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154 years ago today, the Fisk Jubilee Singers set out on their first ever concert tour to raise funds to save their school.

If you haven’t experienced a Jubilee Singers’ performance, you are depriving yourself the opportunity to be deeply moved.

fiskjubileesingers.org

If Starbucks’ baristas molested children with the regularity of Christian pastors and priests, you wouldn’t have been able to get your hands on a pumpkin spice latte in decades.

🍂 Happy Fall! 🍁

🧡 For a pibble like Rhythm, visit www.NashvillePittie.org!
🧡 For a hound like Lurlene, visit www.MisfitHounds.org!

#adoptdontshop #pitbullrescue #houndrescue #hound #pitbulls

Its been an amazing week of generosity for The Mary Parrish Center, but Housing Hope 2025 ends at midnight. There’s still time to shop the Giving Catalog www.housinghopenashville.org/catalog

Your donations are vital for survivors & their families to live free of violence.

“Why does she stay?”
“Why doesn’t she just leave?”
“Why does she keep going back?”

The number one reason: HOUSING.

Did you know the leading cause of homelessness for women & children in the US is domestic violence?

Help provide housing for survivors.

www.HousingHopeNashville.org

🍀GREAT NEWS!🍀 Housing Hope has been extended through Sunday, September 14. We’re so excited for the overwhelming response to Housing Hope 2025! So, let’s keep the momentum going!

All gifts support survivors of domestic violence and are 100% tax deductible: housinghopenashville.org/catalog

❗️ A radiation catastrophe could occur in Kharkiv: Russia is shelling a laboratory of the institute storing several dozen pounds of enriched uranium - NYT

▪️The Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology has been already hit by Russia 74 times;

“The impact of your donation allows a child to go back to school without fear; allows a survivor to sleep through the night for the first time, sometimes in years.”

Shop from 16 different gifts to benefit survivors of domestic violence now:
housinghopenashville.org/catalog

#BreakTheCycle

You can help The Mary Parrish Center create more success stories like Michelle's. Support our mission by visiting HousingHopeNashville.org & shop the Giving Catalog.

Gift start at just $25 & are 100% tax deductible!🍀

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Now, Michelle is a community leader, serves on the Center's Board & hosts "Real Talk," a platform where residents share their experiences & solutions. Her journey from survivor to advocate is a testament to the power of healing & hope.

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Through clinical therapy, Michelle gained a deep understanding of her past. "Most important, I learned how to avoid repeating the cycle again," she says.

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For years, my brilliant friend Michelle endured violence & abuse. Her breaking point came the night her husband entered their room with a knife — she knew she had to escape. The Mary Parrish Center provided her with a safe, cost-free apartment, giving her the security she needed to start over.

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Survivors face many obstacles when fleeing violence. Starting over means finding safe housing, but it can also mean finding a job, transportation, and childcare. Help a survivor start their new life today with a gift from Housing Hope's Giving Catalog. Shop now at housinghopenashville.org/catalog

Its Day 1 of Housing Hope Week, the annual online fundraising event benefitting The Mary Parrish Center! Shop our unique Giving Catalog to choose from 16 different gifts that help survivors of domestic violence.

🍀Gifts start at $25 & are 100% tax-deductible🍀www.housinghopenashville.org/catalog

Today is National Food Bank Day! Please join me in supporting Tennessee’s largest direct service provider — Nourish Food Bank — by sharing your funds, food and time! Signing up to help or give is easy! Visit www.NourishFoodBanks.org today!

#NourishFoodBank #NationalFoodBankDay

as someone who has definitely had moonshine from a random hillbilly at a tailgate, so am i

The Entwined History of Enslaved Black Nashvillians and Native Americans A deep dive into the Work Projects Administration's interviews with formerly enslaved people reveals something about our history

From @betsyphillips.bsky.social: A deep dive into the Work Projects Administration's interviews with formerly enslaved people reveals something about our history.

Happy Independence Day

Gilbert's urn sits between Melissa and Mark Hortman's caskets as the first dog to lie in state  Despite his best efforts, Gilbert didn’t graduate from the service dog program. He was just too friendly.

Despite his best efforts, Gilbert didn’t graduate from the service dog program. He was just too friendly.

Senegal women’s national hoops team forced to cancel a 10-day training trip to US after feds denied its members’ visas.

Senegal is not on the travel ban list.

firstandpen.com/senegal-wome...

As a result of the violence & murder of its leaders, the Brownsville NAACP dissolved in 1940. A new chapter was not formed until 1961.

Later, 2 Black men were beaten to death after being arrested by the same night marshal.

Despite DOJ & FBI inquiries, charges were never filed.

A contemporary observer said, the murderers “can be seen in Brownsville each day going about their work as though they’d killed only a rabbit.”

In the months after the lynching, as many as 40 Black families were permanently driven from the community under threats of violence from white supremacists. Black Americans who remained were prohibited from meeting in groups — even for church services.

A few days before Mr. Williams’ lynching, fellow NAACP leader Elisha Davis was kidnapped by the same group of white men.

Mr. Davis survived but was ordered to leave town or be murdered. When Mr. Williams refused to leave or cease his voting rights work, he was killed.

Violence had prevented Black Americans from voting in Brownsville since 1884 even though they comprised 75% of the 19,000 citizens. Rightfully so, they wanted their voices to be heard.

In May 1940, the NAACP Brownsville chapter organized a voting rights drive. Mr. Williams was one of its leaders.

#OTD 1940, a TN man was lynched. His name was Elbert Williams.

NAACP leader Williams was kidnapped from his home in Brownsville by a group of white men led by the local sheriff & the night marshal.

Three days later, Mr. Williams’ brutalized body was found in the nearby Hatchie River.

Its Juneteenth! Lift every voice and sing!

Learn: nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/hi...

I don’t know where Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is from, but she sounds like home.

#NoKings

Said goodbye to the sweetest, most joyful spirit this morning. We had a good run, Dolly. I love you, sweet girl.