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Race & Equity

This is where to find WPLN’s coverage of race and ethnicity, and of questions of equity relating to both. We strive to tell stories that reflect the diversity of Middle Tennessee, empower communities of color, and explain the systems that uphold inequitable power dynamics.

We as a newsroom are thinking deeply about what stories we choose to cover, who we talk to and about what, but we know we can always do better. Read more from our news director about the work we're doing and how to get in touch.

Quick links:

  • Sigue a Nashville Noticias, donde periodistas de WPLN comparten las noticias en español dos veces a la semana.
  • Listen to Breaking Points, a special series from summer 2020 that passes the mic to Black Nashvillians.
  • We're sharing our goals and progress with you on our WPLN News transparency page. Read our annual newsroom goals and how we're keeping track of source diversity.
  • Read our latest FCC quarterly report, which includes our source diversity numbers.
  • For coverage specifically on policing and criminal justice, please refer to our Criminal Justice topic page.

What’s lost when a mobile home community is displaced? One Dickerson Pike family finds it’s more than just affordable housing.

By Alexis Marshall

January 7, 2022

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The deadline has passed for the remaining families at a mobile home community on Dickerson Pike to move out. And displaced residents are facing more than just financial hardships as their community is split up.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Dickerson Pike, workers' dignity

Over half of traffic crashes happen on 6% of Nashville streets. Officials want input on how to address it.

By Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 31, 2021

Open Streets Nashville

Since 2014, more than 400 people have been killed in traffic crashes in Nashville.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity Tagged With: Charlotte Avenue, metro, Murfreesboro Pike, Nolensville Pike, traffic, vision zero, West Trinity Lane

A Nashville leader who pushed for equity and inclusion across Metro government is stepping down

By Tony Gonzalez

December 30, 2021

Mel Fowler-Green

The leader of the Metro Human Relations Commission is stepping down after seven years in charge. Mel Fowler-Green led the small city agency as it worked on policies related to inclusion, equity, LGBTQ rights and immigrant access to government services.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: equity, Metro Human Relations Commission

New documents prove Rutherford County disproportionately jails black children, and it’s getting worse

By Meribah Knight, Ken Armstrong, PropublicaandHannah Fresques, Propublica

December 30, 2021

Rutherford County has been jailing Black children at a disproportionately high rate, according to newly obtained data. And, in a departure from national trends, the county’s racial disparity is getting worse, not better.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Rutherford County, Rutherford County juvenile justice

Four North Nashville residents receive $28,000 for arts, food and transportation projects

By Paige Pfleger

December 22, 2021

A total of $28,000 was doled out to a North Nashville yoga studio, artist residency, school transportation company and program to help feed kids.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 37208, North Nashville

Nashville’s police oversight board votes to oppose license plate readers

By Samantha Max

December 20, 2021

The civilian-run board that supervises Nashville’s police department says it does not want the city to expand its use of license plate readers.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: community oversight board, Metro Nashville Police Department

Three North Nashville councilmembers ask for $70M in covid relief for minority-owned businesses

By Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 20, 2021

After input from North Nashville residents, councilmembers are asking the city’s COVID-19 financial oversight committee to funnel $70 million toward minority businesses.

Filed Under: Business, Metro, Race & Equity Tagged With: Brandon Taylor, Jefferson Street, Jefferson Street Cap Project, Kyonzte Toombs, Nashville Metro Council, North Nashville, Sharon Hurt

Some North Nashville residents can vote on which project should get $2M, but the rules are limiting some ideas

By Ambriehl Crutchfield

December 15, 2021

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The city is trying to empower residents to create the rules and process for funding community projects in an area the city has historically neglected.

Filed Under: Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Fabian Bedne, North Nashville, participatory budgeting, Sekou Franklin, Whites Creek

Nashville preservation group ranks Second Avenue, music spaces and civil rights history among 2022 priorities

By Samantha Max

December 8, 2021

downtown nashville blast damage

The local nonprofit Historic Nashville, Inc. has chosen nine properties to work on protecting next year — with a focus on Second Avenue after it was damaged in the Christmas bombing.

Filed Under: History, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Black history, history, Nashville Christmas blast, second avenue

Displaced East Nashville mobile home tenants win compensation after a monthslong fight

By Juliana Kim

December 7, 2021

Leslie Matute

More than 20 Dickerson Pike mobile home park tenants have tentatively won compensation from W.C. Mobile Homes’ developer, but will still move out of the East Nashville park by year’s end.

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: affordable housing, Dickerson Pike, Housing

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