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PEOPLE LIKE US is brilliant, and I'll be talking with Jason Mott about it on Tuesday — come through!

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Just listened to the first ep and it had my heart pumping. I didn’t know the story of the college student who followed Eric Robert Rudolph up Red Mountain. Good listen:

Great story — definitely listen to the audio on this one!

Byron Black executed; attorney says he was 'tortured' - Nashville Banner Byron Black's execution by lethal injection raises questions about his suffering and the role of his defibrillator. His attorney calls it 'torture.'

In a painful execution, attorney says Byron Black was ‘tortured’ by the State of Tennessee

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Cathy Carillo: Co-Founder, The ReMIX TN - Nashville Banner The experience of her father's arrest and deportation led Cathy Carillo down a path of community organizing and activism.

Cathy Carillo helped found TheREMIX TN, a grassroots organization helping the Latino community. On this week's Banner & Company, she talks with @genuinehumandk.bsky.social about how seeing her father be deported when she was a teenager set her on a path to fight for immigration justice.

Breaking: The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that Byron Black's defibrillator does not have to be turned off before his execution on Tuesday.

Black's attorneys say that this will result in him feeling like he's being kicked in the chest repeatedly as he dies.
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Probably not!

Well would you look at the date

Amazing!

Also, @noelmu.bsky.social wrote a wonderful homage to Jim for the Voice that gets at what made him so special

I know some folks who follow me here don’t know Jim but he is a legend in this town. He turned down a lot of opportunities because he was committed to Nashville. But one time he said yes.

His @criterion.bsky.social essay on THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG is a piece of writing I turn to again and again

WXNA Plans Salute to Jim Ridley A variety of shows on the community radio station will celebrate the late, great Scene editor’s 60th birthday

Glad that WXNA is doing this. Jim and I spent a lot of late nights together in the old Scene office. One time that included eating cold pizza and kimchi.

I’ll be on the air Friday July 25 to talk about my friend and mentor. I miss him every day.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa Öztürk

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There's something really gross about the disregard for the incredible and highly available intellectual work of Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani.

I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.

this from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social is really smart. You should watch it.

This is happening this Thursday 6/26. Bernice is going to interview me about what it was like to start Hyphen mag, and I'm going to do my best to try and recall. The first issue came out 22 years ago this month.

Rezoning ends Napier's connection to McGavock High School - Nashville Banner Explore the impact of school rezoning on students in Nashville's Napier neighborhood, where families fear losing their connection to McGavock High School.

For more than half a century, students of the Napier neighborhood have attended McGavock High School. That will change this fall, due to a decision last year by MNPS to rezone the area for Glencliff High School. Parents and children say the decision was made without input from the community.

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Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S. Sae Joon Park left for South Korea on Monday. His removal order was the result of drug possession and bail jumping charges from over 15 years ago — offenses that, he said, stemmed from untreated PTSD.

“On Monday morning, Park hugged his loved ones goodbye. Then, just like he had as a child, Park boarded a plane all by himself — this time, bound for a country he barely remembers, leaving behind the one he fought for.”

Video shows THP involvement in MNPD traffic stop - Nashville Banner Video footage casts doubt on the claim of traffic safety focus during last month's state-federal joint immigration sweeps in Nashville,

While Nashville officials have consistently distanced themselves from the immigration operation, the video obtained by the Banner shows that Tennessee Highway Patrol and federal agents were able to insert themselves easily into a routine MNPD traffic stop.

“What’s fascinating is a lot of them will reach out to us and say, ‘Hey, we’re still going to give you money. Just take our logo off of everything, take our name off of everything. We won’t be attending your events, but here’s money.'”

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The @nashvillebanner.bsky.social is bringing on a new full-time education reporter, and we're raising money through 6/25 to match a $30k grant.

Help us fund this crucial beat!

Protests in Nashville for Kilmar Abrego Garcia - Nashville Banner Kilmar Abrego Garcia's federal trial in Nashville draws protesters who demand justice and fair treatment for immigrants.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife and protesters outside the Fred D. Thompson federal courthouse had called for justice before his Nashville hearing

ICE opts against transparency on Nashville detainees - Nashville Banner Advocates and Metro officials demand transparency from ICE and THP regarding the identities of nearly 200 immigrants taken in recent actions in Nashville.

A month after federal authorities, including ICE, conducted an operation in and around Nashville with the help of TN Highway Patrol, the identities of nearly 200 immigrants detained and sent to facilities out of state largely remain unknown as officials have refused to provide any information.

Today I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and I have many thoughts that I am trying not to be overwhelmed by. Among them is that there are accounts from survivors of the bombing that sound almost exactly like this.

Detained immigrant's pregnancy fails while in ICE custody - Nashville Banner ICE's treatment of undocumented immigrants raises concerns as a woman's experience highlights what she described as inadequate medical care while in detention.

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach..."

A pregnant TN woman was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in March. While in custody, she lost her baby mid-pregnancy –– and received delayed medical care after the fact.

Kelley Henry: Death Row Defense Attorney - Nashville Banner Nashville-based federal public defender Kelley Henry represents death row inmates in court. She's promised to do it for the rest of her life.

Federal public defender Kelley Henry calls the death row inmates she represents “her guys,” and promises to keep fighting for them no matter the odds. Among them is Oscar Smith, scheduled to be executed May 22.

Listen to her conversation with @genuinehumandk.bsky.social on this week's Banner & Co.

Oscar Smith's Isolation Ahead of Execution in Tennessee - Nashville Banner Oscar Smith, on death row for nearly 35 years, is facing isolation before his scheduled execution in Tennessee. He is part of a challenge to the new protocol.

Oscar Smith has been in isolation since last Thursday ahead of his May 22 scheduled execution. As mandated by TN’s new capital punishment protocol, the liminal period between life on death row and execution has been stretched. His attorney called it “its own form of torture.”

Bonus Episode: 'The High Cost of Low Wages in Nashville' - Nashville Banner Nashville's Metropolitan Social Services department releases report on high cost of low wages in Nashville. Panel discusses solutions.

A discussion of the Metro Social Services report, w/Rep. Harold Love Jr., councilmember Courtney Johnston and Nashville Chamber of Commerce CEO Stephanie Coleman, was moderated by the Banner's @genuinehumandk.bsky.social.

Listen to the conversation in a bonus episode of our podcast Banner & Co.