By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Reyna Roberts, upcoming Epic Records country music artist, talks about her recently released single, upcoming album, writing process, and what her experience has been in Nashville trying to make it in Music City’s music industry as a Black woman. Born in Alaska but largely growing up in California before moving to Nashville, Roberts would receive recognition from numerous women in country music early in her career, such names including Mickey Guyton, Reba McEntire, Jamey Johnson, and Carrie Underwood. After discovering newfound support from industry heroes, fans, and family, Roberts decided to move to Nashville…
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By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Civic TN accuses the Tennessee State Senate of evading meaningful discussion surrounding common sense gun reform as the state’s most recent special session continues. The non-partisan civic engagement coalition says that lawmakers are failing at fairly representing the priorities of Tennesseans by delaying steps contributing to long-standing legislative change. Civic TN Executive Director Matia Powell also said that the Senate has been actively attempting to stifle criticism against the bill from both common citizens and state representatives. The special session was called following the devastating shooting at Covenant School which killed six people. A…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville Justice League has just welcomed another group endorsing Freddie O’Connell in the coming runoff election taking place September 14th. Music City Musicians, an assembly of local Nashville musicians, publicly endorsed the progressive candidate and his approach to supporting the creative working class. Lisa Sherman Luna, Executive Director of TIRRC Votes of Nashville Justice League said that O’Connell was the obvious choice for the organization and anyone else concerned for the living conditions of the every-person. “We need to create the conditions so that folks who are trying to make it in our city,…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — It was 50 years ago on August 11, 1973 when young Jamaican-born New Yorker DJ Kool Herc was throwing a house party in the South Bronx. It was his sister’s graduation party, and in providing music for the event, Herc began playing on a pair of turntables. As the party flooded with people around him, Herc would isolate and repeat musical breaks, as well as provide spoken word over the tracks. The party was when Hip-Hop would be formally established and laid the bones for what the genre would be during its early days—…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — The state of Tennessee has just received a lawsuit accusing the Tennessee State Legislature of violating the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment rights of “Black voters and other voters of color.” The lawsuit claims that “the state’s Congressional and State Senate districts make unlawful use of the race and subordinates traditional redistricting principles to race,” therefore violating basic rights guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution. Spearheading the lawsuit are several social rights advocacy leaders working in tandem with one another, including the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, League of Women Voters of Tennessee,…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Lovers of independently owned Nashville Black Business celebrate the second release of the Nashville Black Business Coupon Book with a kickoff party filled with families, fun, music, and, naturally, small businesses selling their unique items. The coupon book provides buyers with a wide array of coupons available to spend at over 75 businesses spanning a variety of industries and offers a total of over $800 worth of savings. The project is a joint effort between two locally beloved Nashvillian entrepreneurs, Thomas Kelly of Creative Soulz and Danielle McGee of Black Business Boom, who together…
By Logan Langlois MURFREESBORO, TN — Civil rights representative Sheryl Huff of the National Action Network, has sounded the alarm around a Department of Child Services case quickly being revealed as a possible violation of local Murfreesboro resident, Brenda Johnson’s, civil rights. Her questions begin with the department’s taking of Johnson’s children, since which Huff claims, Johnson says she has not received regular updates regarding their well-being, nor consistent communication as promised by state agents. Huff also claims that DCS has been consistently changing their reasons for keeping Johnson’s children based on what charges they feel they can best make…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — In 2022, Mayor John Cooper announced his upcoming Prosper Nashville: Building an Economy for All, a plan that has the goal of bringing together Nashvillian stakeholders and closing some of the wealth disparity which has grown more dramatic as the city itself has grown in size. This coming together will hopefully inspire an action-oriented and forward-moving community who are more reflective of Nashville’s increasingly diversifying communities and will help build an economy that is resilient and bountiful to all who make it up. The plan is in response to alarming statistics regarding the inclusivity…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — OZ Arts Nashville welcomes Past, Present, & Afrofuturism, a visual art exhibit featuring works by XPayne, a well-accomplished artist whose work can be found across the country, from Slim and Husky’s Pizza Beerias to HBO’s Insecure. In the journey that XPayne has carefully crafted together throughout the exhibit, visitors follow him while he explores the Black American narrative. Visitors begin their journey at the narrative’s inception and are taken through how it’s been influenced by modern times and what it faces during an unknown future. The exhibit is separated into three parts; Past, Present;…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Meet Burkley Allen, Nashville Metro Council Member-at-large running for her second consecutive term at the upcoming August 3, 2023, Metro general election that will be deciding the next mayor, vice mayor, Metro councilmember at-large, and district council members of Music City. Beginning her career representing Nashvillians in 2011, Allen served as the Belmont-Hillsboro area’s District 18 Councilmember for eight years until she was elected to her current council member-at-large position. During that time, she has sponsored legislation improving stormwater regulation in neighborhoods, protecting sidewalk and bikeway access in construction zones, and has been actively…