The exact amount of underfunding of HBCUs is vast, hard to calculate, and even harder to make a political case for.
Long before fights over DEI, a judge told Tennessee State University to lose its Black identity
In the early 1980s, Tennessee State University was at a turning point.
Almost 60 years ago, a court case at TSU transformed Tennessee higher education
What happens when government funding is withheld from a public university that’s served generations of Black Tennesseans? And what could be possible if that debt were finally paid?
Her air-ambulance ride wasn’t covered by Medicare. It will cost her family $81,739.
A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride.
What Tennessee can learn from a high-profile tragedy that led to the legalization of abortion in Ireland
Just like in Tennessee, the Republic of Ireland has had intense debates about abortion access. But 10 years ago this week, one woman’s death caused an uproar that eventually led to the country to legalizing abortion.
Dublin or Lower Broadway? Thousands of Garth Brooks fans celebrate his first Irish show in 25 years, cowboy hats and all
When Garth Brooks finally comes to town, Dublin is awash in T-shirts about Tennessee whiskey, cowboy hats, and drunken renditions of “Friends in Low Places.”
‘This is once in a lifetime’: A Lebanon grade-schooler remembers the total solar eclipse, 5 years later
What happens when your earliest memory of a world event is actually something joyful?
A decade ago, Tennessee had more protections for abortion than much of the country. What changed?
Abortions in Tennessee are almost completely going away within the next month. But less than a decade ago, the state had more protections for abortion than the rest of the county.
The fastest supercomputer in the world resides, once again, in Tennessee
WPLN News Director Emily Siner and Justin Whitt, director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, discussed the Frontier supercomputer on This Is Nashville on June 7. You can listen to the full episode here. A new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called Frontier, has been crowned the fastest in the world — and […]
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