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It’s all about parent choice until parents can’t choose to opt out of gun indoctrination for their 3 year olds.

BANNER & COMPANY Ep. 1 is live!

demetria kalodimos talks with former Nashville Banner staffers about scoops, scandal, smoking in the old newsroom at 1100 Broadway and a whole lot more.

And with A+ production by Andrea Tudhope (she/her)

It’s a great listen.

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“Her beautiful storytelling of her mom’s daunting journey makes it impossible for us to forget while shedding light on a history that so many people have forgotten or never knew about except the people who survived that part of history.”

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You can understand a lot about Broadway just by observing that it’s gone from being the kind of place where Hank Williams stumbles drunk through Ryman Alley to one where Morgan Wallen throws a chair off of a roof.

Eight years since we lost Jim

It is my extreme pleasure to share with you the cover of my next book HIGH AND RISING, publishing via Dey Street Books in November.

The preorder is live and available here: harpercollins.com/products/high-…

today marks 18 years since israeli soldiers murdered my cousin. i’m resharing a comic i made for Middle East Eye about him & about how the genocide & systemic, indiscriminate murder of Palestinians is woven into the very fabric of israel’s existence. this didn’t start in October.

The first episode of our new podcast — Banner & Company, hosted by demetria kalodimos — is out and it's a fantastic look at the old Banner, told by the people who were there.

Get it in all of your favorite podcast places or listen here ⬇️

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Nashville Banner Big ups to Andrea Tudhope (she/her) and Steve Haruch is on the blue app these days for making podcast magic AGAIN!

Also, I’m really glad the story of Robert Churchwell is being told again. Bc *some* of my neighbors are still salty about the renaming of Wharton School, but now I can point them to why 😍🙏🏾😍.

negrophobic…and my mother only read the Banner when she wanted to see something. But even then, she had to call all around the neighborhood to find someone that had a copy.”

Then today, the Nashville Banner drops a podcast telling the *entire* messy truth about its history!

Yesterday, we were interviewing one of the elders for a North Nashville storytelling project and midway during the interview he said “My mother didn’t take the Banner.” And I asked why.

He said “ Black people didn’t take it because it was

BANNER & COMPANY Ep. 1 is live!

demetria kalodimos talks with former Nashville Banner staffers about scoops, scandal, smoking in the old newsroom at 1100 Broadway and a whole lot more.

And with A+ production by Andrea Tudhope (she/her)

It’s a great listen.

nashvillebanner.com/2024/04/07/a-l…

Vanderbilt expels 3 student protestors and suspends 1 after pro-Palestine sit-ins in Kirkland Hall. They have 10 days to appeal the decision. Story by Brina Ratangee vanderbilthustler.com/2024/04/06/thr…

It’s Betsy Phillips in Nashville Banner, ABOUT the Banner. Clear your schedule - you have some reading to do. nashvillebanner.com/2024/04/05/nas…

Will they stay in the hot chicken game? Or will they … fowl out

.Betsy Phillips writing in the history of the Nashville Banner — racist warts, accolades, gun duels (!) and all — is well worth your time.

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SHIREEN LIVES: Today would have been the 53rd birthday of Shireen Abu Akleh, whose prolific, fearless journalism was a staple in all Palestinian and Arab households.

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Hey look, it’s the trailer for Banner & Company — a new podcast hosted by Demetria Kalodimos demetria kalodimos

Coming April 7 from Nashville Banner

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