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• ↓ Abortion backers notch court win — and point to brawl with AG over documents
• ↓ Ode to Joy (Oladokun), whose new album is no light affair
• ↓ Across the country, youth prisons are closing. Tennessee is building more.
• ↓ Nashvillager Podcast: The Nashville Symphony’s new financial crisis
• ↓ ‘They’re putting kids’ lives at risk’: How abuse in a Tennessee businessman’s juvenile prisons remained under wraps
• ↓ This Is Nashville
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"Today is 9/25, and in Nashville, Tennessee, it’s “9-to-5 Day,” commemorating the life of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton, who died one month ago at age 80.Downtown, that’s meant an official proclamation from the mayor, bands covering her music everywhere you look, and drinks and other festivities honoring the late Tennessee icon. Many people have also written “kindness pledges” on sticky notes in the shape of butterflies – one of Parton’s signatures. They’re vowing to be kinder today than they were yesterday, and to love God and love people, among other things.As Marianna Bacallao (@ba.marianna) reports, Dolly Parton has been Tennessee’s great unifier. People across the political spectrum love Dolly. Nashville is a Democratic-led city in a red state, and Nashville and state lawmakers are often at odds. A few years ago, a state senator tried to rename Nashville’s airport after Donald Trump, and received a lot of local pushback. Now, the airport is in the process of being renamed for Dolly Parton with overwhelming bipartisan support. Follow for more and tap link in bio for the full story.Photos: Marianna BacallaoProducer: Daniel PotterEditor: Megan Jones"

"Notable quoatables this week come from a conflict between two of Tennessee’s gubernatorial candidates. Independent Lauren Pinkston found herself ensnared in the discourse, after she posted a video about Andrew Jackson, saying he had experienced damaging trauma and coped poorly. Democratic candidate Jerri Green’s camp accused her of excusing Jackson’s atrocities and called on her to drop out.Peter Frampton is the subject of “FRAMPTON,” a documentary that debuted at the Nashville Film Festival this week.A Georgetown project documenting deaths in youth correctional facilities examines one site in Tennessee. The James M. Taft Youth Development Center opened as the Tennessee Reformatory for Negro Boys in 1911. It housed youths between the ages of 11 and 23, and it forced the boys to labor in nearby coal mines. Living conditions were cramped, dilapidated, and unsanitary. It changed names several times over the decades, but all along maintianed a cemetery for boys who died there. The total number of graves, including those that have gone unmarked, is unknown.Samira Hardcastle resigned after her school’s administration ordered her to change a student’s grade, and not give them a zero for a late assignment.Producer: Catherine SweeneyEditor: Megan Jones"

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Abortion backers notch court win — and point to brawl with AG over documents

Ode to Joy (Oladokun), whose new album is no light affair

Across the country, youth prisons are closing. Tennessee is building more.

Nashvillager Podcast: The Nashville Symphony’s new financial crisis

‘They’re putting kids’ lives at risk’: How abuse in a Tennessee businessman’s juvenile prisons remained under wraps

This Is Nashville