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COLUMBIA, Tenn. — Greg Kroeker couldn't stop staring at the man with the unusual prosthetic leg in front of him at Lowe's. The leg has a "C"-shaped piece of hard-yet-bouncy plastic between the knee and the plastic foot in a sneaker. "Hey, my sons are amputees," Kroeker said when he caught the man's eye. "Would you mind sharing with me about your leg?" No problem. Turns out that man, Allen Luke, is a volunteer for Nashville nonprofit Amputee Blade Runners, which outfits amputees with blade prosthetics used for more athletic movements. And Luke was happy to share with Kroeker, who, with hi...

Downtown  Arrokoth opened at Tinney Contemporary on April 16, and continues at the 5th Avenue of the Arts space through May 29. Harding forms his sculptures from the wood of fallen trees, turning them into extraterrestrial-seeming artifacts on metal stands that look a lot like the landing gear on sci-fi Golden Age-era flying saucers. The show’s title references the most remote celestial object ever visited by a space probe. The exhibition’s natural materials and Harding’s smooth-rounded forms emanate a still calm, but the titular implications of trans-Neptunian isolation ch...

Clarksville Now CLARKSVILLE, TN — April showers bring May flowers, and beginning May 1, the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center will be back in “full bloom” as it resumes its Saturday schedule. The museum will resume pre-COVID hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m. and will no longer close for one hour at mid-day during the week. Per the latest update from the City of Clarksville, cleaning and safety precautions will remain a priority; masks are strongly encouraged but no longer required for visitors at the museum. Also, beginning May 1, the museum will resume pu...

Erika Alexander and Nina Turner, Opinion contributors Published 1:25 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021 On Wednesday the House Judiciary approved H.R. 40 — a reparations bill written more than 30 years ago. It's a long-overdue but history-making step. The bill, which will form a commission to study the possibility of federal reparations, heads to the House floor as states, universities and private organizations across the country push for reparative action.  Below is one of three columns USA TODAY Opinion is publishing as part of an exploration of the national fight for reparations addressing ...

Color Farm Media, and iHeartMedia’s The Black Effect Podcast Network. Together, they bring individual perspectives to the conversation and are joined by special guests and experts ranging from Rev. William Barber, Robin Rue Simmons, and more. While they analyze reparations, the creative podcast investigates the underlying racist architecture of modern businesses, laws, policies, and institutions that have their roots in slavery. (Image credit Ben Arnon) Both hosts have passionate reasoning for wanting to invest the time and talent in producing the unique broadcast. “I think this subj...