Features
Q&A with Kennetha Patterson
|
Kennetha Patterson is a local advocate and activist and a leader in the homelessness sector. Patterson has lived expertise and identifies herself on LinkedIn as THE Homeless CEO.
Features
Learn More About the Importance to Pay People with Lived Expertise
|
“Engaging people with lived experience in any project or policy work must be based on time, trust, equal partnership roles … and fair compensation, of course.”
Features
A Growing Legacy
|
How the first Black Girl Scout leader in Nashville’s work continues through Camp Holloway
Features
Q&A with Erika Burnett
|
Erika Burnett has a tremendous track record in community leadership in the private and public sector. Most recently she served as the VP of Community Development at the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the Executive Director of The Village.
Features
‘Pike River’ dramatizes a real-world mining disaster and a fight for justice
|
Pike River feels like a procedural, a contemporary labor fable, and a fight for justice all at once.
Features
Learn More About The Village
|
The Village was the brainchild of Ron Johnson and Dawn Stone. Johnson and Stone recognized the gap in capacity building that plagued minority-led nonprofits and made it hard for them to compete in the nonprofit field for grants and funding.
Features
Nothing About Us Without Paying Us
|
Lived experience cohort says they’ll no longer meet without compensation from Metro
Features
Homelessness is lethal. Cold weather just makes it more visible.
|
During the ice storm in late January, a street newspaper vendor died while living outside. This is not an unpredictable tragedy unfortunately.
Features
The Rip puts Damon and Affleck in the crosshairs on Netflix
|
The new Netflix cop picture The Rip starts with a bang when the captain of a narcotics division is gunned down after communicating with an undercover agent.
Features
Q&A with Bob Mendes
|
Bob Mendes served Nashville as an at-large member of Metro Council from 2015-2023, followed by a two-year stint as the Chief Development Officer in the Mayor’s Office.