What are we doing to keep the connections to Nashville’s civil rights past alive? Plus, your local newscast for April 24, 2024.
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.
A shattered Civil Rights Era plaque picks up ‘a new life’ in Fisk collection
Bits of a granite sign commemorating a Civil Rights Era march in Nashville were used to vandalize the Nashville Courthouse 60 years later. Now the remains are on display at Fisk University.
To honor Civil Rights leader Diane Nash, Nashville leaders pivot from naming a park to a plaza
After a failed attempt to rename a Nashville park after civil rights icon Diane Nash, a member of the Metro Council is trying a different approach.
Metro Parks Board won’t alter its rules to name a park after civil rights icon Diane Nash
Some members of the Metro Parks Board were unwilling to waive a rule to rename Nashville’s Public Square Park after Diane Nash.
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