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Know Your Rights

By Amanda Haggard | February 12, 2025

The Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) has intensified its efforts to inform and protect immigrant communities and empower their allies.

Feral: Little Pal

Part 1 of 3 of the true story of a wild (feral) cat colony over a 3-year time period. My observations and involvement.

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Federal edicts and missiles over these past couple of weeks have created chaos among nonprofit organizations, state and local agencies and others who are focused on serving people who struggle to make ends meet. Among some of the confusion created by the White House was the threat of halting a large portion of federal grant funding that Congress has allocated for agencies serving some of the most vulnerable populations in our nation. It remains unclear what direction the federal government intends to take next.

‘Look Into My Eyes’ documents contemporary loneliness and the supernatural

Movie poster of Look Into My Eyes. It features an illustration looking into the window of an apartment building. In the window is a woman sitting at a table illuminated by a candle.

Most Nashvillians will know filmmaker Lana Wilson for her Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana (2020). Wilson also directed the Brooke Shields documentary Pretty Baby (2023) as well as an examination of extremism and abortion in America (After Tiller, 2015), and a meditation on suicide in Japanese culture (The Departure, 2017). Wilson’s new movie, Look Into My Eyes reads like a blend of the filmmaker’s curiosities with interesting personalities and particular cultural trends.

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Special Customers Who Have Stuck With Me Through Thick And Thin

By Norma B. | December 11, 2024

At this time of year, I often reflect on some of my “special customers” who have done what I consider to be some EXTRAORDINARY things for me.

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Q&A with Lonnell Matthews

By Judith Tackett | December 11, 2024

Lonnell Matthews was first elected as Nashville’s Juvenile Court Clerk in 2018. In this role, he serves as the keeper of records for the Juvenile Court of Davidson County.