A federal appeals court has re-instated Tennessee’s restrictions on drag performances. Thursday’s order reverses a district court ruling last year, which had prevented the ban from taking effect.
Tennessee won’t purge voter rolls of people who disregard a letter asking them to prove citizenship
Tennessee elections officials say any state registered voters among the thousands recently asked to prove their citizenship can stay on the voting rolls even if they don’t respond to the request.
In Tennessee case, federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one’s sex on a birth certificate
The majority opinion of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found, “There is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex.”
Why Nashville’s Civil Rights era bombings have never been solved
During the Civil Rights era, white supremacists bombed Nashville three times, attacking a school, a Jewish Community Center and the home of civil rights attorney Z. Alexander Looby. Those bombers were never caught.
Nashville mayor asks MNPD to reopen unsolved Civil Rights-era bombings
A series of unsolved bombings in Nashville during the Civil Rights era may be reopened. Mayor Freddie O’Connell called on Nashville’s police chief to devote resources to answering who was behind the attacks.
‘Dynamite Nashville’ pieces together what happened in the Nashville bombings
Throughout history, some high-profile incidents in Nashville and the surrounding area have played a pivotal role in the struggle for racial equality in the United States.
What is Thrive? Inside Metro Arts’ closely scrutinized, equity-focused funding program
The program’s future is in question because of its direct support of projects by individual artists, which might violate state law.
Some Nashville artists will get additional payments, resolving a discrimination complaint against Metro Arts
Nashville’s Metro Human Relations Commission has approved a resolution to a discrimination complaint filed last fall against Metro Arts.
‘I don’t need to go any further’: One woman finds herself home
Homelessness is often the result of a culmination of several events in a person’s life. As we have heard throughout This Is Nashville‘s housing series, In My Place, people can quickly struggle to maintain stable housing when a financial, medical or personal crisis hits.
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