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March 9, 2021 Hearing overwhelming support to move the Nathan Bedford Forrest out of the State Capitol, the Tennessee Historical Commission voted Tuesday to relocate the embattled statue to the State Museum. Subscribe After a 25-1 decision, the bust of the Confederate lieutenant general will be moved with U.S. Admirals David Farragut and Albert Gleaves as part of a request by the State Capitol Commission for creation of a Hall of Heroes. Even so, the matter might not be done. Subscribe Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and House Speaker Cameron Sexton have requested an opinion from Attorney General Herb...

Tweet Pete Meenen and the Tennesseans We Lost to COVID-19 The state’s first resident claimed by a virus that went on to kill many more On March 21, the Brentwood Family YMCA shared the news that Pete Meenen, a greeter at the gym and community center for more than 20 years, had died. He was the first person in Tennessee to die from COVID-19.  “Perhaps few faces in a YMCA are as recognizable as the greeter who meets the morning faithful, the early risers who start their day with us when the Welcome Center is a little quieter than usual,” the Brentwood Y’s operations executive, ...

Nashville Civil Rights Leader and Freedom Rider Kwame Lillard Dies at 81 An organizer of Nashville sit-ins, Lillard led and inspired generations of activists for 60 years Tweet Photo courtesy of African American Cultural Alliance Nashville Kwame Lillard, a Freedom Rider who carried the scars, lessons and memories of the civil rights struggle through a life of activism, died Sunday night. He was 81. One of the few organizers of Nashville’s 1960s sit-ins still living, Lillard also served on the Metro Council from 1991 to 1995. After becoming a civil rights activist whe...