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The fest goes virtual with a spine-tingling schedule of online readings and author talks

The house on Fisk property was once owned by a prominent Black family — and it narrowly escaped destruction

View Comments On Nov. 10, 1960, employees at a restaurant on Fifth Avenue used water hoses, wet brooms and a fumigation machine to try and drive John Lewis away from the lunch counter. He stayed put, clasping a white handkerchief over his mouth as acrid clouds of bug spray filled the room. When police and angry critics closed in during another sit-in at the Walgreens on Fifth Avenue, Lewis sat and wrote a sermon. Lewis became the face of a yearlong movement to desegregate the lunch counters in downtown Nashville, which refused to serve Black customers. He returned again and again with thro...

I’ll Take You There Is an Unflinching Exploration of Nashville’s Social Justice Sites Editors Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams’ guide to the city draws on the knowledge of more than 100 Nashvillians Tweet Share “You have in your hands a different sort of guidebook,” promises the first line of . “In place of offering a single voice and perspective on the city,” editors Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams write, “we offer a multitude, and intentionally privilege the perspectives of those most directly impacted by injustice in the...

The “aging infrastructure” of the 109-year-old institution and years of “deferred maintenance” have made for this and other decidedly not 21st-century conditions on campus.​ The university can't afford to pay for upkeep, much less advance its technological capabilities. It has been historically underfunded by the state of Tennessee and shortchanged hundreds of millions of dollars it was owed for at least 50 years. “I can’t overstress the dramatic effect [the underfunding has] had on TSU,” said Glenda Baskin Glover, president of Tennessee State. “It has severely hampered our ...