The Tennessean - Warning signs existed at least 17 years before Rutherford County faced civil punishments for illegally incarcerating children.
The rejected 17-year-old study showed the county between August 2003 and July 2004 incarcerated three minority groups for longer stays on average than white children:
Hispanic (22 children): 9.8 days
Black (242 children): 5.6 days
Asian (14 children): 5.2 days
White (592 children): 4.6 days
Multi-racial (six children): 3.5 days
Other unspecified race or ethnicity (13 children): 16.2 days
"The Tennessee Civil Rights Trail" a new podcast from the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development explores the state's civil rights history and related landmarks.
The podcast is the latest example of using new media to honor the civil rights movement and is divided into three parts focusing on stories from Memphis and Nashville, as well as the town of Clinton's high school integration.
A group gathered around a campfire at Kennedy Farm in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in June 2019.
In this story, Joseph McGill, the executive director of the Slave Dwelling Project, describes the ways in which he continued to build connections and do the essential work of telling the full American story even as the world changed around him.
Since May of 2010, the Slave Dwelling Project has been bringing much-needed attention to slave dwellings by performing the simple act of sleeping in them. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, what started as a solo act of me sleeping in these places alone had evolved into people anxiously awaiting their turn to join me in this endeavor.
By 2020, we had amassed more than 150 sleepovers at various sites in 25 states and the District of Columbia. These sleepovers would be preceded by campfire discussions about slavery and the legacy it left on this nation. These conversations would include Confederate monuments, white privilege, white supremacy, historical trauma, weddings on plantations, and other subject matters not usually discussed among people of different races.
