Watch COVID Vaccine Funder Dolly Parton Sing Jolene Remake Before Getting First Shot
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She recorded the whole process and shared it with fans on Instagram
She sang a new version of her 1970s hit Jolene before getting her shot
Dolly Parton remade one of her most iconic songs for her first COVID-19 vaccine shot Tuesday.
The country singer, 75, documented her first dose of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine, which she had helped fund with her $1 million donation last year. Parton s longtime friend, Dr. Naji Abumrad of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, administered the shot, Cnet reported.
Aside from sharing a photo of her vaccination, Parton also posted a video of the moment on Instagram and Twitter. In the clip, she explained that she chose to get vaccinated because, I m old enough to get it, and I m smart enough to get it.
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WILMINGTON Nancy Kise Hearne, 80, passed away Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021.
She was born in Ashland, Kentucky, in 1940 to the late Jack G. Kise and Eula Preston.
Mrs. Hearne was a graduate of Ashland Senior High School. She elected to continue her education at Peabody College, now part of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her first job following her college graduation was an H.R. position with Kentucky Power and Electric.
Mrs. Hearne is survived by her devoted husband, Joseph C. Hearne. They married in 1961 and relocated to North Carolina, where Joe served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. They built a wonderful life together and raised three children.
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Have Black Lives Matter protests changed the curriculum?
In 1903 the African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois coined the term ‘double consciousness’. American racism, he said, forced African-Americans to see themselves two ways. Among themselves, they were wives, husbands, friends, children. At the same time, America’s racial apartheid, ‘Jim Crow’, forced African-Americans to measure themselves as White America did, that is, with “contempt”.
While discussing with African-American scholars how last spring’s Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests affected the curriculum in universities across North America, I was brought face to face with a latter-day version of ‘double consciousness’.
When speaking about how their teaching and assignments are designed to chip away at racism, the African-American professors Anthony Pinn of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Ebony McGee of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, sounded much like Professor Alexandra Rut