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‘It is built on a rock’: A historic Black church in Hendersonville reflects on the legacy buried in its foundation

Rose Gilbert

December 7, 2022

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This Is Nashville producer Rose Gilbert reports from Sunday service at St. John Missionary Baptist Church, a historic Black church located in Hendersonville.

Filed Under: Pin Drop, Programs, Race & Equity Tagged With: Black churches, church, Emancipation

What an elusive island on the Cumberland tells us about Nashville’s first big business — buying and selling enslaved people

Andrea Tudhope

November 30, 2022

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You wouldn’t know by looking at it today, but Hill’s Island has an important story to tell about Nashville’s role in the trade of enslaved people.

Filed Under: History, Pin Drop, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Cumberland River, enslaved people, history

Native Americans were forced to travel through Nashville on the Trail of Tears. A remnant of the bridge they crossed remains downtown.

Steve Haruch

October 18, 2022

Native American historian Toye Heape, wearing a plaid shirt and a Native History Association T-shirt, stands in front of a railing; in the near distance, there is stone structure that was once part of a bridge.
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Nearly 200 years ago, a thousand Cherokee people crossed the Cumberland River in Nashville on their way to modern-day Oklahoma. Now, very little remains of this portion of the Trail of Tears.

Filed Under: History, Pin Drop, WPLN News

The country’s first Black-founded fair started in Middle Tennessee. Its legacy lives on from Gallatin to Detroit.

Rose Gilbert

August 31, 2022

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If you drive out to Gallatin and go down Blythe Street, you’ll come across an empty lot sandwiched between a housing development and a barbecue joint. It may not look like much, but this lot was the site of America’s oldest Black-founded fair.

Filed Under: Pin Drop, Programs, WPLN News

Middle Tennessee researchers are studying rare, wild ginseng in a secret location

Steve Haruch

July 28, 2022

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“There’s kind of a legend about ginseng,” according to Ethan Swiggart, a plant scientist at Middle Tennessee State University. The legend goes something like this: Ginseng “shows itself to you.” And if you’re not ready? Then you won’t find it. I’m hoping that’s not the case today.

Filed Under: Pin Drop, WPLN News Tagged With: conservation, ginseng, Pin Drop, This Is Nashville

‘This is ours’: Promise Land, Tennessee, lives on through descendants of the formerly enslaved people who founded it

Andrea Tudhope

June 30, 2022

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After emancipation, Tennessee did not make it easy for formerly enslaved people to realize their full freedoms. So, some took matters into their own hands.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, History, Pin Drop, Race & Equity

A mosaic project at Elizabeth Park honors African American women of North Nashville

Steve Haruch

May 20, 2022

The side of Elizabeth Park senior center, featuring a series of wood mosaics portraying African American women of North Nashville.
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On Monday, five women were honored in a ceremony at Elizabeth Park, located at the intersection of Arthur Avenue, Jane Street and 11th Avenue North, in the historically Black neighborhood of North Nashville.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Pin Drop, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: M. Simone Boyd, mosaic, North Nashville

Bass Street was home to Nashville’s first post-Emancipation Black neighborhood. Descendants want to keep its memory alive

Khalil Ekulona, Steve HaruchandAndrea Tudhope

April 4, 2022

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The Bass Street neighborhood was first settled by some of the formerly enslaved people who had helped build Fort Negley and defend it against the Confederacy. Today, Bass Street is barely a street at all, a stretch of just a thousand feet or so.

Filed Under: Pin Drop Tagged With: Bass Street

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