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MondayOctober 21, 2024

Highlights: Profiles

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It’s highlights week here at This Is Nashville. Today, we’ve compiled clips from some of our weekly in-depth profiles of interesting people with ties to the Nashville community.

You’ll hear from local chaplain and trans rights advocate Dahron Anneliese Johnson, preeminent TSU professor and historian Dr. Learotha Williams, journalist and ghost writer Nancy French, and singer, author, actor and speaker Pat Boone.

This episode was produced by Tasha A.F. Lemley.

GUESTS

  • Dahron Anneliese Johnson | Chaplain and trans rights advocate
  • Pat Boone | Singer, author, actor and speaker
  • Nancy French | Journalist and author
  • Dr. Learotha Williams, Professor of African American History, Tennessee State University; North Nashville Heritage Project

FURTHER LISTENING

  • Pat Boone’s new song “Where Did America Go?” is available on YouTube and all other streaming platforms.
  • WPLN | TSU Professor Battles ‘Concerted Effort To Erase Black People’ From Nashville History

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