This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report indicating the number of active hate groups in Tennessee has dropped over the past year. However, this doesn’t mean that hateful attitudes and extremism is decreasing across the state.
Reviewing the changing state of hate in Tennessee with WPLN’s Paige Pfleger
TSU is set to receive $250 million under Gov. Lee’s funding proposal. Now lawmakers want a way to track how the money is spent.
Tennessee State University has more than $300 million dollars in deferred maintenance needs.
Some unhoused people avoid shelters when temps drop — and one street chaplain delivers propane to help keep them alive
When Rev. Lisa Cook worked a corporate job downtown, she’d leave work and pass people sleeping on the streets. She says she was afraid, though she never talked to them. Now, the street chaplain says, she’s making up for lost time.
Tennessee Senate confirms State Board of Education pick, whose online store sold ammunition used in a school shooting
Gov. Bill Lee nominated Knoxville businessman Jordan Mollenhour last year to the board that creates policies for the state’s K-12 public schools. Critics say Mollenhour’s ammunition business clouds his resume.
When McMinn County banned ‘Maus,’ one Franklin mom and her kid started reading it for book club
When Catie Fein and her eighth-grader, AJ, heard that the McMinn County school board had voted to ban Maus, they decided to fight back. So, they founded their own book club to read the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir together in Catie’s home in Franklin.
Nashville’s upcoming soccer stadium unveils new name, marking its international pursuits
Nashville’s hockey and football stadiums have attracted fans from all over the country. But the city’s upcoming $335 million soccer arena has bigger plans: it wants to see spectators from all over the world.
@ Us! This Is Nashville is reading the comments so you don’t have to
There’s an unspoken rule in internet culture that you shouldn’t read the comments. Comment sections are known for being cesspools where typically mild-mannered people turn to name-calling and conspiracy theories, hidden behind the safety of their computer screen. But that’s not always the case. That’s why at This Is Nashville, we’re digging in. Instead of […]
Historically Black Nashville institutions could get millions in federal spending package
Among those that stand to receive money are American Baptist College, Meharry Medical College and a land bridge project over Jefferson Street that’s still seeking community buy-in.
Breaking down Tennessee’s book-banning bills with WPLN’s Blaise Gainey
WPLN News political reporter Blaise Gainey joined This Is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona in studio on Thursday to break down what the bills are about, some of the concerns teachers and librarians have about them, and what is the potential that they will become law.
Hate groups in Tennessee are on the decline, but the Southern Poverty Law Center says that’s only because extremism is becoming more mainstream
They say fewer people are becoming card-carrying members of hate groups because extremist ideas became more mainstream.
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