Listen American restaurants tend to serve only the kinds of seafood diners are most familiar with. But that is proving to be environmentally unsustainable, and the industry is responding. Restauranteurs are embracing a movement to serve sustainable seafood — steering clear of fish that are caught in a damaging way, taking depleted species off the […]
Nashville Chat Group For South Asian Docs Becomes A National Network For Domestic Abuse Victims
Listen Two years ago, Nashville pediatrician Vidya Bansal started a Facebook group for women like herself — specifically, doctors of South Asian heritage, living in North America, who were also mothers. The Desi Physician Moms group was a space to share the frustrations and joys of work, family and travel. But slowly, stories of domestic […]
In ‘Nashville Sound,’ Jason Isbell Explores The Mood Of Post-Trump Middle America
Listen Jason Isbell’s new album The Nashville Sound rethinks that historical phrase and sees the songwriter contemplating the mood of Middle America, post-Trump. WPLN’s Jason Moon Wilkins sat down with Isbell to discuss how the last election changed the direction of his music and how where he recorded is changing the sound of Nashville.
Freeze On Refugees Ripples Through The Nashville Nonprofits That Serve Them
Listen Nashville’s agencies that resettle refugees have taken a hit since the freeze imposed by the Trump administration. Catholic Charities had to lay off a dozen employees, and the nonprofit World Relief is closing its local office. Yet the refugees who already live here are still seeking their assistance. So the client base has ballooned […]
Nashville Police Textbook Names Their ‘Threats’: KKK, Minorities, Kids Left In Daycare
Listen On the first day of training, every new recruit in the Nashville Police Academy is issued a stack of reading materials. Right on the top is Tactical Edge, a textbook dedicated to high risk patrol. The dedication page reads: “For those officers who want to win.” The book, written by former journalist Charles Remsberg, […]
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