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NashVillager Podcast: Williamson County and the Confederate flag

Nina Cardona

April 22, 2025

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How do you change a county’s seal? Plus, the local news for April 22, 2025.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate, Williamson County

NashVillager Podcast: Sam Davis, retold

Nina Cardona

November 27, 2024

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How much of a hero was the Boy Hero of the Confederacy, really? Plus the local news for November 27, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate

NashVillager Podcast: The Confederate ghost who won’t stop haunting Middle Tennessee

Nina Cardona

August 28, 2024

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When will we be honest about what monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest are honoring? Plus the local news for August 28, 2024.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate, Forrest Hall, KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, racism

Friends remember Franklin historian, preservationist and ‘scribbler’ Robert Hicks

Julia Ritchey

March 17, 2022

Friends are remembering author and local historian Robert Hicks, who died last month at the age 71.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: authors, Battle of Franklin, Confederate, Fort Negley

Vote To Remove Rebel Flag From Williamson County Seal Delayed For Sons Of Confederate Veterans

Paige Pfleger

August 30, 2021

Williamson County will have to wait until February 2022 at the earliest to get approval to remove the Confederate flag from its seal.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate, Tennessee Historical Commission, Williamson County

Now That The Forrest Bust Has Been Removed, What Confederate Symbols Might Be Next?

Paige Pfleger

August 4, 2021

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The focus is shifting to other Confederate symbols, and four other campaigns may use the bust’s removal as a roadmap.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee Historical Commission, Williamson County

Tennessee Removed One Confederate Monument, Yet An Entrenched State Law Still Holds Sway

Paige Pfleger

August 3, 2021

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The bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest has been removed from the Tennessee State Capitol. But the law passed to protect it is unlikely to change in the near future.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee Politics, Tennessee State Capitol

After Decades-Long Fight, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Bust Is Out Of The Tennessee Capitol

Paige Pfleger

July 22, 2021

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For decades, activists pushed for the bust of a slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan to be removed from the state capitol, but a 2013 law made the process lengthy and arduous. On July 22, 2021, the majority of the state building commission voted to move the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest to the Tennessee State Museum, and it was gone the next morning.

Filed Under: History, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, Brenda Gilmore, Confederate, Confederate generals, KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee State Capitol

Remains Of Confederate General Exhumed For Relocation To Middle Tennessee

Chas Sisk

June 14, 2021

The group responsible for relocating the monument of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest say the remains of Forrest and his wife are gone from a Memphis park.

Filed Under: History, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate, Confederate generals, KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, slavery

We Checked In On A Dozen Demands Made By Black Lives Matter Protesters In Nashville. Here’s Where They Stand.

Alexis Marshall

May 27, 2021

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It’s been a year since the murder of George Floyd prompted widespread demands for change, especially to policing and monuments associated with white supremacy. WPLN News is taking stock of how officials have responded.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, community oversight board, Confederate, Mayor John Cooper, Metro budget, Metro Nashville Police Department, Metro Police, Nashville Peoples Budget, Nathan Bedford Forrest

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