Fisk University announced a new digital portal to some 146,000 items in the Julius Rosenwald Fund archives. Starting in the early 20th century, more than 5,000 Rosenwald Schools were constructed to provide educational opportunities for Black students across the Southeast. @steveharuch.bsky.social

I wrote about Fisk University's new digital portal to the Rosenwald Fund archive — an online repository of more than 146,000 (and counting) artifacts related to the Rosenwald Schools, which provided opportunities for Black students in the Jim Crow South.

Great summary of the Voices for Gaza event this past Sunday--you can donate at the QR code you see 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

We Are North Nashville, a multimedia storytelling project dedicated to preserving the lived experiences of elders in the community, is releasing two special bonus podcast episodes. podcastingtoday.co.uk/we-are-north...

New episode of WE ARE NORTH NASHVILLE dropped today! Featuring: Poet Major Jackson; Fisk University's director of library services; cream corn, spinach and pork chops; the Eighteenth Avenue Family Enrichment Center; Hadley Park; thick Southern accents; and an unexpected sign from the ancestors.

We're excited to announce our very own Director of Development, Paige Hendrickson, is joining a group of 15 nonprofit journalism leaders for @newmarkjplus.bsky.social next Nonprofit Business Certificate cohort! 👏

As Americana Fest kicks off, Black female musicians across Nashville are using music and activism to uplift their communities. ✏️: @ejturner02.bsky.social

"I don’t think I can describe the feeling of helplessness; watching the daily unaliving of children and civilians and not being able to help with a bottle of water.”

1. "Famous Blue Raincoat," Leonard Cohen

One year ago, the We Are North Nashville project launched with a celebration at the Frist, honoring the elders in style. If you haven't already, now would be a great time to listen or catch up on the podcast: www.wearenorthnashville.org/podcast/ More soon ...

Everyone should read this.

“You learn to live with this fear, because at any moment it can return.”

Loved hearing @learothawms.bsky.social and Serina K. Gilbert talk about their new book on Promise Land, TN, a Black enclave formed after the Civil War, whose memories are being kept alive by the descendants of its founders.

The rich history of Promise Land has much to offer all Tennesseans as we strive to understand the history of African Americans, race, and gender relations in the Volunteer State. #slavery #Reconstruction #JimCrow #History #PublicHistory #TeachHistory

Thrilled to discuss From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land with Demetria Kalodimos and her brilliant band of journalists at the Nashville Banner. We chatted about how her family negotiated life in Middle TN during enslavement in a Montgomery Bell owned furnace, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. 🧵

I think a thing that's really hard for kids to wrap their heads around is that the JA incarceration was perfectly legal then and now. The Supreme Court never overturned Korematsu's conviction, the US District Court did. His conviction still stands as Supreme Court precedent.

“We’re hiring, are you 18?” Border Patrol was recruiting at the Professional Bull Riders event in Nashville this weekend

PEOPLE LIKE US is brilliant, and I'll be talking with Jason Mott about it on Tuesday — come through! parnassusbooks.net/event/2025-0...

Just listened to the first ep and it had my heart pumping. I didn’t know the story of the college student who followed Eric Robert Rudolph up Red Mountain. Good listen:

Great story — definitely listen to the audio on this one!

In a painful execution, attorney says Byron Black was ‘tortured’ by the State of Tennessee nashvillebanner.com/2025/08/05/b...

Cathy Carillo helped found TheREMIX TN, a grassroots organization helping the Latino community. On this week's Banner & Company, she talks with @genuinehumandk.bsky.social about how seeing her father be deported when she was a teenager set her on a path to fight for immigration justice.

Breaking: The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Byron Black's defibrillator does not have to be turned off before his execution on Tuesday. Black's attorneys say that this will result in him feeling like he's being kicked in the chest repeatedly as he dies. nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/31/b...

Well would you look at the date

Glad that WXNA is doing this. Jim and I spent a lot of late nights together in the old Scene office. One time that included eating cold pizza and kimchi. I’ll be on the air Friday July 25 to talk about my friend and mentor. I miss him every day.

