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.
The Promise: Inside East Nashville Public Housing, The Longing To ‘Get Some Gone’
Listen There is a saying in Nashville’s James Cayce Homes: “Get some gone.” Three simple words that describe the urge, the mission, to move out and start anew, far away from the city’s largest public housing project. Some do leave. But it’s not easy, especially with the city’s rising cost of rent. “I mean, half […]
The Promise: The People And The Police, A Relationship On Thin Ice
Listen The relationship between James Cayce residents and Nashville police is a tenuous one. In this story, we explore two defining moments in Cayce: A viral cell phone video of a police officer being assaulted, and the most controversial police shooting in the city’s recent history. Both were caught on camera. And both reveal the strain between the people […]
The Promise: A Tale Of Two Neighbors Pt. 2
Listen After Big Man, a resident of Nashville’s largest public housing complex, the Cayce Homes, meets his wealthy white neighbors up the hill, a friendship blooms. It’s the last thing he expected to happen. For months this house, an imposing white modern structure, had nagged at him. It’s very presence threatened his sense of place […]
The Promise: A Tale Of Two Neighbors Pt. 1
Listen This is a story about the assumptions we all make. And the secrets we all keep. Big Man, a public housing resident from the Cayce Homes, has a nagging feeling about a fancy new modern-looking home one block over from him. To Big Man, this house signifies everything threatening him and his family: gentrification, […]
Nashville’s MLS Stadium Stays Alive, But Council Kills Development Built Around Transit
The Metro Council advanced the ordinances required to build a new stadium for a Major League Soccer team Tuesday night and abandoned efforts to put the project up for a vote as a ballot initiative.
Nashville Mayor Brings In New York Organization, Again, To Recalibrate Policing
Listen In the wake of Nashville’s second fatal police shooting in 18 months, Mayor David Briley says he’s bringing in outside help to work on reforming the city’s approach to policing. The initiative has been slow to get off the ground, but those involved say it’s ramping up.
Edgehill Neighbors Divided Over A Plan To Curb Development
Listen Nashville’s historic Edgehill neighborhood is debating whether to apply a conservation overlay to a small portion of the community. And the plan has divided longtime residents over its effects on the neighborhood.
After Fatal Police Shooting Community Asks For Answers, But Police Have Few
Less than 24 hours after a black man was fatally shot by a Metro Police officer in North Nashville, community members, police and city officials gathered to discuss the incident. But the police had little to say. That’s because they are not the ones in charge of investigating this shooting; the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation […]
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