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Arts, Culture & Music

A Nashville program turns native Spanish speakers into teachers, building community and economic empowerment in the process

By Alexis Marshall

March 4, 2022

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Voces de Nashville hopes to connect more English-speaking residents with the city’s growing Latino population, while expanding job opportunities for historically marginalized women.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Education, Spanish-language

Davidson County art teachers reflect on the challenges of the pandemic in new Frist exhibition

By Paige Pfleger

March 3, 2022

A new Frist exhibition features the work of 33 Davidson County art teachers in a celebration of how educators helped students navigate through a difficult and unprecedented time in the pandemic.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Art, Education, Frist Art Museum, teachers

A return to (something like) normal for Nashville churches as Lent begins and the latest COVID surge recedes

By Rachel Iacovone

March 2, 2022

Well-attended Fat Tuesday events spoke to the sense of normalcy heading into the current Lenten season compared to Lents of recent pandemic years.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, Fat Tuesday, Lent, Mardi Gras

More states are trying to keep guns away from people who might do harm, but the push in Tennessee faces an uphill battle

By Paige Pfleger

March 1, 2022

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If passed, Tennessee’s Extreme Risk Protection Order, or Red Flag, law would allow a family member or law enforcement to petition the court to separate someone from their guns who is at extreme risk of harming themselves, or others.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Criminal Justice, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Gun culture, gun laws, gun violence

Listen: At Southern Word’s annual BlackLift Poetry House, youth share words about Black history and resiliency

By Damon Mitchell

February 28, 2022

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The youth poetry performance brought out more than a dozen residents.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: nonnarrated storytelling

A crackly recording from 1912 illustrates the importance of the Fisk Jubilee Quartet

By Paige Pfleger

February 25, 2022

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One of the oldest recordings of the Fisk Jubilee Quartet recently resurfaced, underlining the group’s historic importance to the Black community.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Fisk Jubilee Singers, Fisk University

Nashville Food Project founder Tallu Schuyler Quinn remembered for her ‘ordinary goodness’

By Blake Farmer

February 18, 2022

Tallu Schuyler Quinn
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Since July 2020, Tallu Schuyler Quinn chronicled her experience enduring an aggressive brain cancer. And on Thursday night, the founder of the Nashville Food Project died surrounded by her family.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: food waste, Margaret Renkl, Tallu Schuyler Quinn, The Nashville Food Project

Nashville’s music venues start rolling back COVID policies amid falling case counts

By Paige Pfleger

February 14, 2022

Exit/In music venue

It has been a long, difficult road for Nashville’s independent music venues. While the pandemic isn’t over, venue operators are excited about an upcoming milestone – rolling back their COVID policies and restrictions.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Exit/In, Music Venue Alliance Nashville, music venues

Mother of Waffle House shooting victim tries to find hope through her sorrow after the trial

By Paige Pfleger

February 11, 2022

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The jury’s decision to convict Travis Reinking of four counts of murder marked an end to a painful chapter. But for the families who lost loved ones, it isn’t over. It won’t ever really be. They still have to live with their grief.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: gun violence, nonnarrated storytelling, Waffle House shooting

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