Rümeysa Öztürk www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

There's something really gross about the disregard for the incredible and highly available intellectual work of Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani. I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.

this from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is really smart. You should watch it.

This is happening this Thursday 6/26. Bernice is going to interview me about what it was like to start Hyphen mag, and I'm going to do my best to try and recall. The first issue came out 22 years ago this month.

For more than half a century, students of the Napier neighborhood have attended McGavock High School. That will change this fall, due to a decision last year by MNPS to rezone the area for Glencliff High School. Parents and children say the decision was made without input from the community.

Help us fully fund our education reporting!

Help us fully fund our education reporting!

“On Monday morning, Park hugged his loved ones goodbye. Then, just like he had as a child, Park boarded a plane all by himself — this time, bound for a country he barely remembers, leaving behind the one he fought for.”

While Nashville officials have consistently distanced themselves from the immigration operation, the video obtained by the Banner shows that Tennessee Highway Patrol and federal agents were able to insert themselves easily into a routine MNPD traffic stop.

“What’s fascinating is a lot of them will reach out to us and say, ‘Hey, we’re still going to give you money. Just take our logo off of everything, take our name off of everything. We won’t be attending your events, but here’s money.'”

The @nashvillebanner.bsky.social is bringing on a new full-time education reporter, and we're raising money through 6/25 to match a $30k grant. Help us fund this crucial beat!

NEW from the Banner ... Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife and protesters outside the Fred D. Thompson federal courthouse had called for justice before his Nashville hearing

A month after federal authorities, including ICE, conducted an operation in and around Nashville with the help of TN Highway Patrol, the identities of nearly 200 immigrants detained and sent to facilities out of state largely remain unknown as officials have refused to provide any information.

Today I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and I have many thoughts that I am trying not to be overwhelmed by. Among them is that there are accounts from survivors of the bombing that sound almost exactly like this.

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach..." A pregnant TN woman was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in March. While in custody, she lost her baby mid-pregnancy –– and received delayed medical care after the fact.

Federal public defender Kelley Henry calls the death row inmates she represents “her guys,” and promises to keep fighting for them no matter the odds. Among them is Oscar Smith, scheduled to be executed May 22. Listen to her conversation with @genuinehumandk.bsky.social on this week's Banner & Co.

Oscar Smith has been in isolation since last Thursday ahead of his May 22 scheduled execution. As mandated by TN’s new capital punishment protocol, the liminal period between life on death row and execution has been stretched. His attorney called it “its own form of torture.”

A discussion of the Metro Social Services report, w/Rep. Harold Love Jr., councilmember Courtney Johnston and Nashville Chamber of Commerce CEO Stephanie Coleman, was moderated by the Banner's @genuinehumandk.bsky.social. Listen to the conversation in a bonus episode of our podcast Banner & Co.

This week on the Banner & Company podcast: ICE raids in Nashville @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social, @stelliott.bsky.social and @iamstevenhale.bsky.social join @genuinehumandk.bsky.social to talk about what they saw and heard — and what we still don't know Produced by @andreatudhope.bsky.social

Sources tell the Banner that immigration enforcement operations in the Nashville area, led by ICE and aided by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, will end this weekend. Meanwhile, local organizations are still working to identify who was taken, where they are being detained and how to provide legal aid.

Utilizando recursos de la @aclu.org, Informed Immigrant y otros, el Banner ha elaborado una guía para personas que no son ciudadanos estadounidenses, pero tienen algún tipo de estatus legal para estar en este país.

“You take one person and it destroys the web.” Several Nashvillians told the Banner that the immigration enforcement actions over the last few days have fundamentally changed their plans for the future, and have made going about their daily lives a frightening experience.

Davidson's attorney calls this “a transparent attempt to discredit and silence a whistleblower who exposed serious misconduct within the Metro Nashville Police Department.”

@iamstevenhale.bsky.social and I are covering the ongoing ICE operation in Nashville. If you know something, please reach out to us. We can talk, even if you don’t want to go on the record. I’m at sgtaylor.01 on signal, or you can DM for my cellphone. Steven is iamstevenhale.88 on signal.