The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care is constitutional. Some families of transgender kids have left the state.
In rural West Tennessee, racial healing is a group effort
Growing racial diversity in rural towns has led to efforts to improve racial understanding. The Weakley County Reconciliation Project in Tennessee is one such group.
A 13-year-old with autism got arrested after his backpack sparked fear. Only his stuffed bunny was inside.
Disability rights advocates said kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilities. It didn’t work.
For years, Fancy Hagood faced prejudice and pop detours. Now he’s back to country music, and finally feeling less alone.
Fancy Hagood left small-town Arkansas to make music at age 17. He’s faced prejudice in Nashville and L.A., but on his sophomore album, “American Spirit,” the openly gay country-pop singer-songwriter shows how far he’s actually come.
Widely varied opinions flood Metro Arts meeting on grant funding
After months of confusion and delays, Metro Arts is one step closer to funding artists and arts nonprofits for the current fiscal year. Last week, the city agency was explaining its reworked grant funding plan and gathering feedback at a series of community listening sessions.
Racist text messages referencing slavery raise alarms in multiple states and prompt investigations
The messages, sent anonymously, were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Some said the recipient was going to a “plantation” and instructed them to show up at an address at a particular time “with your belongings.”
Disenfranchised Tennesseans can vote in this election, Nashville judge rules
Monday’s ruling has opened the door for disenfranchised Tennesseans to cast a ballot, but the final decision still rests in the state election commission’s hands.
Spitting on Andrew Jackson’s grave with Rebecca Nagle
That’s how Nagle begins her new book and how she frames the version of history she’s telling. The book digs into the past and future of Native sovereignty through the lens of one of the most significant Supreme Court rulings for Native Americans in over 100 years.
‘We want people to hear our voices’: Election Day inside a Nashville jail
Election Day is one week away for the majority of Nashvillians. But for people incarcerated in Davidson County’s jails, in-person voting happens one week earlier, on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
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