It’s been a dizzying few weeks in the public records case before Davidson County Chancellor I’Ashea Myles. For more than a year now, Myles has been considering whether the public records law requires the Metro Nashville Police Department to release files from its investigation into The Covenant School shooting. Six people were killed, including three […]
Nashville collectively sorrowed on March 27, 2023, and in the days and weeks following the events of that horrific morning. Almost immediately, thousands of decorations in The Covenant School’s colors bloomed on mailboxes, doors, and poles, many accompanied by signs proclaiming, “I stand with Covenant.” And we did. The tragedy of those six lives having […]
On March 27, Covenant School families will join alongside Tennessee families touched by firearm tragedy and community advocates to take part in an event that is both familiar and emotional, heartfelt and hopeful, public and yet still deeply private. We’ll join together and link arms in a 4-mile line stretching from Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s […]
On March 27, 2023, the Nashville community forever changed when a mass shooter killed six people at a private Christian school, marking the deadliest school shooting in Tennessee history. The year that followed saw vigils, rallies and cries for stricter gun control as demonstrators flooded the state Capitol. State lawmakers expelled two members before battling […]
The Tennessean recently published stories about the impact of The Covenant School murders. It was a painful, powerful and heartbreaking account shared by those involved. Our hearts go out to the victims of such trauma. Now that we have a public recounting of the emotional carnage and the dialogue of loss, grief and trauma in the […]
St. Paul Public Schools this week moved to address a racial covenant discovered on the deed of one of the district’s properties. Language in documents for a district-owned property in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood restricts sales to whites only. It’s been unenforceable for over half a century under fair housing law, but school board members voted […]