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Juneteenth

Interactive map: 50+ 2022 Juneteenth celebrations happening in Middle TN

Cindy AbramsandJackie Llanos

June 16, 2022

As the popularity of Juneteenth has continued to grow, WPLN News has compiled 50 events and counting for the holiday happening across Middle Tennessee. Many are being organized by Black-led organizations.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Emancipation, Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth, map, Race, slavery

Teacher raises, tax cuts, Titans dome are in Tennessee’s $53 billion budget. Here’s some of what didn’t make the cut.

Blaise Gainey

April 21, 2022

The budget includes money for a new Titans stadium, tax cuts, adds to the state’s rainy-day fund, and includes funds for public school teacher raises. But some items from the governor’s wish list didn’t make the cut.  

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 112th Tennessee General Assembly, Juneteenth, teacher pay, Tennessee Titans, Waverly

Metro makes Juneteenth an official holiday for city employees

Paige Pfleger

April 12, 2022

Juneteenth will be a formal holiday for all Metro Nashville employees starting this year. The holiday commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans after the end of the Civil War.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: John Cooper, Juneteenth

After pushback, Nashville council decides to spend city money, not federal dollars, on police Tasers

Ambriehl Crutchfield

January 5, 2022

A Metro Nashville police car

Nashville’s police department wanted almost $6 million for new Tasers and had requested it come from the federal COVID relief money the city had been allocated. But Metro Council got pushback from the community and within its chambers on what the city’s priorities are for the pandemic money.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Metro Tagged With: Juneteenth, Knowles home, Metro Government, Metro Nashville Police Department, Metro Police, Nashville police, police, Tasers

Black Tennesseans Take Ownership of Juneteenth Through Good Food, Music, Company — And History

Damon Mitchell

June 21, 2021

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Juneteenth has historically been a day that most people didn’t know existed. But this year, it was met with widespread recognition, as thousands of residents flocked to celebrations across Middle Tennessee.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Emancipation, Juneteenth, nonnarrated storytelling, Race

People Came From Around The Country To Celebrate Juneteenth At Nashville’s Museum Of African American Music

Paige Pfleger

June 19, 2021

The National Museum of African American Music drew crowds from Harlem, Atlanta and all around Tennessee for its inaugural Juneteenth Block Party on the rooftop of the Fifth and Broadway development in Downtown Nashville.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Juneteenth, National Museum of African American Music, nmaam, Race

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