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Melissa Thomas is the Executive Director and CEO of The Branch of Nashville, which is a community resource center on the property of the Antioch United Methodist Church on Tusculum Road.
The math is simple: Metro has invested millions of dollars into homelessness since 2022 at unprecedented levels for Nashville. Yet overall homelessness during that time has increased by 14 percent.
Esarrah Hopkins serves as the operations and health equity manager of Black Mental Health Village.
“When you are in survival mode 24/7 for months or years, the likelihood of developing mental health issues is extremely high — if not to say likely.”
Sheri Sellmeyer profiles a multicultural city, one immigrant at a time
Director Baltasar Kormákur returns to survival-thriller territory with Apex, a cliff-climbing, white-water, cat-and-mouse game in the wild.
As is our annual tradition, The Contributor brings you our annual list of books that can take you somewhere the algorithm might not allow.
“The biggest affordability issue in this country is a lack of a living minimum wage combined with a lack of access to affordable housing.”
In addition to RZA’s rap career, he’s done scores for movies by Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino, and he’s made four feature films including his new contemporary crime-fu drama, One Spoon of Chocolate.
Stephen Watts, 29, is a young Millennial with a Gen Z sensibility. Watts has an intersectional view of how his generation works in social justice and advocacy.