Music
Record Store Day Celebrated in East Nashville
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — April 13th was Record Store Day and The Groove, an East Nashville store dealing in new and used vinyl LPs celebrated the day with a bash. Nine live bands […]
Articles by Clare Bratten
Health & Wellness
Educating People of High Risk During Kidney Disease Month
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — Are your ankles swelling? Swollen ankles might be an early sign of kidney disease, according to Dr. Francesca Tentori, a Vanderbilt nephrology instructor and medical director of outcomes research […]
Nashville
Historic Edgehill Wants a William Edmondson Park
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — Neighbors of the Edgehill area are using visioning sessions to try to control and restrain efforts by MHDA and the city to sell or develop a site in a […]
Health & Wellness
Nashville’s Medical Safety Net Clinic for the Working Poor
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — Despite the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), some folks are still uninsured or underinsured. Faith Family Medical Center was created to do something about that. It could be considered a […]
Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Examines its Past With Honors for Black Alumni/Faculty
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — Vanderbilt University has been taking a hard look at its own history and challenges faced by its African American students and faculty. “There are these figures who have been […]
Tennessee
Election “Rigging” Alleged in Maury County
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — A Maury County woman says she’s complaining to state election officials about what she calls “rigging” of the August 2018 election for county commission. “If I go through the […]
Featured
New College Prep Aims to Outperform Privileged Zip Codes
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — Following a strong turnaround in test scores from children from low income families and diverse backgrounds in Valor Voyager Middle School, the charter school organization opened a new college […]
Education
Dr. Joseph Cautions Against Quick Fixes for Under Performing Metro Schools
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — Superintendent of Metro Nashville Public Schools Dr. Shawn Joseph led a presentation to a packed audience of educators, media and parents why some 21 Nashville area schools had been […]
Local Religion
Pioneer All Souls Church is Planted in North Nashville
By Clare Bratten NASHVILLE, TN — James Baldwin once said “. . . as Malcolm X once put it, the most segregated hour in American life is high noon on Sunday.” Kirk Adkisson and his […]
Tennessee
Slave Sales, Slave Labor Used by State Institutions
By Clare Bratten FRANKLIN, TN – People who think that Tennessee was not so heavily involved in the slave trade as other states in the Deep South are mistaken according to historian Bill Carey. Carey […]
