January 20, 2006
Belmont News
Boston Rev. Ray Hammond, who lead a successful church-based effort in the early 1990s to reduce Boston's crime and murder rate, told a gathering of leaders from Nashville churches and law enforcement and others at Belmont University Thursday how they did it. [MORE]
Dr. Bill Bass, retired forensics expert known for his dead body "farm" at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, delivered the annual Vaughn Science Lecture at Belmont University Thursday. [MORE]
The Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, who spoke at Belmont University Wednesday about the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and about mentoring at-risk youth, recently lead a delegation to Sudan. National Public Radio had a report on the trip yesterday. [Click here to hear the report]
An anti-violence symposium focusing on a church-based approach to reducing Nashville's homicide rate is the cornerstone of a week of events planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Week at Belmont University, honoring the late civil rights leader. [MORE]
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