For over 40 years, Ann Powers has been writing about music and pop culture for publications across the country. And she now calls Nashville her home. So, what stories does she have about her storied career? And after living in San Francisco and New York, what does she think of our city?
Nashville’s Parthenon Museum considers repatriating pre-Columbian artifacts to Mexico
NPR’s Scott Detrow talks to assistant curator at Nashville’s Parthenon Museum about her idea to repatriate hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts back to Mexico.
Victor Wooten, Bach, & Gospel Marching Band
Grammy Award-winning bass player Victor Wooten joins “From the Top” for our exciting musical journey out of Nashville, and we meet the drum major from Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands.
A huge solar storm is slamming into the Earth. Scientists say you should look up.
An aurora could be visible as far south as Northern California. Experts say the storm could disrupt some communications and navigation systems like GPS.
After calls for gun safety, Tennessee votes to arm teachers
Tennessee passed a bill package expanding gun access, including a measure allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools — despite calls for gun safety legislation after the Covenant school shooting.
AI music isn’t going away. Here are 4 big questions about what’s next.
Tennessee just passed the first U.S. law regulating generative AI in music. But the technology, adept at copying real artists’ voices and styles, is moving too quickly for one law to keep up with.
Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong.
The nation’s historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.
The 14th Amendment
Of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 14th is a big one. It’s shaped all of our lives, whether we realize it or not: Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, Bush v. Gore, plus other Supreme Court cases that legalized same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, access to birth control — they’ve all been built on the back of the 14th.
The amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it’s packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?
Today on the show: how the 14th Amendment has remade America – and how America has remade the 14th.
Seeking to defy history, the UAW is coming closer to unionizing in the South
Autoworkers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., will vote in mid-April on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. Mercedes workers in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., will soon follow.
Tracing the history of Latino artists making country music
The release of Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has sparked a national conversation about who gets to sing country music and the complex roots of the genre. Which got Alt.Latino thinking — what about the Latinos in country?
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