Nashville is known as the “Athens of the South” in part because it is home to so many colleges and universities. That means it’s also home to lots of young, first-time voters today. I cast my ballot this morning at my polling location on Belmont University’s campus, where I saw some students have made this […]
Tennessee statehouse races to keep an eye on as Election Day approaches
As early voting winds down Thursday, here are a few state races to watch this election season.
Rideshare drivers strike at Nashville airport as Labor Day travel begins
Members of the newly formed Tennessee Drivers Union are on strike for better pay and better conditions.
Heading farther into the field than ever before
In just a couple short weeks, I will be traveling to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and Nashville’s newest sister city.
Olympics gold for Tennessee athletes — and other results (updated)
Tennesseans are making an impact at the Olympics in Paris.
For Nashville’s Kurdish community, clothing and culture are interwoven
For Nashville’s Kurdish community — a people whose culture has historically come under fire — clothing is a tangible way of preserving their traditions.
Tennessee Democrats condemn neo-Nazis who yelled slurs at Black children in downtown Nashville
White supremacists have made several appearances in Nashville over the past few weeks: marching with swastika flags, interrupting a Metro Council meeting and, last Saturday, screaming racial slurs at a group of young, Black boys who were playing drums downtown.
A new wave of Kurds fleeing Turkey bring their own sound to Music City
Nashville has the largest Kurdish population of any city in the U.S., and most are from the Iraqi region of Kurdistan, also known as Bashur. They arrived in waves starting in the 1970s, with the largest influx prompted by Saddam Hussein’s genocidal campaigns in the late 1980s and early ’90s.
‘It has its roots in the blood of Black folks’: Community leaders take a stand for Nashville’s police review board
A retired police lieutenant alleged that at least two top police officials worked with state lawmakers to dissolve the Community Oversight Board charged with keeping them accountable. Now a second complaint has been filed, and the newly constituted board has set up a confidential hotline for other police employees to share concerns.
Timeline: Nashville’s 50-year fight for a police oversight board, and how it continues today
Recent allegations in an MNPD internal affairs complaint are the latest in a tense history of Nashvillians fighting for police oversight.
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