Tennessee Archives

How did soulful rhythm and blues get so 'Heartless?' Marcus Dowling shows the evolution from spiritually-saturated and politically-oriented soul music to The Weeknd's Super Bowl success.

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This is damn sure not our grandparents' rhythm and blues

Court fees and fines make voting near-impossible for ex-felons in Tennessee

Field Notes from the ground in Tennessee—Before, during, and after the election

How photo ID laws and provisional ballots target the most marginalized Southerners

New Tennessee law surfaces the South's racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement

What do we mean when we talk about voter suppression?

The 'Slave Trail of Tears': recreation or reckoning?

Community takes down neo-Nazis and slumlords in rural Tennessee

In the wake of Tennessee's tornadoes, some ways to send and receive aid—and things to avoid

Blount County remembers Cormac McCarthy and looks towards its literary future

Reproductive justice wins in Tennessee aren't just about abortion

Tennessee's latest attack on gay marriage takes aim at online ordinations

Tennessee GOP used shady tactics to railroad a voter suppression bill into law

Whether Fences or Not

A movement for police accountability is on Nashville's November ballot

Fighting to save a gentrifying East Nashville

Nashville's Struggle to Rein in Airbnb

Power Lines: Broadband and Democracy in East Tennessee

The massacre men

Soul and ice: finding P.K. Subban's Nashville

Bucking a southern trend, Memphis rap stays in its lane

Bernie Sanders energized a new generation of leftist Southern politicians

The strange story of Sewanee, the KKK, and a Franklin County Gay/Straight Alliance

Is Tennessee for sale?

The strange true story of how a Memphis video rental store became the nation's most obstinate monument to cinema

Raised on justiceand sweet tea.

Join the Southerners fighting for a better South.

What the hell is a Scalawag?

It takes more than good intentions to transform the South. It takes money.

Raised on justice
and sweet tea.