Tag Archives: civil rights
Bright & Early: Wash, Rinse, Repeat Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Jefferson Street Freedom Riders mural will be getting yet another coat of paint just two weeks after being repainted to cover up where vandals had whited out all of the black faces. This time around, which is actually the third time someone has defaced the mural since it was finished on [...]
Bright & Early: Throwing The Book Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro Nashville Public Schools released enrollment data this week that demonstrated that their rezoning plan, which has drawn quite a bit of fire from civil rights groups like the NAACP, has actually reduced the number of single-minority schools in the system. The overarching complaint about the changes has been that it promoted [...]
Bright & Early: Not For Lack Of Trying Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Since the initial conversations surrounding Metro’s school rezoning plan last year, many folks have been voicing opposition and claiming that the changes will bring segregation back into the school system. For a long time, Metro has been busing kids from North Nashville into West Nashville and Bellevue to balance out the racial [...]
Happy Hour: Skeletons In The Closet
This should make us all feel better: All of the rain has made some humain bones float into the Cumberland River, and those bones could apparently be 6,000 years old. Who the heck was in Tennessee 6,000 years ago besides the dinosaurs!? [WSMV]
If you frequent the downtown YMCA, you may notice that it’s closed. It [...]
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