At @nashvillebanner.bsky.social it’s our end of year fundraiser. Nonprofit news with no paywall and this helps us stay that way. Please subscribe or give $$ if you can. Or repost this and I will offer a Thing To Do In Nashville for each one. nashville-public-media.fundjournalism.org/makeagift/?c...

📢 We’re thrilled to announce $3.5M in grants to three organizations joining our portfolio: @cardinalnews.org, @civilbeat.bsky.social and @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! This funding will help these newsrooms grow sustainably and better serve their communities with trusted #localnews. Learn more:

In Woodbine, a small group of volunteers rides bikes throughout the neighborhood, distributing food and Narcan, fighting huge problems. Woodbine doesn’t have a major grocery store, and after recent deaths, the neighborhood’s unhoused community fear for their lives. ✏️: @mikeiereiland.bsky.social

A Banner analysis of 1,700 pages of incident reports from the May ICE sting shows that the Tennessee Highway Patrol rarely documented traffic stops. Of the 607 total reports, only approximately 14% provided a reason for the initial traffic stop.

Citations for trash, debris or inoperable cars on your property can lead to $50 fines a day until you’re in compliance. For elderly, cost-burdened homeowners in Nashville, this can be make or break. A new private-public-nonprofit partnership seeks to remediate code violations for these homeowners.

our coverage of the historic turnout:

The Eighteenth Avenue Family Enrichment Center has been a staple of North Nashville in one form or another for nearly 100 years. That kind of staying power is significant in a neighborhood that’s been through so much change, and it’s not by happenstance: generations of neighbors kept it going.

Great story by @andreatudhope.bsky.social on a true treasure of North Nashville.

Huge congrats to a plucky startup that employs some of the best journalists in this town.

@theajp.bsky.social cited the Banner's "ambitious vision, commitment to community-centered and multimedia reporting, and rapid progress," as setting "an inspiring example for the field."

At just a year and a half in, this is a huge affirmation for the Banner. @ajpseditor.bsky.social recognized the reach and strength of our reporting, pointing especially to our community engagement efforts, which we’ve woven into everything we do. I am so proud of our team.

Some news: We received a $1.2M grant [email protected] to expand our statehouse & local coverage — including new beats in health, housing & environment to deepen civic engagement in Middle TN. The funding boosts our revenue team for a stronger, sustainable newsroom primed for growth.

This report by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social raises troubling questions about the role of the landlord in the federal raid on the apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive. Agents "appear to have received advance information about the building’s occupants that led them to target certain apartments"

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Nashville’s second No Kings protest drew thousands of residents, united in their anger at the Trump administration and its platform. ✏️: @ejturner02.bsky.social

Halfway into his term, how is Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell doing? Let us know what you think by filling out our community survey.

Niechie Baker hosts the Girlz Like Me after school program to help young girls in Nashville’s Napier neighborhood learn new skills and reimagine their futures. ✏️: @ejturner02.bsky.social

A new court watch group in Nashville hopes to hold judges and the criminal justice system accountable, educate the public on issues, and help Nashville’s citizens understand what they are voting for. ✏️: @mikeiereiland.bsky.social

We're 75% of the way there. 🦅 Our campaign to add 400 new readers ends October 3rd. As a reminder, we publish free local news for Nashvillians who want to stay informed on what’s going on in their city. Share our daily newsletter, The Flyer, with a friend today! Sign up: tinyurl.com/flyer615

Lacking bus stop infrastructure and the removal of downtown benches has fueled a guerilla bench movement, bringing together a new coalition to build and place wooden benches across the city.

I'm biased, but I think the Nashville Banner is the best source for Nashville and Tennessee news. There's no paywall on the stories, and the daily morning newsletter is free, too. It includes our stories plus exclusive news blurbs and links. Sign up here:

Meet Banner courts reporter Mikeie Honda Reiland, a Nashville native who’s written magazine pieces for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social and @bittersouth.bsky.social. ✏️: mikeiereiland.bsky.social

WeGo and mayor’s office representatives are outlining the free bus fare program for low-income riders funded by the 2024 transit referendum and set for implementation in the coming months.

"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says

Photos from friends at the Melbourne Pro Palestine March. Approx 30,000 people they say

I really feel like people don’t know what prolonged starvation means because there is a point that even when a body receives food it cannot digest it. This means that it doesn’t matter if aid is dropped from the sky, many, many Palestinians need actual medical support to eat.

“There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine.“

“It is not a loss but rather a deliberate targeting of any & all places where the people of Gaza can escape to.” On June 30, an Israeli airstrike dropped a 500-pound, U.S.-made bomb on the seaside Al-Baqa Cafe north of Gaza City, Asma Barakat reports. prismreports.org/2025/07/23/a...

We looked at each case and learned: the Trump administration knew at least 197 had not been convicted of U.S. crimes and only a handful had violent offenses. We identified a few additional convictions, both in the U.S. and abroad, not reflected in government data we obtained. 3/

You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst." But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵

If anyone in your life is looking for an educational resource to better understand Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, I have archived ~700 articles – written largely by Palestinians – under #Palestine in the last three months. The feed is updated every day. 1/2 🧵

“It’s like a video game. You’re hundreds of meters away, you play with the joystick, see the target, and drop [a grenade].” In interviews with @972mag, Israeli soldiers admit to targeting civilians — including children — with drone strikes in Gaza. www.972mag.com/drones-grena...

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media. I decided to build my own school instead. 500+ students. And more than 3,100 in the waitlist. Class starts tomorrow. We MOVE✊🏾 karenattiah.substack.com/p/sunday-not...

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

When Wasioto Park opened as Cumberland Park in 2012, it earned national recognition for design and served as a vibrant spot for kids to play. Today, Wasioto’s sprayground has been non-functional since 2020 and other play areas and signage show evidence of neglect. ✏️: @shaunashauna.bsky.social

NEW: After a ProPublica and @cbsnews.com investigation revealed that Texas’ funding pipeline for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers is riddled with waste, nonprofits in the program must now provide a detailed accounting of their expenses.

"Stone was handcuffed and held by federal agents for eight hours on Tuesday, according to her family." www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

Last month, the entire four-person staff of the decades-old LGBTQ Health Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was cut with little to no notice amid the layoffs of 650 staffers. The Banner spoke with former employees and patients on the impact of losing this longstanding program.

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

So this is one of my beefs w the failed approach to journalism which the NYT, WaPo, Charles Whitaker & the Medill school et al use: journalism is not about “scoops.” It is not a competition. As Palestinian journalists have shown (at great sacrifice) journalism is a collective endeavor to find truth

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity

"As I was filming, people came to me and said: look at your forehead. There were three green laser dots on my head: private armed U.S. contractors who were guarding the site were pointing their weapons at my head. One spoke through a loudspeaker, in English: 'No filming allowed.'"

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

That story only makes sense in the context of Mamdani trying to "cheat" the system by "pretending" he's Black and that only makes sense of you believe that Black people get stuff just for being Black, to which i say, I wish.

A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor. This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged. nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

“‘I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,’ she said.”

The video, obtained by @nashvillebanner.bsky.social, undermines THP's claim that it was focused on traffic safety. The nature of the stop was described as "unusual" by both MNPD and THP leadership. It prompted an internal review at THP after MNPD expressed concern.