Nashville-area home prices have cooled significantly. New data compiled by local real estate agents show prices are still going up, but only by a…
Season 1, Bonus 2: The Big Man Interview
If you’ve listened to The Promise, you no doubt remember Dexter Turner, aka Big Man. We met him in episode 2. In this bonus episode, Meribah Knight speaks with Big Man months later, live on stage at Nashville Public Radio’s Podcast Party.
Why Some Officials Have Questioned Martha O’Bryan’s New Charter School In East Nashville
The Martha O’Bryan Center is known throughout Nashville for its work with low-income residents and has been embedded in East Nashville’s James Cayce homes for decades. As Cayce is being overhauled into mixed-income housing, the nonprofit is about to move one of its charter schools into that complex. But the new school building has received […]
Martha O’Bryan Center Builds School In Nashville’s Cayce Homes, But Some Residents Feel Forgotten
Listen Editor’s note: This story was reported in partnership with Nate Rau of the Tennessean. The Martha O’Bryan Center surprised the East Nashville public housing project that it has served for 70 years in June 2017, when it decided to shutter its longtime preschool and day care program for low-income children.
Nashville Officer Charged With Homicide Stopped, Searched Black Drivers More Often, Data Shows
Listen A white Nashville officer is under intense scrutiny after fatally shooting a black man while he was fleeing, allegedly with a gun. Now, as Officer Andrew Delke faces a homicide charge, one Vanderbilt doctoral candidate has crunched more than a year of his traffic stop data, which suggests some trends in his style of […]
A Metro Officer Is Charged With Criminal Homicide, But What Kind?
Listen When Nashville’s District Attorney’s office decided to seek a bench warrant for the arrest of Officer Andrew Delke, charging him with criminal homicide for the fatal shooting of Daniel Hambrick, it put into play a more winding legal process. It still needs to determine what type of homicide Delke will be charged with, if […]
A Metro Officer Is Charged With Criminal Homicide, But What Kind?
Listen When Nashville’s District Attorney’s office decided to seek a bench warrant for the arrest of Officer Andrew Delke, charging him with criminal homicide for the fatal shooting of Daniel Hambrick, it put into play a more winding legal process. It still needs to determine what type of homicide Delke will be charged with, if […]
City Approves $130K Police Misconduct Settlement
Listen The Metro Council approved a substantial settlement Tuesday over an allegation of police misconduct. It’s one of the larger payouts in nearly a decade, mainly because the woman arrested fought every step of the way.
As One Nashville School Quietly Re-Segregates, A Group Of Parents Pushes Back
Listen Tucked away on a leafy side street in East Nashville, Lockeland Elementary Design Center is ranked the fourth-best in the district. But in recent years, the student body at Lockeland has gone from half African-American to nearly all white. It’s a shift so stark that a group of parents say the school must do […]
The Promise: Public Housing Residents Brace For Change, But Are The Bureaucrats Listening?
Listen The last radio story in this series reveals the scope of The Promise, WPLN’s special podcast series. Reporter and producer Meribah Knight spent over a year reporting on life in the James Cayce Homes, Nashville’s largest public housing complex.
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