The Debt: What Tennessee Owes Its HBCU
In this one-hour special from WPLN and the Tennessee Lookout: What happens when government funding is withheld from a public university that's served generations of Black Tennesseans? And what could b...
9 Dec 202552min
Listen: The Country In Our Hearts
Episode 1 of WPLN’s new series “The Country In Our Hearts” is out now! We travel from a market in South Nashville to the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan to discover what happened on one terrible, pivotal...
5 Juni 20251min
WPLN News & NPR's Embedded present: "Supermajority"
Supermajority is a new podcast from NPR’s Embedded, in partnership with WPLN News, exploring what happens when one political party has near-complete control. In this four-episode series, hosted by Mer...
17 Juni 20243min
Preview: "Making Noise" from WPLN and WNXP
"Making Noise" is a four-part series by WPLN and WNXP about how the music promotion company Lovenoise has changed the music landscape of Nashville. The best way to listen is to subscribe to the WNXP P...
5 Feb 20242min
Bonus: How one police chief struggled to change the system
Karl Durr arrived in Rutherford County from Eugene, Oregon, in spring of 2016. He had been hired as the new police chief of Murfreesboro, the county’s largest city. As an outsider, there was a chance...
26 Nov 20236min
Dedicated Public Servants | The Kids of Rutherford County
The lawyers settle with the County, which agrees to pay the kids who were wrongfully arrested and illegally jailed; the hard part is getting the kids paid. Credits: “The Kids of Rutherford County” is...
23 Nov 202338min
Bonus: Rutherford County is not alone. This youth detention center superintendent in Knoxville illegally locks kids alone in cells.
The Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center has been punishing kids with seclusion more than any other facility in Tennessee. And as the laws and rules on how to treat kids changed, the facility faile...
19 Nov 20239min
Bonus: Behind the music of The Kids of Rutherford County
“Minimalist classic country with maximalist tendencies.” That’s one way to describe the musical scoring of The Kids of Rutherford County.In this bonus conversation, Nashville Public Radio’s Meribah Kn...
17 Nov 202317min
