WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (TNStalk) -- AIDS United posted the following agency statement: Last week, Tennessee state officials made clear their intentions to no longer accept millions of dollars in federal money aimed at ending the HIV epidemic in the state. Dozens of organizations -- including a member of AIDS United's Public Policy Council and several AIDS United grantees -- learned vital funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for HIV prevention, testing and treatment programs  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (TNSgov) -- The America First Legal, a civil rights organization, issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2023: Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL), and its counsel, Christopher Mills, proudly continued AFL's ongoing fight to protect Title IX and girls' sports from the Biden Administration's extreme gender ideology agenda in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in The State of Tennessee, et al., v. Department of Education,   more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Jan. 31 (TNStalk) -- American Principles Project, an organization that says it engages in campaigns and advocacy on behalf of the family, issued the following statement on Jan. 30, 2023: * * * On Saturday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed S.B. 16, legislation which prohibits health care providers from performing sex-change procedures on minors. The new law also extends the right of action for individuals to bring medical malpractice suits if they were given such procedures  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (TNStalk) -- The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation issued the following statement on Jan. 30, 2023: * * * On Friday, January 27, 2023, the City of Memphis released video footage of Tyre Nichols' arrest. Nicole Austin-Hillery, President and CEO, CBCF, issued the following statement. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Incorporated (CBCF) extends its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Tyre Nichols, and to the entire Memphis, Tennessee community. As a  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (TNSpp) -- LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, issued the following news release: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued the following statement in the wake of the video released by the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols. The video was made public after five black police officers were fired and charged with murder for the fatal beating captured on camera. Nichols died several days later. (Warnin  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (TNStalk) -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following commentary to The Spectator on Jan. 31, 2023: * * * Tyre Nichols and the New Black-Cop White Supremacy By Heather MacDonald America will learn all the wrong lessons from this tragedy. Racism has become an unfalsifiable proposition. Such is the central take-away from the race industry's tortured reaction to a brutal police beating in Memphis, Tennessee. Five Memphis officers responded to what was initially reported as  more

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, Jan. 27 (TNStalk) -- The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors posted the following joint statement with the American Council of Life Insurers: * * * American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) President and CEO Susan Neely and NAIFA-TN President Scott Flowers issued the following joint statement on the best interest annuity rule adopted recently by the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance. "The new rule adopted by Director Carter Lawrence an  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (TNStalk) -- The National Iranian American Council issued the following statement on Jan. 30, 2023: * * * We are devastated by yet another killing of an unarmed Black man by police, this time 29 year-old Tyre Nichols of Memphis, Tennessee. Nichols - a father to a 4 year-old boy - was pulled over in a traffic stop on January 7th and then brutally beaten by police officers, which led to his hospitalization and tragic death on January 10th. We mourn his loss. Nichols should st  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 -- The William J. Clinton Foundation issued the following news release on Jan. 31, 2023: President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton announced the initial program for the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2023 Annual Meeting this March 3-5 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. This year's meeting theme is "Homecoming: Strengthening Community, Leadership & Action." Building on the momentum fro  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Jan. 31 (TNStalk) -- Progress Virginia, an advocacy organization that combines online organizing and communications with earned media strategies, issued the following statement on Jan. 30, 2023: * * * We are appalled and devastated by the murder of Tyre Nichols by police. Tyre was a beautiful soul who enjoyed skateboarding and photography. His life was unfairly cut short when police brutally and violently murdered him for no reason. His life mattered, and he deserved so muc  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (TNSpar) -- The Bipartisan Policy Center issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2023: Providing non-partisan public policy insights and developing innovative research initiatives are the goals of a new partnership between the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT), and the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, DC, think tank. Established by four former majority leaders of the United States Senate, including Tennessee Senator Howard Baker Jr., BPC aims to connect poli  more