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We Are North Nashville

We Are North Nashville

They've seen an interstate cut their once-thriving neighborhood in half. They've seen their community cut off from the commercial and cultural engines of the city. They've seen racialized terror visited on their own backyards. But through it all, they've fought to hold onto the place they love.We Are North Nashville: The Podcast is about the lives of elders who call North Nashville home, in their own words. It's about the ways the elders have kept joy alive in their neighborhood in spite of all the challenges it has faced. It's about the history that newcomers to the city don't always know, or even think to ask about. It's about walking the streets and still seeing the way people held this place together, even when city planners set about ripping it apart.This is a show about North Nashville. It's also a story about the United States, where Black communities have been cut apart, razed and deprived for generations in the name of progress that does not include them. More importantly, We Are North Nashville is what happens when the people who live history get to tell it.

Hosted by M. Simone Boyd and Andrea Tudhope

Produced, edited and mixed by Andrea Tudhope

Original music by S-Wrap

Additional production by Steve Haruch

We Are North Nashville

They've seen an interstate cut their once-thriving neighborhood in half. They've seen their community cut off from the commercial and cultural engines of the city. They've seen racialized terror visited on their own backyards. But through it all, they've fought to hold onto the place they love.We Are North Nashville: The Podcast is about the lives of elders who call North Nashville home, in their own words. It's about the ways the elders have kept joy alive in their neighborhood in spite of all the challenges it has faced. It's about the history that newcomers to the city don't always know, or even think to ask about. It's about walking the streets and still seeing the way people held this place together, even when city planners set about ripping it apart.This is a show about North Nashville. It's also a story about the United States, where Black communities have been cut apart, razed and deprived for generations in the name of progress that does not include them. More importantly, We Are North Nashville is what happens when the people who live history get to tell it.

Hosted by M. Simone Boyd and Andrea Tudhope

Produced, edited and mixed by Andrea Tudhope

Original music by S-Wrap

Additional production by Steve Haruch

We Are North Nashville
2hr 48min
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Nine elders. One community. And the wisdom that held them together.
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Meet the Council of Elders who remember North Nashville before everything changed
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In the 1960s, Interstate 40 ripped through the heart of North Nashville, taking Thomas Wilson's childhood home with it.
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As a 6-year-old, Barbara Jean Watson helped desegregate Nashville schools, one of many struggles in a tumultuous era for the neighborhood and the country
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The interstate did more than raze businesses and homes; it ripped the fabric of the community, and a father and son got caught up in the wake of systemic harm
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The North Nashville that existed before the interstate still lives in these elders; it’s time for newcomers to listen
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