Listen Before launching her own tour company, Chakita Patterson regularly took walking tours in Nashville and other cities, and noticed a trend: “They only had one ‘black fact.’ “
Davis Cup Protest Of 1978 Echo Today’s Free Speech And Sports Clashes
Listen Belmont University is hosting Davis Cup tennis matches this week, marking the return of one of the sports premier showcases to Nashville for the first time in 40 years. In 1978, professional tennis was more popular and the participants more noteworthy, but it was off-the-court clashes which earned the event international attention.
Listen: A 93-Year-Old’s Nashville Accent Lives On, Even As Dialects Fade
Listen Nashville — like most locales — is losing its accents. Distinctive voices are diffusing in a modern world with mass media and transient lifestyles. But one 93-year-old is keeping the sound of old Nashville alive.
Historic Nashville Goes All In To Guard Fort Negley
Usually, the nonprofit called Historic Nashville selects nine sites around the city that it thinks are endangered and should be preserved. This year, it selected one: Fort Negley.
Curious Nashville: Why One Of Metro’s Strangest Buildings Sits Empty
The ship-shaped former Naval Reserve Training Center received historic landmark status in 2015, but its story doesn’t end there.
Graduate Of First Integrated Class In The South Talks Desegregation With Tennessee Teachers
Listen Sixty years ago, Bobby Cain became the first African-American man to graduate from an integrated high school in the South. Just one year prior, he and 11 other black students had enrolled at Clinton High School in East Tennessee. They became known as the Clinton 12.
Remains of Vietnam War Veteran to Return To Middle Tennessee After 50 Years
Listen A former Murfreesboro soldier is coming home. Technical Sergeant William O’Kieff died in a plane crash during the Vietnam War. It would take nearly 50 years for his remains to be identified.
Tennessee Historians Are Still Tracking Casualties, A Century After World War I
Listen Historians are leading a movement to add more names to the bronze plaques at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium, as part of the centennial commemoration of World War I.
On 100th Anniversary Of World War I, Tennessee Shares Digitized Mementos Of Its Fallen Soldiers
Listen Here’s an example of remarkable foresight: Within two months of the end of World War I, the state of Tennessee began diligently collecting records from so-called “gold star families” — those that lost sons in the war.
Tennessee Legislators Vote To Move President Polk’s Grave
Tennessee lawmakers have taken the first step toward exhuming the remains of President James K. Polk and moving him to a family home in Columbia, Tennessee.
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