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Troubled Teens and Traumatized Teachers in ‘Steve’
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Steve brings viewers a story about a community of outsiders struggling against the indifference of society and its cold and calculating systems.
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Learn More About Street Outreach Options
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For years, I’ve been advocating for an interdisciplinary street outreach approach in Nashville.
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Q&A with Dahron Anneliese Johnson
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Chaplain Dahron Annelies Johnson is a trans rights advocate who has become a mainstay of activism in the halls where the Tennessee General Assembly meets.
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Former Tent City Resident Recalls His Early Days at the Encampment
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Wendell Segroves, a skilled craftsman and a former member of the Metro Homelessness Commission and Homelessness Planning Council, moved to Old Tent City in 2004. Wendell and his dogs. Photo by Steve Samra
“There were only five people there and I had to be invited in,” he said. “It was Nashville’s best kept secret.”
In those days, the camps were spread out. “We kept to ourselves,” explained Wendell.
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The Land That Held Us: Remembering Nashville’s Original Tent City
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… this land had served as a sanctuary for unhoused residents for over 40 years. It was never just a camp.
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Remembering Old Tent City and Darla the Dog
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Darla the dog came to visit us in the fall of 2008. It was when we lived in that little duplex right by the train tracks with car-glass and graffiti in the backyard.
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The ghost of murdered Clarence Pullis may have haunted his alleged killer Lem Motlow, but it didn’t stop Motlow from building a career in Tennessee spirits and politics
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One of the most powerful men in Tennessee was indicted for murder a more than a hundred years ago.
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Q&A with Rico X
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Rico X has worked with young people throughout his career and recently was named the chief mission delivery officer of the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee.
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‘Bring Her Back’ finds the filmmaking Philippous aren’t flukes
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Identical twins Danny and Michael Philippou started their filmmaking careers creating wrestling videos in their Adelaide, Australia, backyard when they were 11 years old.
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Learn More About Potential Federal Homelessness Funding Cuts
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Looming federal funding cuts to permanent housing programs could end housing assistance for tens of thousands of people nationwide, including some Nashvillians.