Listen After a Nashville police officer was charged with homicide last week, questions are likely to emerge about the man he fatally shot — Daniel Hambrick. His mother says that, in any trial that may proceed, she hopes the portrait painted of her son includes her vision of him.
In Franklin, Growing Support For African-American Historic Markers Next To Confederate Monument
Listen There’s a battle in Franklin over the city’s most prominent Confederate monument. Unlike places where statues have been taken down, a coalition of local faith leaders and historical societies has proposed adding new markers to be placed next to the monument that would detail the area’s African-American history. But one group is still strongly […]
The Company That Turned a Small Tennessee Town Into ‘Pencil City’ Still Holds On
In the 1950s, the small town of Shelbyville, Tenn., was home to a half-dozen pencil manufacturers, prompting then-Gov. Buford Ellington to declare it …
Why Did So Many Kids Born In North Nashville In The ’80s Go To Prison?
A new study on the relationship between childhood poverty and how likely someone is to be imprisoned later contains an eyebrow-raising statistic about one Nashville neighborhood.
Curious Nashville: The Construction Boom Puppet Show
What happens when you adapt a podcast episode into a puppet show? Curious Nashville magic, that’s what. In May, we hosted a celebration of Nashville Public Radio’s podcasts — called Podcast Party (fittingly) — at the Nashville Children’s Theater. We teamed up with local puppeteers to produce a live animated version of one of our […]
Americana Artist Rhiannon Giddens Wins $625,000 MacArthur Grant
Musician and actress Rhiannon Giddens has been awarded one of the MacArthur “genius grants” for her work “reclaiming African-American contributions to folk and country,” the institution says.
Versify #4: It Is Not What Is Written On Your Tombstone
For much of her life, Ali Russell has been uncertain about religion. Even as a little girl, she’d ask her parents, “How do we know we’re worshiping the right God?” She even had a Jesus dream that still lingers with her today. In this episode, Ali shares her story to her longtime friend and Nashville […]
How The Insides Of Col. Tom Parker’s House Became A Stunning Portrait Of Elvis
In a portrait of a young Elvis Presley, painted by Nashville-area artist Wayne Brezinka, there’s something odd going on in that trademark pompadour — 40 years after the superstar’s death. The three-dimensional hair is striped with green, yellow, blue, red and white wires. Those wires were ripped from a 1950s-era phone system in the home and office […]
Remembering Jo Walker-Meador, The Matriarch Of The CMA
The Nashville business legend known as country music’s matriarch has died at the age of 93. As the director of the Country Music Association for nearly three decades, Jo Walker-Meador was critical in the founding of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the creation of the CMA Music Festival and the CMA awards […]
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