The mission of Neon Moon is to make supporting the I in BIPOC as easy as buying a cup of coffee.
What a proposed complex in North Nashville illuminates about affordable housing and systemic racism
Claudia Wright moved to the Clay Mill Station subdivision eight years ago.
Nashville’s new Black symphony is powered by a love of classical music, and hopes to make it more representative
The new Nashville African American Wind Symphony is made up of 52 Black classical musicians. Some are doctors. Others are lawyers, educators, engineers and politicians. Many studied music in college but set down their instruments years ago.
This Native American Heritage Month, a Nashville gallery is celebrating with a photography exhibit that indigenizes colonized spaces
COOP Curatorial Collective is celebrating National Native American Heritage Month by bringing more context to Thanksgiving with an exhibit from Apsáalooke (Crow) photographer Adam Sings in the Timber called “Reclaim: Indigenizing Colonized Spaces.”
Centuries after the Trail of Tears, Tennesseans honor the legacy of tribal members
Tribal members were forced to leave their homelands — including Tennessee — and relocate west of the Mississippi River.
A Tennessee man has been spared from execution, yet his attorneys still want to prove his innocence
When Pervis Payne walked into a Memphis courtroom on Tuesday morning, he hugged his attorney and sobbed.
A second seat opens on the Nashville Fair Board after stalemate over who has power
The Nashville board that oversees the Fairgrounds has yet another opening.
Tennessee revises its enforcement of law prohibiting classroom discussions about race and bias
It’s part of legislation passed this spring to limit classroom discussions around racism, white privilege and unconscious bias.
About 50% of Nashvillians are paying too much for housing, yet one of the city’s key strategies is falling short
In its first meeting in December, Nashville’s Metro Council will decide whether the city should put $10 million in federal COVID-19 relief into the city’s fund for affordable housing.
Memphis DA agrees to drop man’s death sentence, following new law barring executions of people with intellectual disabilities
Pervis Payne was sentenced to death in 1988 for killing a woman and her daughter. Since his conviction, courts have ruled that people with intellectual disabilities should not be executed.
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