What are we doing to keep the connections to Nashville’s civil rights past alive? Plus, your local newscast for April 24, 2024.
What you missed from week 2 of Tennessee’s task force on rejecting federal education funds
Catch up on everything from parent concerns about civil rights protections to lingering questions about federal requirements.
After years of preservation efforts, downtown Nashville’s Morris Memorial Building heads toward redevelopment
One of downtown Nashville’s oldest buildings looks to be headed for redevelopment, as a hotel-development company is currently under contract to acquire the building.
‘We’ve been cheated’: TSU students escalate their calls for the state to make up for $2.1B in underfunding
A prominent civil rights attorney has met with TSU leaders about how to address an estimated $2.1 billion in underfunding from the state. Ben Crump says students have legal pathways to obtain the money if negotiations with legislators don’t work out.
Jefferson Cowie on the history of freedom and federal power in America
What is freedom? And what happens when one person’s approach to freedom infringes on another person’s civil liberties? These are the central questions in Jefferson Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. In this work, Cowie zeroes in on Barbour County, Alabama, and its relationship with federal power and freedom, from […]
The Woolworth building is a key civil rights site. Preserving that history has been fraught with uncertainty.
Whatever business prints 221 Rep. John Lewis Way on its business cards — now or in the future — the old Woolworth building in downtown Nashville will forever be connected to the 1960 sit-ins.
Remembering the Nashville sit-ins
In this episode, we hear from three Nashvillians participated in the sit-ins, which marked a turning point in the struggle for racial equality in Nashville, the South and the country at large.
Diane Nash says she shares her Presidential Medal of Freedom with everyone who ‘sacrificed so much for the cause’
President Biden presented a Nashville Civil Rights leader with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House Thursday.
Exploring the legacy of Nashville’s Freedom Riders
In today’s episode, we explore the legacy of Nashville’s Freedom Riders with poets and a journalist. Then we’re joined by a local Civil Rights activist to learn more about her participation in the sit-ins and the role that education plays in preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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