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‘This is not a death sentence’: Advocates want Tennessee to reexamine its HIV criminalization laws

Anna Gallegos-Cannon

August 9, 2022

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In Tennessee, people with HIV risk criminal charges if they don’t disclose their diagnosis, and advocates say it’s time for those laws to change.

Filed Under: Health Care, News Hits, WPLN News Tagged With: HIV, University of Memphis

Barbershops: A second sanctuary, or the segregated picture of America?

Tasha A.F. Lemley

August 9, 2022

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A “second sanctuary” — that’s how one of our guests describes her barbershop because these places are about much more than cutting hair. They’re about community. Barbers can take the role of a counselor, even a parent, to their customers. The shop is a place were conversations flow and don’t shy away from religion and […]

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Programs

Looking back at Robert Altman’s 1975 movie ‘Nashville’

Anna Gallegos-Cannon

August 8, 2022

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Director Robert Altman’s Nashville premiered in Nashville on August 8, 1975. The film was already doing well in New York and elsewhere, but even before then, before it even hit theaters, legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael dubbed it “the funniest epic vision of America ever to reach the screen.” Nashville would go on […]

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Bluegrass Breakdown: Revonah Records, Part One

Dave Higgs

August 6, 2022

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We’ll be jumping into the rich musical legacy of a small record company located in the hamlet of Ferndale, in the town of Liberty, New York. Between 1971 and 1987, the company issued 49 LPs featuring the likes of Roger Bellow, the Shenandoah Cutups, Walter Hensley, Clinton King, and Del McCoury. We’ll be taking a […]

Filed Under: Bluegrass Breakdown, Programs

Riding Shotgun: Shopping for school supplies, science teacher style

Khalil Ekulona

August 5, 2022

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Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, I hop out of my host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with one of our fellow Middle Tennesseans. The school year is about to begin for Metro Nashville Public Schools (and has already begun for other districts). That means it’s time for some school supplies! […]

Filed Under: Features, WPLN News

Back to school with Nashville’s teachers

Rose Gilbert

August 5, 2022

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It’s back-to-school season! Big box stores have put out special school supplies displays, and the airwaves are full of commercials for backpacks, clothes and markers. It’s a pretty familiar phenomenon, but it’s also impossible to deny that a lot has changed about education over the past few years, from the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic […]

Filed Under: Education

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