stated in May upon signing the legislation into law. “I commend the General Assembly for their commitment to Tennessee students in passing this legislation.”
The Smart Heart Sports Coalition, which was launched in 2023, comprises major sports leagues and leading health advocacy groups seeking to drive the adoption of policies that could help prevent fatalities from Sudden Cardiac Arrest among high school students. Among the priorities include clearly marked AEDs at or within minutes of each high school athletic venue, an emergency action plan specific to each athletic venue that is posted and regularly rehearsed, plus education in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with AED use, for coaches and school personnel.
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Tennessee father and son win big on $1M scratch-off: ‘I ain’t ever eating bologna again’
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They won big, no baloney!
A Tennessee father and son duo vowed they’d be eating like kings after winning nearly $1 million on a $20 scratch-off ticket.
Jody — who chose not to share his last name — father purchased a $1 million Casino Nights Kentucky Lottery scratch-off game at a gas station in Adairville, Kentucky, on June 8, according to the Kentucky Lottery.
After purchasing the ticket, Jody’s father, whose name wasn’t revealed, couldn’t wait to play and began scratching the ticket right at the Adairville Market, which is roughly 12 miles away from Springfield, Tennessee, where Jody lives.
“I said [to the clerk], ‘If I hit this million dollars, I ain’t ever eating bologna again,’” the father said, according to lottery officials.
The top prize was revealed within the first couple of rows, and he matched the three key symbols next to the top prize amount.
“It kind of shocked me,” the father said.
Ecstatic over the win, Jody’s father said he called his son immediately to break the joyful news.
“He went, ‘You’ll never believe what I just did,’” Jody told lottery officials.
“And, I said, ‘what?’ He said, ‘We just won a $1,000,000!’ I was sitting there thinking, yeah right, I don’t believe you!”
Jody’s father then hightailed over to his son’s home, where the two planned on driving to Kentucky Lottery Headquarters that following Monday and discussed how they would claim the prize.
The father-son team arrived at headquarters in Louisville on June 10 and opted for the lump sum of $700k.
Large lotto winners can choose between taking their winnings home as a lump sum or annuity payments.
But while at the headquarters to claim their prize, finding out that they had won a life-changing amount of money didn’t stop the father from performing chores around the house.
Jody’s father shared that he still hopped on his lawnmower and mowed his yard while they waited over the weekend to cash in the ticket, according to officials.
Jody shared that the duo planned to invest their new money after paying off all their bills.
“Houses are paid off. Cars paid off, done. We will be bill-free probably next week,” Jody shared.
“You become debt free, and you don’t have any bills.”
Since the father and son opted for the lump sum, lottery officials said they took home a check for $504,000 after taxes.
The gas station where the lucky ticket was bought will also receive a check for $7,000 for selling the winning ticket.
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Nashville gets first rainbow crosswalk to support LGBTQ community • Tennessee Lookout
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Hundreds of Middle Tennesseans gathered near in East Nashville Saturday to paint the city’s first rainbow crosswalks as a celebration of LGBTQ pride.
The event, which was sponsored by Metro Councilman Clay Capp, drew scores of elected officials, community members and a couple of protesters.
The crosswalk intersection at 14 and Woodland Streets is in front of the Lipstick Lounge, which opened in 2003 is one of only 20 lesbian bars in the U.S.
Nashville elected officials begin painting a rainbow crosswalk outside the Lipstick Lounge in East Nashville.
(Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
A street preacher with his Bible admonished participants painting the rainbow crosswalk. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Metro Nashville Councilmember-at-Large Olivia Hill gives the peace sign to everyone before painting. (Photo:John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Heather Sapphire, Kennedy Ann Scott and others start painting the crosswalk. (Photo:John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
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