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Everyday citizens document ICE, warn neighbors in effort to resist mass deportations in their own communities
Alejandro Ramirez
Managing editor
Nashvillian of the Year
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The veteran activist shows you’re never too old to fight for a just cause
Alejandro Ramirez
Managing editor
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Sarah Shoop Neumann, Ibtihal Cheko and Maryam Abolfazli are at the center of a Nashville community calling for change
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With her family’s signature dish now a global sensation, the longtime matriarch behind Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack is a cultural ambassador for Music City
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After a long and remarkable career, the Meharry Medical College president is at the forefront of Nashville’s battle against the pandemic
Steven Hale
Staff Writer
The numbers keep coming — relentless, like a driving rain. New cases. New hospitalizations. New deaths.
Stephen Elliott
Staff Reporter
D. Patrick Rodgers
Editor-in-Chief
Steven Hale
Staff Writer
Every year, the Nashville Scene editorial staff selects an individual or group as our Nashvillian or Nashvillians of the Year. This year, we’ve selected the staff of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, a group started in 2003 to empower and protect immigrants and refugees t…
Stephen Elliott
Staff Reporter
Taurean C. Sanderlin. Joe R. Perez. DeEbony Groves. Akilah DaSilva.
The water was still rising in Houston earlier this year when the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee announced it had set up a Hurricane Harvey Recovery Fund. The massive hurricane crashed ashore on Aug. 25, dumping more than 40 inches of rain on southeast Texas and killing at least 82 …
Steven Hale
Staff Writer
On the November night that ended with the stunning and, in many quarters, unsettling election of Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States, these are among the movies playing at the Belcourt Theatre in Hillsboro Village: Moonlight, the story of a young black man coming of ag…
On the morning of June 26, 2015, Abby Rubenfeld ducked into a jury chamber at the back of a Fourth Circuit courtroom to watch SCOTUSblog, a site that tracks Supreme Court cases and live blogs when the Court announces decisions. Her youngest daughter, a student at MTSU, had come to court to a…
On Oct. 16, Paul McCartney made a plea to a capacity crowd of 14,498 at Bridgestone Arena. "You gotta save these old studios, man," Sir Paul said. "The history!"
As 2013 winds to a close, Nashville finds itself in the throes of a construction boom. And of all the new buildings that were once just a dream in somebody's head, one looms especially large. It holds the potential to transform not only the tract of land it occupies, but the very fabric of t…
Every year since 1989, the Scene has awarded the honor of Nashvillian of the Year to the person (or persons) who makes the most significant contribution to the life of the city. It could be a philanthropist or a charity worker; it could be someone who faced a momentous occasion, incident or …
Steven Hale
Staff Writer
Every year since 1989, the Nashville Scene has awarded the title of Nashvillian of the Year to the person (or persons) who we feel made the most significant impact on the city during the previous 12 months. Sometimes the recipient is a longtime social activist or agent for civic good (Father…
Steven Hale
Staff Writer
Every year for the past 21 years, the Nashville Scene has honored an individual (or individuals) whose efforts have made the city a better place. It could be a noted politician or civic leader; it could be a less well-known but equally deserving figure from the charity or nonprofit sector, o…
When a lot of kids turn 18, they get something special—a party, a night out, sometimes even the keys to a car. On Xavier's 18th birthday, he returned to the apartment he shared with his mother to find an unusual present. What little he owned sat ready to go, where his mom had packed it up. S…
On Jan. 22, Nashvillians will go to the polls to settle—we hope—one of the most divisive issues to face the city in its recent history. That issue is the notorious "English Only" charter amendment, which would make English the city's official language for municipal services. Intended, say it…
In what we hope will become an annual event, the Scene invited readers to nominate the Nashvillian who has most affected the city for the good of all over the past year. The first Readers' Choice Nashvillian of the Year—a selection who sets a high benchmark for this inaugural honor—is Hal Ca…
In an abandoned house on Eastland Avenue, Clemmie Greenlee withered to a frail, gaunt 85 pounds. Smoking crack cocaine incessantly, she sometimes went days without eating, sleeping or bathing. Consumed by addiction, Greenlee was living for the next high, as she had for years. When her supply…
Fifth-grader Aaron Ward spent last school year at Kirkpatrick Elementary School, where the principal and teachers are constantly challenged by the sheer numbers of needy kids, many of whom have behavioral problems, lead woefully imperfect home lives or arrive at the school testing below thei…
From the parking lot behind the building at 532 Eighth Ave. S., and looking northeast, there's a panoramic view of the proud evidence of a thriving city—sparkling office and residential buildings, the Gaylord Entertainment Center, the Country Music Hall of Fame. The pristinely restored Shelb…
Colleen Conway-Welch, at the age of 22, didn’t appear afraid of anything. When she contemplated what to do with her life, she thought adventurously. When she considered where to go, she held the world in the palm of her hand.
As the director of Metro schools, Pedro Garcia probably would prefer that the 70,000 some-odd students in his system show a healthy respect for authority, shun violence and obey their parents. In other words, be everything that he wasn’t.
Exactly 100 years ago, two things were happening in Nashville that would eventually change the landscape of the city. One was northern industrialist Andrew Carnegie’s $100,000 donation for a new Nashville library, a gift that led to the creation of the city’s library system. The other was th…
People frequently see the holiday season as an opportunity to do some good in the world, to donate their time or money to a worthy cause. It’s a way to make us feel better about ourselves, to keep from taking our lives for granted. Yet few of us extend that practice to the rest of the year. …
When Mark Wynn was 7 years old, he plotted a murder. The target was his stepfather. With his 12-year-old brother helping him, Wynn emptied a can of Black Flag bug spray into the bottle of Mad Dog 20-20 that his alcoholic stepfather kept by his bed. The two Wynn brothers hoped that the drunke…
Amid the greed and glitz that surround commerce and tourism in this city, the resurrection of the Dollar General Store in the Sam Levy Homes housing project stands as a testament to Nashville’s unselfish heart. A unique four-year partnership between private industry, neighborhood groups, Met…
